Dance Laborde Fl 1820 1850 (1 results)

Oblong folio. Original publisher's decorative textured paper boards. 1f. (title within decorative floral border gilt), [iv] (preface and introduction) + 15 lithographic plates + 19 pp. text explaining the steps with illustrative diagrams + [i] (blank) pp. With 15 attractive lithographic plates on dark ivory ground, most with tissue guards, illustrating couples performing various dances, titled as follows: Salon des Cours de Mr. Laborde after A. Faivre; Les Fleurs; Les Ronds, No. 3; Les deux Dames présentées; Le Coussin; L'Eventail; Le Colin Maillard assis; Le Chapeau; Le Mouchoir; Les 4 Coins assis; Les Ronds, No. 1; Le Moulinet; Les bras levés; Le Rond; and Le Rond déployé. Binding slightly worn and soiled; some spotting to margins; joints tender; contemporary signature to front pastedown endpaper partially erased. Foxing throughout, primarily to blank margins of illustrative plates. Another edition of the present work was published in Paris by Heugel at about this same time with seven pages of music for the dances described.…