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Book/Printed MaterialThe Ball-room instructer [sic]; containing a complete description of cotillons and other popular dances, with illustrations
Ball-room instructer | Ball-room instructor 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...- Date: 1841
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