TY  - BOOK
AU  - Washburn,Harrison Gray Otis
AU  - Cottrell,George W.
AU  - Quimby,William Henry
ED  - Miniature Book Collection (Library of Congress)
TI  - The ball-room manual of contra dances and social cotillons,: with remarks on quadrilles and Spanish dance
AV  - GV1767 .B3
PY  - 1863///
CY  - Belfast, Me., Boston
PB  - H. G. O. Washburn, G. W. Cottrell
KW  - Ballroom dancing
KW  - Handbooks, manuals, etc
KW  - Miniature books
KW  - Specimens
KW  - Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals
N1  - Introduction signed: W. H. Q; Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text
N2  - The publisher of this tiny manual (called a "vest pocket edition") notes that of the many books available to the dancing public, few contain "the good old contra dances of our ancestors." To remedy the situation, the manual gives figures for fifty-six English country dances, group dances consisting of figures performed by a column of men facing a column of women
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.011
ER  -