art of dancing explained by reading and figures
Subtitle: whereby the manner of performing the steps is made easy by a new and familiar method
By: being the original work, first design'd in the year 1724, and now published by Kellom Tomlinson, dancing-master ... In two books.
Publisher: Printed for the author
Published: 1735
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Dance -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Minuet (Dance) -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Early works to 1800.; Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Art of dancing explain'd
Description: 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.