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- catalog abstract "To demonstrate the authority of this manual, the publisher claims the author to be American inventor, Elias Howe. Similar to many other dance manuals published throughout the nineteenth century, this book is a publisher's compilation of other sources. The book begins with a description of ballroom etiquette, dress, appropriate music, and rules for prompters. The manual continues with discussion of the era's most popular dances including quadrilles, waltz, polka, schottisch, gorlitza, polka mazurka, country dances, and figures for forty-two "French Fancy Cotillons," (also known as the cotillon or German), a group dance performed as a series of party games, usually to waltz music.".
- catalog alternative "Complete ball-room hand book".
- catalog contributor b11149514.
- catalog contributor b11149515.
- catalog contributor b11149516.
- catalog coverage "United States Massachusetts Boston.".
- catalog created "c1858.".
- catalog date "1858".
- catalog date "c1858.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1858.".
- catalog description "To demonstrate the authority of this manual, the publisher claims the author to be American inventor, Elias Howe. Similar to many other dance manuals published throughout the nineteenth century, this book is a publisher's compilation of other sources. The book begins with a description of ballroom etiquette, dress, appropriate music, and rules for prompters. The manual continues with discussion of the era's most popular dances including quadrilles, waltz, polka, schottisch, gorlitza, polka mazurka, country dances, and figures for forty-two "French Fancy Cotillons," (also known as the cotillon or German), a group dance performed as a series of party games, usually to waltz music.".
- catalog extent "118 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Available also through the Library of Congress Web site in twoforms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Available also through the Library of Congress Web site in twoforms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML.".
- catalog issued "1858".
- catalog issued "c1858.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Oliver Ditson & Co. ; New York : C.H. Ditson & Co.,".
- catalog relation "Available also through the Library of Congress Web site in twoforms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML.".
- catalog spatial "United States Massachusetts Boston.".
- catalog subject "Ballroom dancing.".
- catalog subject "GV1751 .H86 1858a".
- catalog title "Complete ball-room hand book".
- catalog title "Howe's complete ball-room hand book : containing upwards of three hundred dances ... : with elegant illustrations ... and rules on deportment and the toilet, and the etiquette of dancing / by Elias Howe, assisted by several eminent professors of dancing.".
- catalog type "text".