The 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 : being the original work, first design'd in the year 1724
By: and now published by Kellom Tomlinson, dancing-master ; in two books
Contributors: Van der Gucht, John, 1697- engraver; Haecken, Arnold van, ill; Seale, Richard William, engraver; Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?, engraver; King, George, active approximately 1732-1740, engraver; Vertue, George, 1684-1756, engraver; Fletcher, Henry, active 1715-1738, engraver; Edwin Binney 3rd Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Edition: The second edition.
Publisher: Printed for the author ...
Published: 1744
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Dance; Handbooks, manuals; Early works to 1800; Minuet (Dance); Dance notation
Other titles: Art of dancing explain'd
Description: 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.
Notes: A reissue of the sheets to the 1735 ed., with new title page.

Signatures: [superscript pi][A]² chi² B⁴ b⁴, A⁴(-A1) B-U⁴; in some copies A3 is missigned 'B2'.

The plates are engraved by R.W. Seale, G. Vandergucht, J. Smith, I. Clark, G. Bickham, G. King, G. Vertue, and H. Fletcher after designs by Tomlinson and A. van Haecken.

Many of the plates contain tunes for the dances which they illustrate.

"A list of the subscribers names" (i.e. to the 1735 ed.): p. [9]-[12] (1st count).

ESTC N16440