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Description: Frontispiece of John Essex's treatise on choreography and the art of dancing country dances, published 1710 in London entitled For the Further Improvement of Dancing. The first English exposition of a dance notation it was translated from the French work Recueil de contredances mises en chorégraphie by Raoul-Auger Feuillet, of 1659 or 60.
Title: John Essex Dance frontispiece
Credit: Library of Congress dance instruction manuals at http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/musdibib:@field(NUMBER+@band(musdi+069))
Author: I. Walsh & P. Randall ... I. Hare ... I. Culen ... & by John Essex..,
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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