01527cam a22002531  4500001001300000003000400013005001700017007001500034008004100049010001700090040001800107050001700125245013000142246002500272246002500297260003900322300004000361500003300401520058900434530010001023650004701123650004501170856005801215ca 05001761 DLC20260227111041.0cr |||||||||||781018s1841    nyua          000 0 eng    aca 05001761   aDLCcDLCdDLC00aGV1763b.B1804aThe Ball-room instructer [sic];bcontaining a complete description of cotillons and other popular dances, with illustrations.3 aBall-room instructer3 aBall-room instructor  aNew York,bHuestis & Craft,c1841.  a46 p.bincl. front., illus.c13 cm.  aSource: Source unknown.5DLC  aThis 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.  aAvailable also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text. 0aBallroom dancingvHandbooks, manuals, etc. 4aDance Instruction and Technical Manuals.41dmusdif225uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.225qs