Critical observations on the art of dancing
Subtitle: to which is added, A collection of cotillons or French dances
By: by Giovanni-Andrea Gallini.
Contributors: Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764, bookseller.; Becket, Thomas, bookseller.; De Hondt, P. A. bookseller.; Dixwell, James, d. 1788, bookseller.; Bremner, Robert, d. 1789, bookseller.; Gallini, Giovanni-Andrea, 1728-1805.
Publisher: Printed for the author and sold by R. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; T. Becket, and P.A. DeHondt, in the Strand; J. Dixwell, in St. Martin's-Lane, near Charing-Cross and at Mr. Bremner's Music Shop, opposite Somerset-House, in the Strand
Published: 1770
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Dance.; Quadrille (Dance); Cotillions.
Other titles: Art of dancing
Notes: ESTC (RLIN) N56752
Contains music.
"A new collection of forty-four cotillons, with figures properly adapted, also, the music for six select dances, two of which may be used as cotillons," has special t.p., separate pagination and signatures (10 p., [48] p., [54] leaves of plates). The musical scores are engraved on one side of each leaf (frequently alternating between recto of one leaf, verso of the next) and are unnumbered.
Dedicated "to Her Grace the Duchess of Hamilton and Argyle."
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Includes index.