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Title

  • Prof. Clendenen's fashionable quadrille book and guide to etiquette

Other Title

  • Fashionable quadrille call book and guide to etiquette
  • Professor Clendenen's fashionable quadrille book and guide to etiquette

Summary

  • Quoting extensively from L.H. Elmwell's 1892 dance manual, this treatise is aimed at prompters of quadrilles. The manual includes a brief explanation of quadrille figures and etiquette (with emphasis on etiquette while performing quadrilles). Quadrille figures are included with appropriate calls for the prompter.

Names

  • Clendenen, F. Leslie (Frank Leslie), 1864-1940

Created / Published

  • Davenport, Ia., F.L. Clendenen [c1895]

Headings

  • -  Quadrille (Dance)--Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • -  Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals
  • -  Prompting Quadrilles

Notes

  • -  Cover title.
  • -  LC copy imperfect: cover wanting.

Medium

  • 1 p.l., 62 p. 15 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1767 .C62 1895

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 05029176

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Clendenen, F. Leslie. Prof. Clendenen's fashionable quadrille book and guide to etiquette. [Davenport, Ia., F.L. Clendenen, 1895] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/05029176/.

APA citation style:

Clendenen, F. L. (1895) Prof. Clendenen's fashionable quadrille book and guide to etiquette. [Davenport, Ia., F.L. Clendenen] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/05029176/.

MLA citation style:

Clendenen, F. Leslie. Prof. Clendenen's fashionable quadrille book and guide to etiquette. [Davenport, Ia., F.L. Clendenen, 1895] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/05029176/>.