Howe's Drawing-Room Dances — Especially Designed for Social Evening Parties; Containing all the Popular and Fashionable Quadrilles, Cotillons, Fancy Dances, Contra Dances, &c. (Elias Howe, Boston, 1859; Oliver Ditson & Co. 277 Washington Street imprint)

Dance manual/reference by Elias Howe / Oliver Ditson & Co., 277 Washington Street, Boston (copyright originally 1840 per Act of Congress; 1859 Ditson imprint edition). Richard Powers collection (POWERS/ABBYY TXT/1859HowesDrawingRoomDances.txt — 616 lines OCR). Ditson was the largest American music publisher of the mid-19th century; Howe was the foremost Boston compiler of dance and music instruction books. Contents: Quadrilles or Cotillons and Contra Dances introduction with set diagrams (Single Quadrille / Double Quadrille / Circular form for Spanish Dance and Country Dances); Lancers Quadrilles (as danced in Boston); Crown Diamonds Quadrilles; La Part du Diable Quadrilles; Victoria Sett of Waltz Quadrilles; Alice Sett of Waltz Quadrilles; Trovatore Quadrilles; Maritana Quadrilles; Military Quadrille; Soiree Quadrille; Celestia Waltz Quadrille; Eugenia Waltz Quadrille; Victoria's Court Quadrille; Coquette Quadrille; Punch and Judy Quadrille; Sociables Quadrille; Bohemian Quadrille; Caledonian's Quadrille; Piccolomini Quadrilles No.1 & No.2; Star Quadrille; Polka Quadrilles No.1 & No.2; Military Polka Quadrille; Family Circle Polka Quadrille; Social Polka Quadrille; Parlor Schottische Quadrille; May Flower Quadrille; Lenore Polka Quadrille. Waltzes/Polkas/Schottisches: Pas Styrien Waltz, Silver Lake, Spanish Waltz, Lucerne, Orlando's, Henry's, Minnehaha, Minuet Redowa, Hop Waltz, Nicholson's Waltz, 30+ named polkas (La Favorita, Maritana, Don Jose, La Gitana, Julien, Virginia Reel, Louisville, Lenore, Mayflower, Adelaide Polka Redowa, etc.); multiple Schottisches (Diamond, National, Flying Cloud, Emblem, St. Lawrence, May Flower, Alice, Cally, Rose, Brussels); Polka Mazurka; Varsoviana; Cellarius Waltz; Two Step Waltz; Polish Mazurka; Polka Step; Spanish Dance (p.91). Historical value: first-corpus Oliver Ditson / Howe Boston imprint bridging the 1840s-1860s American ball-room canon; strong pre-Hillgrove/pre-Howe1862 attestations of the Polka-era waltz quadrille and schottische quadrille traditions; documents the mid-Victorian American polka-nomenclature explosion (30+ named polkas) distinct from the 20-polka London-tradition (Coulon 1844). Has_Step_Detail=Partial: section-level call-and-figure notation with limited per-step footwork annotation. (1859). Imported from local collection.