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Six Dances compos'd by Mr. Kellom Tomlinson, being a Collection of all the Yearly Dances publish'd by him from the Year 1715 to the present Year, viz. I. The Passepied Round O; II. The Shepherdess; III. The Submission; IV. The Prince Eugene; V. The Address; VI. The Gavot (Tomlinson, London 1720)
Publisher: Kellom Tomlinson, Dancing-Master (b. c.1690 — d. 1753), at his house in Devonshire Street, the last but one on the Right Hand going to Queen's-Square, by Ormond Street, London / Printed in Beauchamp-Feuillet character notation. Price of the Set: one Guinea and an Half (individual dances 2s. 6d. to 5s.). Source: Gale ECCO, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, CW0106444153. A retrospective collected volume gathering six of Tomlinson's annual subscription dances published 1715-1720, each originally issued as a standalone plate with its own title page (Passepied Round O 1715, Shepherdess 1716, Submission 1717, Prince Eugene 1718, Address 1719, Gavot 1720). 'The Submission' was performed at the Theatre in Little Lincoln's-Inn-Fields by Monsieur and Mademoiselle Sallé, the 'Two French Children' who would become the celebrated adult dancers Marie and Francis Sallé. Tomlinson's 'To the Ladies' preface (at the head of the Passepied) argues for female access to choreographic notation: 'Twere pity this Art should be a Secret to you, Ladies, whose Favour and Encouragement have nourish'd it'. HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: Bridges Tomlinson's individual 1715-1720 subscription plates (which are lost or rare as stand-alone items) and his 1735 comprehensive 'Art of Dancing Explained by Reading and Figures'. Rosetta-stone appearance-source for canonical figures H-BAR-VAR-F0028 through F0032 and H-BAR-GAV-F0014.Year: 1720Family: tomlinsonCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Kellom Tomlinson, Dancing-Master (b. c.1690 — d. 1753), at his house in Devonshire Street, the last but one on the Right Hand going to Queen's-Square, by Ormond Street, London / Printed in Beauchamp-Feuillet character notation. Price of the Set: one Guinea and an Half (individual dances 2s. 6d. to 5s.). Source: Gale ECCO, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, CW0106444153. A retrospective collected volume gathering six of Tomlinson's annual subscription dances published 1715-1720, each originally issued as a standalone plate with its own title page (Passepied Round O 1715, Shepherdess 1716, Submission 1717, Prince Eugene 1718, Address 1719, Gavot 1720). 'The Submission' was performed at the Theatre in Little Lincoln's-Inn-Fields by Monsieur and Mademoiselle Sallé, the 'Two French Children' who would become the celebrated adult dancers Marie and Francis Sallé. Tomlinson's 'To the Ladies' preface (at the head of the Passepied) argues for female access to choreographic notation: 'Twere pity this Art should be a Secret to you, Ladies, whose Favour and Encouragement have nourish'd it'. HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: Bridges Tomlinson's individual 1715-1720 subscription plates (which are lost or rare as stand-alone items) and his 1735 comprehensive 'Art of Dancing Explained by Reading and Figures'. Rosetta-stone appearance-source for canonical figures H-BAR-VAR-F0028 through F0032 and H-BAR-GAV-F0014. (1720). Imported from local collection.