TY  - BOOK
TI  - The Ball-room instructer [sic]: containing a complete description of cotillons and other popular dances, with illustrations
AV  - GV1763 .B18
PY  - 1841///
CY  - New York
PB  - Huestis & Craft
KW  - Ballroom dancing
KW  - Handbooks, manuals, etc
KW  - Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals
N1  - Source: Source unknown; Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text
N2  - 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
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.225
ER  -