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 (Tomlinson, London c.1720)

Dance manual/reference by Kellom Tomlinson (1693?-1753, London dancing-master). Printed for the Author at his house in Devonshire Street, the last but one on the Right Hand going to Queens-Square, by Ormond Street, London c.1720. Price of the Set: one Guinea and an Half. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1720c-Tomlinson-Six_(Gale).txt (Gale ECCO scan). CONTEXT: A self-published anthology gathering Tomlinson's six subscription-year dances (1715-1720) in a single bound collection, 15 years prior to his 1735 Art of Dancing treatise (LOC-1735-TOMLINSON, LOC-1744-TOMLINSON). Addresses a prefatory epistle 'To the Ladies' championing Beauchamp-Feuillet-style Orchesography (character-notation) as an instructional aid equal in value to music notation. STRUCTURE: (I) The Passepied Round O [1717, already H-BAR-VAR-F0028]; (II) The Shepherdess [1716, already H-BAR-VAR-F0029]; (III) The Submission [1717, performed at the Theatre in Little Lincoln's-Inn-Fields by Monsieur and Mademoiselle Salle, the Two French Children, already H-BAR-VAR-F0030]; (IV) The Prince Eugene [1718, already H-BAR-VAR-F0031]; (V) The Address [1719, already H-BAR-VAR-F0032]; (VI) The Gavot [1720, already H-BAR-GAV-F0014]. HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: (1) EARLIEST SELF-ANTHOLOGY among English Baroque dancing-masters -- Tomlinson's c.1720 Six Dances collection predates his own 1735 Art of Dancing treatise by 15 years and documents the transition of the annual-subscription-dance publishing model from isolated broadsides to bound collections. (2) SALLE-CHILDREN PERFORMANCE attestation: The Submission was performed at Little Lincoln's-Inn-Fields by Monsieur and Mademoiselle Salle (the Two French Children, Francis + Marie Salle), future prima-ballerina Marie Salle (1707-1756) dancing at perhaps age 10-13; earliest London-stage attestation of the Salle children before their 1725 Covent Garden engagement. (3) PRE-1735-TOMLINSON Rosetta-clone: all six dances are already canonical from the LOC-1735-TOMLINSON Preface re-listing; this 1720c anthology BACKDATES the published-edition attestation of the six dances from 1735 (Tomlinson Art of Dancing Preface listing) to 1715-1720 (individual plates + c.1720 bound anthology), establishing the 1715-1720 annual-subscription publication timeline. (4) PEDAGOGICAL-FEMINIST preface 'To the Ladies' advocating that women should learn Beauchamp-Feuillet character-notation reading, against 'the Prevalence of Custom which has hitherto deprived you of learning to dance by Book'. Has_Step_Detail = No at the anthology level -- individual dance plates are engraved in Feuillet character-notation (not transcribed at this pass). Zero new canonicals; 6 Rosetta appearances to existing Tomlinson canonicals, backdating all six from LOC-1735-TOMLINSON (1735) to their 1715-1720 original publication dates. (1720). Imported from local collection.