THE DANCE

_Historic Illustrations of Dancing
from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D._

BY
AN ANTIQUARY


LONDON
JOHN BALE, SONS & DANIELSSON, LTD.
83-91, GREAT TITCHFIELD STREET, OXFORD STREET, W

Respectfully dedicated
to Dr. Eleanor Maxwell.

1911




PREFACE.

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This sketch of the iconography of the dance does not pretend to be a
history of the subject, except in the most elementary way. It may be
taken as a summary of the history of posture; a complete dance cannot
be easily rendered in illustration.