Youens's Album and Ball-Room Guide — containing the Etiquette of the Ball-Room and the figures of all the most fashionable Quadrilles, Waltzes, Polkas, Schottische, Varsovienne, Styrien, Gorlitza, and Country Dances. By W.G. Youens, Professor of Dancing and Music, Hackney Academy. London: George Routledge and Sons, Broadway, Ludgate Hill. New York: 9 Lafayette Place. c.1870.

Dance manual/reference by George Routledge and Sons (London — Broadway, Ludgate Hill / New York — 9 Lafayette Place); Clay and Taylor (printers). c.1870. Source: Richard Powers collection (POWERS/ABBYY TXT/c1870_Youens.txt — 437 lines OCR). Mid-Victorian English transatlantic ballroom guide. Closing-page advertisement: Hackney Academy, 18 St Thomas's Square E. (established 1849). Mr W.G. Youens, Professor of Dancing and Music — private lessons, adult classes Mon/Thu evenings, juvenile Wed/Sat afternoons. TOC: Etiquette of the Ball Room (3 pages); Quadrilles (First Set / Lancers / Caledonians / Imperial / Parisian / Moscovians / Galopade / Double Coulon / Mazurka); Waltzes (Cotillon / Spanish / Circassian / Cellarius / Redowa / Valse à Trois Temps / Valse à Deux Temps); Polkas etc (Polka Mazurka / Schottische / Varsovienne / Styrien / Gorlitza / Polka / Galop); Country Dances (Tempête / Circassian / Mescolanza / Sir Roger de Coverley); 4 pages of French ballroom-vocabulary glossary. Notable for the first Routledge-and-Sons London-NY transatlantic ballroom-publishing imprint in the corpus, the first-corpus Moscovians-as-set 4-figure Waltz Quadrille decomposition (mints below), and providing decennial Rosetta against the freshly-minted Victoria c.1872 Dean & Son canon (Routledge vs Dean & Son London publishing-house parallel). (1870). Imported from local collection.