The Art of Dancing Explained by Reading and Figures; 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, and now Published [SECOND EDITION] by Kellom Tomlinson, Dancing-Master. In Two Books (Tomlinson, London 1744)

Dance manual/reference by Kellom Tomlinson, Dancing-Master (c.1690-1753) / Printed for the AUTHOR at his House the Red and Gold Flower Pot in Great Ormond-street, the End next Lamb's-Conduit, London / MDCCXLIV. Source: Biblioteca Nacional de Espana scan (DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1744-Tomlinson-Art_of_Dancing_(BNE).txt, 1,772 lines OCR). SECOND EDITION of Tomlinson's theoretical-pedagogical treatise (first ed. London 1735, LOC-1735-TOMLINSON). STRUCTURE: (Book I) Positions, Bows and Courtesies, and ALL the Steps used in Genteel Dancing as well as Stage — Coupee (one Movement / two Movements), Bouree-Step or Fleuret (with Bound / with two Movements / with one Movement / before and behind advancing in whole Turn / double / upon the same place), Galliard-Step and Falling-Step, Close on both Feet, Hop, Rigadoon-Step of one Spring / two Springs, Chaconne or Passacaille Step, Slip; illustrated with sixteen Copper Plates containing twenty-nine Figures. (Book II) The Minuet in its whole Form, from Reverence/Bow through fourteen plates of twenty-eight Figures (gentleman and lady in pairs) dancing the Minuet. Concludes with 'Instructions concerning Country Dances' at the Request of 'some Persons of Quality'. The whole Work is adorned with thirty-seven Copper Plates containing fifty-seven Figures. Plates A, E, I, O, U contain all the Steps described in the Treatise written in Beauchamp-Feuillet Characters. ROSETTA VALUE: 1744 edition re-attests Tomlinson's own 1715-1728 theatrical compositions (Passepied Round O, Shepherdess, Submission, Prince Eugene, Address, Gavot, Passacaille Diana) and provides running-example cross-references to L'Abbe's Royal George + Princess Amelia + Princess Royal, Pecour's Spanish Entree (Opera de l'Europe Galante) + Entree Espagnole, and Isaac's Pastoral Dance + The Union + The Richmond + the Rigadoon of the late Mr. Isaac (= H-BAR-RIG-F0002 Rigadoon Royal, 1711). Also gives the canonical 1744 step-theory for The Louvre Dance (H-BAR-MIN-F0001) and The French Bretagne (H-BAR-GAV-F0001). PREVIOUSLY-UNATTESTED DANCES introduced as running examples: Princess Ann by Mr. Siris (Gavot-starting-odd-notes example), Hunting Song by Tomlinson (cited among triple-time Forlane examples implicitly), Paftepied Round-examples. Has_Step_Detail=Partial (step-theoretical prose is step-level throughout Book I; minuet plates are figure-level in Book II). (1744). Imported from local collection.