Rock's Ball-Room Hand Book, Quadrille Preceptor, Cellarius Instructor, Mazurka and Polka Companion, and Valses à Deux Tems Danseur, Together with all the most General and Fashionable Figures as Danced at State Balls and at Almack's (George Lemore Saunders, Third Edition, 1845)

Dance manual/reference by George Lemore Saunders (compiler/editor) / Rock, Brothers, and Payne, London, 1845. THIRD EDITION. Copyright entered at Stationers' Hall. From the collection of Richard Powers (POWERS/Rocks.txt ABBYY OCR, 588 lines). Comprehensive mid-1840s English ballroom guide at the moment of the 1844-1845 Polka-Mania onset and the earliest English-language Cellarius Valse publication (predating Cellarius's own 1847 Paris Traité). Contents: Preface + Advantages of Dancing + Brief Account of Dancing + Rules for Waltzers; Paine's First Set of Quadrilles (5 figures); Lancers Quadrilles — Duval's arrangement (5 figures, pp.20-23); Lancers Quadrilles — Hart's arrangement (5 figures, pp.23-25); Prince of Wales's First Set (5 figures, arr. Mr. Saunders, pp.25-28); The Cotillion (5 figures × 2 tunes + 5 'Changes', pp.28-30); Gallopade Quadrille (5 figures in diamond formation, pp.30-32); The Caledonian Quadrille (5 figures, p.32); Waltz Quadrille (p.34); Origin of La Polka + La Polka Steps + La Polka Figures (6-figure Polka social set, pp.35-39); La Polka Cotillion (pp.39-41); Polka Waltzes (p.41); Valse à Deux Tems (p.42); La Mazurka (p.43) + Mazurka Steps (p.44) + La Mazurka Figures (p.45); Cellarius Valse (p.47, EARLIEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE CELLARIUS INSTRUCTION 1845); La Cachuca + The Arab + The Moresca (Romantic-era novelty exhibition dances, pp.47-48). Bridges the POWERS-c1844-JULLIEN-MAZ-SPA (Jullien Mazurka of Spa, London c.1844) and POWERS-c1848-MITCHELL-POLKA (Mitchell 1848 Polka Lesson Book) in the English Polka-Mazurka-Cellarius codification lineage, and predates the LOC-1847-CELLARIUS Paris publication by 2 years. (1845). Imported from local collection.