HILLGROVE'S BALL ROOM GUIDE AND PRACTICAL DANCER. A COMPLETE PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE ART OF DANCING. CONTAINING DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL FASHIONABLE AND APPROVED DANCES, FULL DIRECTIONS FOR CALLING THE FIGURES, THE AMOUNT OF MUSIC REQUIRED; HINTS ON ETIQUETTE, THE TOILET, ETC.
Book Details + Condition: Dick & Fitzgerald (New York). Scarce First Edition, 1863. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. Measures 6.5" x 5". 237 pages, followed by advertisements. Advertisements also serve as paste-downs in front and rear of book. Tight binding; bumped and rubbed corners and edges; shelf wear to boards; slight lean to book; repaired tear to one text page; text is clean and unmarked save a sweet drawing and bookseller stamp on first blank page, as well as penmanship practice on back of last text page (appears to have been owned by a young man or woman); age-toning to pages.
