The art of dancing explained by reading and figures : whereby the manner of performing the steps is made easy by a new and familiar method / being the original work, first design'd in the year 1724/ and now published by Kellom Tomlinson, dancing-master ; in two books
- Author:
- Tomlinson, Kellom
- Additional Titles:
- Art of dancing explain'd
- Published:
- London : Printed for the author, and are to be had of him, at the Red and Gold Flower Pot next door to Edward's Coffee-House, over against the Bull and Gate, in High-Holbourn, 1735.
- Physical Description:
- [24], [3]-159 pages, [1] page, [37] plates : illustrations, music ; 30 x 23 cm
Online Version
- Restrictions on Access:
- Free-to-read Unrestricted online access
- Summary:
- The title page indicates the book was completed in 1724. However, the cost of the thirty-five full-page plates precluded publication until 1735. In this treatise of two parts, Tomlinson (c. 1690-1753?) sets forth the principles of Baroque dance. Book one covers description of twenty nine steps; book two discusses the minuet, including four methods of performing the minuet step.
- Subject(s):
- Collection:
- Mary Ann O'Brian Malkin Dance Collection, 1531-1804.
- Note:
- Contains frontispiece of Tomlinson.
Many of the plates contain tunes for the dances which they illustrate. - Other Forms:
- Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Rare Books copy: Gift of Mary Ann O?Brian Malkin, 2003/4.
- Reviewed/Cited In:
- Malkin, M.A.O. Dancing by the book (2003), 125
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