Add to ORKGThis small, pocketsize manual is attributed to American inventor Elias Howe; however, a publisher assembled it. Even though the manual itself is small in size, it manages to pack in a thorough discussion of etiquette of the ballroom and supper room, the differences between public balls and private parties, and how to call quadrilles or cotillons. Descriptions are included for numerous dances including the polka, waltz, schottisch, quadrille, and contra dance
The author of this manual claims that many books on dance lack simple explanations; this work is adv...
This manual is a compilation of previously published materials. The guide begins with a brief descri...
The format for this manual is typical of nineteenth-century dance treatises. It begins with a short ...
This is one of several manuals credited to the well-known American inventor, Elias Howe. Like many n...
This is a compilation by Dick and Fitzgerald of previously published sources on ballroom dance. Alth...
This manual, small enough to fit into a pocket, declares that it contains "all the information which...
This manual begins, as do others of the period, with a general introduction that covers the necessit...
This manual is typical of books that were assembled by publishers to be disseminated to a broad mass...
A translation of La danse des salons (1847), this manual provides important information on mid-ninet...
Like many other nineteenth-century dance manuals, much of the material in The ball-room guide is not...
Like many other nineteenth-century dance manuals, much of the material in The prompter comes from pr...
The publisher of this tiny manual (called a "vest pocket edition") notes that of the many books avai...
This manual is a compilation of previously published materials and includes standard advice on etiqu...
Like other nineteenth-century dance manuals, this is a compilation of earlier writings. The book pro...
Foreshadowing the growing trend of late nineteenth-century dance manuals to reduce discussion on eti...
The author of this manual claims that many books on dance lack simple explanations; this work is adv...
This manual is a compilation of previously published materials. The guide begins with a brief descri...
The format for this manual is typical of nineteenth-century dance treatises. It begins with a short ...
This is one of several manuals credited to the well-known American inventor, Elias Howe. Like many n...
This is a compilation by Dick and Fitzgerald of previously published sources on ballroom dance. Alth...
This manual, small enough to fit into a pocket, declares that it contains "all the information which...
This manual begins, as do others of the period, with a general introduction that covers the necessit...
This manual is typical of books that were assembled by publishers to be disseminated to a broad mass...
A translation of La danse des salons (1847), this manual provides important information on mid-ninet...
Like many other nineteenth-century dance manuals, much of the material in The ball-room guide is not...
Like many other nineteenth-century dance manuals, much of the material in The prompter comes from pr...
The publisher of this tiny manual (called a "vest pocket edition") notes that of the many books avai...
This manual is a compilation of previously published materials and includes standard advice on etiqu...
Like other nineteenth-century dance manuals, this is a compilation of earlier writings. The book pro...
Foreshadowing the growing trend of late nineteenth-century dance manuals to reduce discussion on eti...
The author of this manual claims that many books on dance lack simple explanations; this work is adv...
This manual is a compilation of previously published materials. The guide begins with a brief descri...
The format for this manual is typical of nineteenth-century dance treatises. It begins with a short ...