The Dancing-master [electronic resource] : Or, Directions for dancing country dances, with the tunes to each dance, for the treble-violin. The fourteenth edition, containing above 350 of the choicest old and new tunes now used at court, and other publick places. The whole work revised and done in the new ty'd-note, and much more correct than any former editions.

Dancing master

English dancing master

London : Printed by W. Pearson, and sold by John Young, musical-instrument-marker, at the Dolphin and Crown at the West End of St. Paul's Church, and Mich. Raw'ins, musical-instrument-maker in the Strand, near Charing-Cross, 1709.

Great Britain -- England -- London.

English

[8], 358 p. : ill., music ; obl. 12⁰

Includes tunes followed by directions for each dance
First ed. published in 1651 by John Playford as: The English dancing master
Engraved ill. t.p.: "The dancing schoole"
Signatures: A⁴ B-Z⁶ Aa-Gg⁶ Hh³ Ii²
Includes index
The music is printed from moveable type
References: Dean-Smith, M. 'Playford's English dancing master' (London, 1957), p. xxvii
Price on title page: Price Bound 3s. 6d.
Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

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English Short Title Catalog, T301019.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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