Reglas utiles para los aficionados a danzar
Subtitle: provechoso divertimento de los que gustan tocar instrumentos : y polyticas advertencias a todo genero de personas : adornado con varias laminas : dedicado a la S.M. del Rey de las dos Sicilias, &c
By: su author D. Bartholome Ferriol y Boxeraus, unico authòr en este idioma de todos los diferentes passos de la danza francesa ; con su brazèo correspondiente, chorographia, amable, contradanzas, &c
Contributors: Guarini, Antonio; Testore, Joseph, bookseller; Edwin Binney 3rd Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: A costa de Joseph Testore, mercader de libros, à la Calle Nueva
Published: 1745
Place of publication: Capoa
Language: spa; ita
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Dance; Early works to 1800; Dance music
Notes: One of several different issues with variant subtitle, imprint, and preliminaries.  Issues are known with Capoa, Napoles, and Malaga as place of publication, and with the preliminaries as [16], [20], or [32] p., with variant contents.  There are also variant states with different sequences of misnumbered pages.  Cf. Palau y Dulcet, Little & Marsh, BL Spanish, 18th cent.

All of the issues were probably printed in Málaga.

Signatures: [par.]⁸ A-Q⁸ R⁴(R4+chi1) S⁴ T² V⁸ X⁴.

Pages 265-278 (R(chi1), S⁴ T²) are on folded leaves; gatherings S and T were imposed in oblong 4to format.

The ill., music, and dance notation are all printed from woodcuts.

Commendatory poem in Italian, by Antonio Guarini, on p. [16] (1st count).

BL Spanish, 18th cent., F105a

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.), 90688n

Derra de Moroda, F.  Dance library, 925

Little & Marsh.  Danse noble, 1745-Fer

RISM B/VI, p. 313.