BLASIS, Carlo (1795-1878) Traité elémentaire, théorique et pratique de l'art de la danse. Contenant les développemens, et les démonstrations des principes généraux et particuliers, qui doivent guider le danseur. - Milano, Beati e Tenenti, 1820
8vo. Recently rebound with early decorative boards. With 14 engr. plates (one double-page). (14), 124 pp.; a good and attractive copy.
First edition of the first comprehensive book of dancing technique, as it is understood today, to appear in print. Blasis was director of the Dance Academy of the Scala Theatre in Milan, and his work influenced ballet academies and teachers throughout the world. Lipperheide 3093. Derra de Moroda 390. DBI X, 786-789.
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