The royal ball-room guide and etiquette of the drawing-room
Subtitle: containing the newest and most elegant dances and a short history of dancing.
By: By Rudolph Radestock ...
Publisher: W. Walker and Sons
Published: 1877
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
Subjects: Ballroom dancing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.; Notation for Dance.
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Other titles: Royal ball-room guide
Description: Like other nineteenth-century dance manuals, this is a compilation of earlier writings. The book provides a short history of dance, positions of the feet, a glossary of French terms, and suggestions for giving balls including an admonishment to have enough waiters at the supper table. Indicating the decade's growing interest in elaborate balls, Radestock suggests one waiter for each two persons. The section on etiquette has been reduced to thirty-three short rules, and the manual describes most of the popular ballroom dances--quadrille, waltz, schottisch--and a variety of country dances.
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