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Orchesography, or, the Art of Dancing The Art of Dancing by Characters and Demonstrative Figures

John Weaver · Public domain text

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Orchesography, or, the Art of Dancing The Art of Dancing by Characters and Demonstrative Figures

ORCHESOGRAPHY.

OR, THE

ART OF DANCING,

BY

Characters and Demonstrative Figures.

WHEREIN

The whole Art is explain'd; with compleat Tables of all Steps us'd in Dancing, and Rules for the Motions of the Arms

WHEREBY

Any person (who understands Dancing) may of himself learn all manner of Dances.

BEING

An Exact and Just Translation from the French of Monsieur Feuillet.

By JOHN WEAVER, Dancing-Master.

Pars pedibus plaudant Choreas,----Virg. Aenid. 6.

LONDON: Printed by H. Meere, at the Black Fryars, for the Author, and are to be sold by P.Valliant, French Bookseller near Catherine-Street, in the Strand. 1706.

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