Lettres sur La Danse, et sur Les Ballets ... Maitre des Ballets de Son Altesse Serenissime Monseigneur le Duc de Wurtemberg, & ci - devant des Theatres de Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Londres, &c.
Lyon: Chez Aime Delarouche, Imprimeur-Libraire duGouvernement & de la Ville, aux Halles de la Grenette 1760. [3], 484 pages. 8vo. 10 x 17 cm. Period calf gilt with raised bands and red spine label "Noverre Sur La Danse". Page edges spotted red. Portions of silk ribbon present. Lower few inches front and rear joints cracked. A few stains to boards, wear to the corners and extremities. Marbled endpapers, flyleaves browned. Generally bright and clean internally. A good copy. Text in French. Avec Approbation et Priviledge du Roi. Good. Boards. [27409]
"The dancer and choreographer Jean-Georges Noverre's 'Letters on dancing and ballets' were first published in 1760, and set forth his ideas for the reform of ballet, ideas which were considered revolutionary in their day and were not fully implemented until more than a century later. 'Letters on Dancing and Ballets' is one of the most important dance books ever published, and through its influence Noverre can be seen as the grandfather of ballet as we know it today. The present translation was made by the great dance historian Cyril W. Beaumont, and first published by him in book form in 1930." (from the 2004 Dance Books printing of the English language edition).
Price: $750.00