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A Guide to the Ball Room: Being a Complete Compendium of the Etiquette of Dancing, with the Figures of all the Quadrilles, Gallopades, Mazourkas, Polonaises, etc. ('By a Man of Fashion'; 37th Thousand, London, c.1842)
Publisher: 'By a Man of Fashion' (anonymous) / C. Mitchell, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London (William Stevens, Printer, Bell Yard, Temple Bar). 'Thirty-seventh Thousand, Corrected and Improved'. Source: Richard Powers collection (POWERS/c1842_Mitchell.txt — 583 lines OCR). Dating: c.1842 per Bruton-Street imprint, the Albert Quadrille with Victoria Finale (Prince Albert m. Queen Victoria 1840), the Strauss/Lanner/Labitzky/Jullien/Musard/Collinet/Weippert waltz-composer roster, and the explicit reference to Almack's circa 1840s. Bound under the running head 'A Guide to the Ball Room' with an introductory description of the ballrooms at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle. Three-part structure: (I) Essay on Dancing — As an Art / Characteristics of Dancing in Various Countries / Learning to Dance; (II) Etiquette of the Ball Room — Public Balls / Rules to Gentlemen / Rules to Ladies / Private Balls; (III) All the Dances (with the Figures of each) — First Set Quadrilles (Le Pantalon, L'Été, La Poule, La Trenise, La Pastorale, Galop Finale), The Lancers (5 figures), The Caledonians First Set + Second Set (5+5 figures), First Set with Old Finale (Trenise, Pastorale, Old Finale variants), Second/Third/Fourth/Fifth Set Quadrilles (6/6/5/5 figures), The Albert Quadrilles (Nouvelle Pantalon, Nouvelle L'Été, Nouvelle Poule, 4th Figure, Victoria Finale), The Queen's Own (5 figures), The Spanish Dance (or Saraband of Spain), Waltz Quadrille First Set + Second Set, Waltz Cotillion, La Gallopade, The Gallopade Quadrilles, The Mazourka (Kolo Polish Set, Right and Left Polish Set, Grand Chain, Finish with Kolo), The Polonaise; plus Glossary of French Terms used in Dancing. Captures the early-1840s English court-ballroom syllabus immediately preceding Coulon 1844 (LOC-1844-COULON) and Cellarius 1847 (LOC-1847-CELLARIUS); the first appearance in corpus of the Albert Quadrille's 'Victoria Finale' (a wedding-anniversary tribute), the 'Queen's Own' with all-eight grand-square structure, and the four-figure 'KOLO Polish Set / Right and Left Polish Set / Grand Chain / Finish with Kolo' Mazourka decomposition. Has_Step_Detail = Partial.Year: 1842Family: powers-c1842-mitchellCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by 'By a Man of Fashion' (anonymous) / C. Mitchell, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London (William Stevens, Printer, Bell Yard, Temple Bar). 'Thirty-seventh Thousand, Corrected and Improved'. Source: Richard Powers collection (POWERS/c1842_Mitchell.txt — 583 lines OCR). Dating: c.1842 per Bruton-Street imprint, the Albert Quadrille with Victoria Finale (Prince Albert m. Queen Victoria 1840), the Strauss/Lanner/Labitzky/Jullien/Musard/Collinet/Weippert waltz-composer roster, and the explicit reference to Almack's circa 1840s. Bound under the running head 'A Guide to the Ball Room' with an introductory description of the ballrooms at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle. Three-part structure: (I) Essay on Dancing — As an Art / Characteristics of Dancing in Various Countries / Learning to Dance; (II) Etiquette of the Ball Room — Public Balls / Rules to Gentlemen / Rules to Ladies / Private Balls; (III) All the Dances (with the Figures of each) — First Set Quadrilles (Le Pantalon, L'Été, La Poule, La Trenise, La Pastorale, Galop Finale), The Lancers (5 figures), The Caledonians First Set + Second Set (5+5 figures), First Set with Old Finale (Trenise, Pastorale, Old Finale variants), Second/Third/Fourth/Fifth Set Quadrilles (6/6/5/5 figures), The Albert Quadrilles (Nouvelle Pantalon, Nouvelle L'Été, Nouvelle Poule, 4th Figure, Victoria Finale), The Queen's Own (5 figures), The Spanish Dance (or Saraband of Spain), Waltz Quadrille First Set + Second Set, Waltz Cotillion, La Gallopade, The Gallopade Quadrilles, The Mazourka (Kolo Polish Set, Right and Left Polish Set, Grand Chain, Finish with Kolo), The Polonaise; plus Glossary of French Terms used in Dancing. Captures the early-1840s English court-ballroom syllabus immediately preceding Coulon 1844 (LOC-1844-COULON) and Cellarius 1847 (LOC-1847-CELLARIUS); the first appearance in corpus of the Albert Quadrille's 'Victoria Finale' (a wedding-anniversary tribute), the 'Queen's Own' with all-eight grand-square structure, and the four-figure 'KOLO Polish Set / Right and Left Polish Set / Grand Chain / Finish with Kolo' Mazourka decomposition. Has_Step_Detail = Partial. (1842). Imported from local collection.