Dancing: A Complete Instructor and Guide to All the New and Standard Dances .

". With a full list of calls for all the square dances, The necessary music for each figure, etiquette of the dances, and one hundred figures for the Germans . With numerous illustrations [full-page and in-text] by Nina G. Barlow." Original dark moss-green cloth, lettered in red and decoratively bordered in silver; cloth somewhat worn at corners and spine ends; covers rubbed, especially affecting joints and silvering; titling on spine virtually gone. Ex-library, with evidence of label removed at spine, and the usual internal markings ("withdrawn" label over bookplate; small blind-stamp on title page and pp.55, ink number on copyright page; date due slip at rear and rear pastedown stamped with dates). Lacks front free endpaper; text loose, yet still holding well. A good copy only, but uncommon in the first edition. (Note: Covers most of the popular late Victorian steps, including square dances, contra-dances, cotillions, round dances, etc.).