La Danse et les Ballets, depuis Bacchus jusqu'à Mademoiselle Taglioni

by François H.J. Castil-Blaze 

In French.  Paris:  Paulin, [1832] 

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition.

• Marbled covers half bound in dark brown morocco. 
• Boards show some edgewear, traces of tape at low spine.  Corners are scuffed, with exposed board.  See photos.  
• Spine has raised bands and gilt text and is scuffed with firm ends.
• Custom binding is strong. 
• Marble end papers/ pastedowns have remnants of a label inside back cover, pencil notes at front feps. 
• Ex libris Theodore S. Bartwink; bookplate on front pastedown.
• Interior exhibits moderate to heavy foxing.  See photos. 
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges are foxed. 
• PS2024.0814

370 pages. 4 x 6.75 inches

A scarce copy, in custom binding, of this standard reference work on dance by the French ballet critic François H.J. Castil-Blaze (1784-1857).  Crisp and very readable, notwithstanding the foxing which is heavy in places.  

From the early 1820s to 1832 Castil-Blaze's writings in the Journal des débats made him the leading ballet critic in Paris.  Several of his works became standard reference works, among them the present volume.

Ex-Libris Theodore S. Bartwink (1928-2014), longtime Executive Director of th Harkness Foundation for Dance in New York City.  

Printed in Paris at the Imprimerie de Pommeret et Moreau. 

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