Roberts' manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room
Subtitle: containing a review and full description of all the modern dances, &c.
Publisher: G. Robertson
Published: 1875
Place of publication: Melbourne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Ballroom dancing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Other titles: Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room; Fashionable dancing
Description: Like many European and North American manuals of the nineteenth century, this Australian version is acknowledged by the publisher to be a compilation of other writers' work. To enhance the bookʼs marketability, the author states that many "who have left the colonies for London, Paris, and other continental cities" have admirably acquitted and distinguished themselves. The book describes quadrilles and waltzes as well as dances popular in the 1840s such as the "Cellarius Waltz."
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