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For the Further Improvement of Dancing, a Treatise of Chorography, or the Art of Dancing Country Dances after a new character, wherein the Figures, Steps, & Manner of Performing are described, & the Rules demonstrated in an Easie Method adapted to the meanest Capacity. Translated from the French of Mons. Feuillet, and now this improved second edition is added a Collection of Country Dances, composed & written in the same Character by John Essex, Dancing Master (Essex/Feuillet, London 1710)
Publisher: John Essex (English dancing-master, d. 1744) / translated from Raoul-Auger Feuillet's Recueil de Contredanses mises en Choregraphie (Paris 1…Year: 1710
The first English guide to writing country dances in Feuillet notation, with Essex's own choreographed dances.