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
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.
Notes: Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text.
The frontispiece is dated 1754.
Many of the plates contain tunes for the dances which they illustrate.