The Books of John Weaver

• Orchesography. Or, the Art of Dancing. 1st edition. (1706) [facsimile and transcription] (See Chorégraphie below)
• Orchesography. Or, the Art of Dancing. 2nd edition. (1715?, Library of Congress) [facsimile]
• A Small Treatise of Time and Cadence in Dancing. (1706) [facsimile]
• A collection of ball-dances performed at court (1706, Library of Congress) [facsimile]

Related Pages

• Chorégraphie, ou L'art de décrire la dance (Feuillet, in French) (1700, Library of Congress) [facsimile]
• Recüeil de contredanses (Feuillet, in French) (1706, Library of Congress) [facsimile]
• For the further improvement of dancing (John Essex's translation of Feuillet's Recüeil) (1710, Library of Congress) [facsimile]
• The Dancing-Master (John Essex's 1728 translation of Rameau's Le Maître à danser, 1725)

Related publication

A short scholarly biography of the 18th century dancing master, followed by discussions of his theatrical productions and publications, and facsimile reproductions of all of those published works that survive. 1100 pages. ISBN 0903102862 or 0871271397.

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