Canadian Ten Cent Ball-Room Companion, and Guide to Dancing: comprising rules of etiquette, hints on private parties, toilettes for the ball-room, etc.; also a synopsis of round and square dances, dictionary of French terms, etc. (Wm. Warwick, Toronto, 1871)

Dance manual/reference by Wm. Warwick, Publisher, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 1871. Source: archive.org identifier cihm_01094 (Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions / ICMH — Canadiana.org microform scan). VERIFIED-CLONE relationship: this is a DIRECT CANADIAN REPRINT of Beadle & Company's 'Beadle's Dime Ball-Room Companion and Guide to Dancing' (98 William Street, New York, 1868 — already in corpus as LOC-1868-BEADLE). The running head 'THE DIME BALL-ROOM COMPANION' is preserved on every page of the Warwick printing, the TOC is byte-identical, and the content — including the four alternate Plain Quadrille Finale substitutes (Jig/Cheat/Basket/Star) — carries over verbatim from the 1868 US original. This qualifies as a year-over-year syllabus clone pass (cf. NDCA-24 / Rosetta pattern). Contents: Etiquette (arrangements, private parties, the parlour, music, refreshments, ladies' toilettes, gentlemen's dress, the guests, masquerades, promenade concerts, sociables, order of dancing, special rules of conduct); French terms used in dancing; Square Dances: Plain Quadrille (First/Second/Third/Fourth/Fifth Figure) with alternate Plain Quadrille Finale substitutes — the Jig Figure, the Cheat Figure, the Basket Figure, and the Star Figure; Double Quadrille (Coulon's); the Nine Pin; the Lanciers (5 figures); the Caledonians (5 figures); the Prince Imperial (mentioned as 'new form of Parisian origin... affected at dancing academies, but has failed to secure popular favor' — described as rarely given); the Virginia Reel / Sir Roger de Coverley; the Spanish Dance; La Tempête; Round Dances: the Waltz a Trois Temps (old waltz); Waltz in Double Time (Valse a Deux Temps — 'Autocrat of the Ball-Room'); Cellarius or Mazourka Waltz; the Schottische; the Polka; the Galop; Redowa; Polka Redowa; Esmerelda (noted as 'almost obsolete in fashionable circles' by 1871); Danish Polka; the Varsoviana. Historical value: fills the Toronto / English-Canadian ballroom gap between LACASSE-18 (Québec francophone tradition) and the American mid-19c corpus (LOC-1868-BEADLE, LOC-1862-HOWE, LOC-1863-HILLGROVE, LOC-1865-DEGARMO). Extends the corpus chronologically to pre-Confederation/early-Confederation English-Canadian Ontario (1871) and attests that the US dime-book ballroom genre crossed the border essentially unchanged in the post-Confederation period. (1871). Imported from local collection.