Title: The ball-room monitor, or, Guide to the learner
First published: 1866
Description: Like many other nineteenth-century dance manuals, much of the material in The Ball-room monitor is not original but is borrowed from previously published sources. The manual, which would fit into a pocket, contains information on quadrilles (called cotillions by Brooks), waltz, polka redowa, and schottisch. Additionally, the manual contains numerous variety quadrilles--polka quadrilles, schottisch quadrilles, Polaca quadrilles, Varsoviana quadrilles, and a mazurka quadrille.
Subjects: Ballroom dancing, Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals, Handbooks, manuals, Handbooks, manuals, etc, Quadrille (Dance)
LC classification: GV1751 .B85