THE ADVANTAGES OF DANCING
The Polite Academy, or school of behaviour for Young Gentlemen and Ladies. Intended as a Foundation for good Manners and polite Address, in Masters and Misses...
London.
Printed for R. Baldwin...and B. Collins, 1762.
12mo.
xxxvi, 108pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further eight engraved plates, of 12. Without three plates. Contemporary calf-backed vellum-tipped marbled paper boards, paper label with title in manuscript to upper board. Small hole and remnant of early ownership inscription to front blank fly-leaf, pen-trials to RFEP.
A rare survival, albeit slightly defective, of an extended edition of a compilation of instructions for 'agreeable behaviour and polite address' in young ladies and gentlemen.
First published in 1758, the book is based on François Nivelon's Rudiments of genteel behaviour (1737). This edition was the first to include a short treatise on the 'real use and advantages of dancing', which quotes liberally from Gallini's Treatise on the art of dancing published the same year.
ESTC records copies at just four locations (BL, California, North Carolina, and Trinity College Dublin).
First published in 1758, the book is based on François Nivelon's Rudiments of genteel behaviour (1737). This edition was the first to include a short treatise on the 'real use and advantages of dancing', which quotes liberally from Gallini's Treatise on the art of dancing published the same year.
ESTC records copies at just four locations (BL, California, North Carolina, and Trinity College Dublin).
ESTC T141024.
£ 450.00
Antiquates Ref: 28464