The Ball-room instructer [sic];  containing a complete description of cotillons and other popular dances, with illustrations. 
 Ball-room instructer  Ball-room instructor 

 - New York,  Huestis & Craft,  1841. 
 - 46 p.  incl. front., illus.  13 cm. 
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<br/><br/> This manual, small enough to fit into a pocket, declares that it contains "all the information which is interesting to the world of dancing" [p. 5]. In fact, like many nineteenth-century dance manuals, the text is heavily borrowed from numerous sources and compiled by a publisher. Its format is common for this type of manual. It begins with a discussion on etiquette followed by a description of quadrilles--popular group dances performed by four couples facing in a square. Although the waltz was a staple of the mid-nineteenth-century ballroom, it is not discussed in this manual. 
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<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>ca 05001761  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ballroom dancing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.<br/>Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GV1763  / .B18