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Book/Printed Material The ball-room guide. With coloured plates Added t.-p. (illustrated in colors): Ball-room companion

About this Item

Title

  • The ball-room guide. With coloured plates

Other Title

  • Added t.-p. (illustrated in colors): Ball-room companion

Summary

  • Like many other nineteenth-century dance manuals, much of the material in The ball-room guide is not original but borrowed from other sources. The manual opens with discussion on the arrangements for balls, appropriate dress for ladies and gentlemen, and thirteen pages of etiquette. Various dances are described including quadrilles, the waltz, varsoviana, polka and three group dances, "The Spanish Dance," "Tempête," and "Sir Roger de Coverly." The manual concludes with a glossary of terminology used in ballroom dance.

Names

  • Miniature Book Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • London, F. Warne and Co., 1866.

Headings

  • -  Ballroom dancing--Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • -  Balls (Parties)
  • -  Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals

Notes

  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text.
  • -  LAC ael 2022-03-24 no edits (1 card)
  • -  LAC rwp 2019-07-09 review
  • -  LAC sba 2022-03-02 update (1 card)
  • -  LAC seg 2022-02-24 update (1 card)
  • -  LAC tnb 2019-07-03 update (1 card)
  • -  LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2019-07-17

Medium

  • 2 p.l., [iii]-iv, [5]-96 p. col. front. 9 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1746 .B27
  • GV1746 .B26
  • Warne's Bijou books

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 43035739

Online Format

  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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The accompanying videos were produced by the Library of Congress. Note Video Performers for additional credits for video performers.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, Music Division.

Video Performers

Performers for the October 1997 Great Hall event: Dancers

Members of The Jonquil Street Foundation, Inc. Ariane Anthony, Thomas Baird, Barbara Barr, Patricia Beaman, Christopher Caines, Charles Garth, James Martin, Maris Wolff. Musicians - members of The Library of Congress Centennial Cotillion Brass Band, Emerson Head and Robert Sheldon, Leaders (Members, Metro Washington D.C. Federation of Musicians Local 161-710, AFM.)

Performers for the Coolidge Auditorium clips: Dancers

Cheryl Stafford and Thomas Baird. Musicians - Boris Gurevitch (piano), Susan Manus (violin).

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Chicago citation style:

Miniature Book Collection. The ball-room guide. With coloured plates. London, F. Warne and Co, 1866. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/43035739/.

APA citation style:

Miniature Book Collection. (1866) The ball-room guide. With coloured plates. London, F. Warne and Co. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/43035739/.

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Miniature Book Collection. The ball-room guide. With coloured plates. London, F. Warne and Co, 1866. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/43035739/>.