Pratt's First Set of Quadrilles (Pratt / London, c.1817)

Dance manual/reference by Composed five-figure quadrille set by Pratt, published in London c.1817. Dating evidence: the publication is listed in a February 2, 1817 advertisement for 'New Music for the Pianoforte' in the Morning Post (per Richard Powers' bibliographic note). Each figure overlays a specifically-titled music selection on a standard French-Quadrille structural form: Pantalons (Le Pantalon form — right-and-left, sett, ladies-chain in form of swing corners, half-promenade), La Hortense (L'Été form — en avant deux, chassez, traversez, balancez), La Clarice (La Poule form — cross with right hand, recross with left, four set in line, half-promenade), La Chambery (Trenise variant — chassés croisés quatre, cavalier seul forward + retire twice, balance, tour de mains), and an unnamed-in-OCR Finale figure (pursuit-figure with cavalier and dame doubling, balance, tour de mains, then chassés croisés huit to finish). Bilingual French/English step prose throughout — characteristic of the early-Regency Anglo-Parisian quadrille publishing convention in which the music titles ('Hortense,' 'Clarice,' 'Chambery') served as mnemonic music-cue figure-labels for dancers familiar with the standard French-Quadrille structures. Title rendered as 'Pratt's Quadrilles' / 'Pratts Quadrilles' / 'Pr.n's Quadrilles' / 'Pritt's Quadrilles' across different OCR renderings. Source: Richard Powers collection (POWERS/Pratt_First_Set.txt — 54 lines OCR; bilingual French and English step prose for five named figures). Has_Step_Detail = Partial (bilingual French/English foot-direction prose; pre-Cellarius vocabulary). The earliest Pratt quadrille publication in the corpus; predates the Paine quadrille series (Paine 2nd Set, Paine Fifth Set, Paine's Quadrilles, Paine's 4th Set 1815) in publication order and overlaps in publishing convention with the broader 1810s London quadrille market. (1817). Imported from local collection.