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• Ye Eisteddfod Genedlaethol (Llundain, 1909) / The National Eisteddfod of Wales (London, 1909) (list of subjects, prizes, adjudicators and conditions, in English and Welsh; London: Wyman and Sons, ca. 1909) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Horkey: A Ballad (London: MacMillan and Co., 1882), by Robert Bloomfield, illust. by George Cruikshank
  • page images at childrensbooksonline.org
  • multiple formats at Google

• Festivals of Western Europe (1958), by Dorothy Gladys Spicer (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• The Christmas Kalends of Provence, and Some Other Provençal Festivals (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1902), by Thomas A. Janvier (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The History of the Coronation of the Most High, Most Mighty, and Most Excellent Monarch, James II (London, 1687), by Francis Sandford and Gregory King (frame- and JavaScript-dependent page images at rarebookroom.org)

• Le Feste di San Giovanni in Firenze: Breve Notizia (in Italian; Florence: A. Ciardi, 1887), by Aurelio Gotti
  • page images in Italy
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Rover: Or, The Banish't Cavaliers, by Aphra Behn (HTML at Virginia)

• Selected illustrations (unique bound volume of 80 images from Diversarum Nationum Habitus and other Bertelli works, ca. 1590), by Pietro Bertelli
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Progress and Nostalgia: Silvesterklausen in Urnäsch, Switzerland (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c1985), by Regina Bendix (multiple formats at ACLS Humanities E-Book)

• Matsuri: Festival and Rite in Japanese Life (Tokyo: Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, c1988), trans. by Norman Havens (HTML in Japan)

• Immigration and the Political Economy of Home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), by Rachel Buff (frame-dependent illustrated HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Celebration by the Inhabitants of Worcester, Mass., of the Centennial Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, by Worcester (Mass.) (page images at MOA)

• Lima Gozosa: Descripcion de las Festibas Demonstraciones, con Que Está Ciudad, Capital de la América Meridional Celebró la Real Proclamacion de El Nombre Augusto del Catolico Monarcha El Señor Don Carlos III (in Spanish; 1760), contrib. by José A. Manso de Velasco (multiple formats at archive.org)

• De Feriis Anni Romanorum Vetustissimi Observationes Selectae (in Latin; Marburg: R. Friedrich, ca. 1891), by Georg Wissowa
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Bolshevik Festivals, 1917-1920 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by James Von Geldern (HTML at UC Press)

• Die Sezession in der Dramatischen Kunst und das Volksfestspiel, Mit Einem Rückblick auf die Passion von Oberammergau (in German; Munich: G. Müller, 1911), by Georg Fuchs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Antarctica: Music, Sounds and Cultural Connections (c2015), by Rupert Summerson and Arnan Wiesel Bernadette Hince, ed. by Bernadette Hince, Rupert Summerson, and Arnan Wiesel (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Woodstock Scholarship: An Interdisciplinary Annotated Bibliography (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2016), by Jeffrey N. Gatten (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Hand Book of the Carnival: Containing Mardi-Gras, Its Ancient and Modern Observance; History of the Mystick Krewe of Comus, The Twelfth Night Revelers, and Knights of Momus, With Annals of the Reign of His Majesty, the King of the Carnival in New Orleans (New Orleans: J. W. Madden, 1874) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Immigration and the Political Economy of Home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), by Rachel Buff (frame-dependent illustrated HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Rabelais's Carnival: Text, Context, Metatext (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Samuel C. Kinser (HTML at UC Press)

• Pagan Holidays, or God's Holy Days: Which?, by Herbert W. Armstrong (multiple formats with commentary at thetrumpet.com)
• Beacons on the Talmud's Sea: Analyses of Passages From The Talmud And Issues In Halachah, Adapted From The Works of The Lubavitcher Rebbe, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson (HTML at chabad.org)

• Jewish Holyday Stories: Modern Tales of the American Jewish Youth (second printing; New York: Bloch Pub. Co., 1921), by Elma Ehrlich Levinger
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Ten and a Kid (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, c1961), by Sadie Rose Weilerstein, illust. by Janina Domanska (page images at HathiTrust)

• Minhag Amerika: The Divine Service of American Israelites for the Day of Atonement (Cincinnati: Bloch and Co., c1866), ed. by Isaac Mayer Wise (PDF at americanjewisharchives.org)

• Haggadah Shel Pesach: Haggadah for Passover, With an English Translation (in Hebrew and English, with notes; Brooklyn: Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, 2019), trans. by Jacob Immanuel Schochet (PDF with commentary at chabad.org)
• HIAS Haggadah (c2019), by HIAS (Agency) (PDF files with commentary at hias.org)
• The Passover Haggadah (in English, with notes), ed. by Chabad Lubavitch (Organization) (HTML at chabad.org)

• Uncle Eli's Special for Kids Most Fun Under the Table Passover Haggadah (hypermedia edition), by Eliezer Segal (illustrated HTML in Canada)

• David of Modin: A Chanukah Play (New York: Bloch Pub. Co., c1903), by Jacob J. Leibson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Queen of Sheba and Her Only Son Menyelek (also known as The Kebra Nagast; London et al.: Medici Society, 1922), trans. by E. A. Wallis Budge
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
• The Queen of Sheba and Her Only Son Menyelek (Kebra Nagast), trans. by E. A. Wallis Budge (PDF at In Parentheses)

• The Paschal Feast in the Bible, by Pierre Grelot and J. Pierron (HTML at EWTN)
• The Union Haggadah: Home Service for the Passover (1923), ed. by Central Conference of American Rabbis, illust. by Isidore Lipton (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Uncle Eli's Special for Kids Most Fun Under the Table Passover Haggadah (hypermedia edition), by Eliezer Segal (illustrated HTML in Canada)

• The Passover Meal: A Ritual For Christian Homes (c1972), by Arleen McCarty Hynes (HTML at EWTN)

• Purim Portfolio (New York: Zionist Organization of America, 1946), ed. by Joseph Greenstein (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Little Known Facts About Thanksgiving and Lincoln's Proclamation (Fort Wayne, IN: Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., ca. 1939), by Louis Austin Warren (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Proclamations for Thanksgiving, Issued by the Continental Congress, Pres't Washington, by the National and State Governments on the Peace of 1815, and by the Governors of New York Since the Introduction of the Custom; With Those of the Governors of the Several States in 1858 (Albany, NY: Munsell and Rowland, 1858), ed. by Franklin B. Hough (page images at Ohio Memory)

• The Thanksgiving Turkey Pardon, the Death of Teddy's Bear, and the Sovereign Exception of Guantánamo (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2003), by Magnus Fiskesjö (PDF at prickly-paradigm.com)

• An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (as published in "Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag", 1882), by Louisa May Alcott (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Pagan Holidays, or God's Holy Days: Which?, by Herbert W. Armstrong (multiple formats with commentary at thetrumpet.com)
• The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals (Los Angeles et al.: St. Alban Press, 1920), by C. W. Leadbeater
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Festival of the Dead (reprinted as New Materials for the History of Man #1; Toronto: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 1920), by R. G. Haliburton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pilgrimage of Etheria (1919 SPCK edition of all extant portions of this work), by Egeria, trans. by M. L. McClure and Charles Lett Feltoe (HTML at CCEL)
• The Pilgrimage of S. Silvia of Aquitania to the Holy Places (Circ. 385 A.D.) (in English only (Latin text omitted); London: Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society, 1896), by Egeria, ed. by J. H. Bernard, contrib. by Charles William Wilson (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• An Essay on the Proper Lessons, Appointed by the Liturgy of the Church of England, to be Read on Sundays and Chief Festivals Throughout the Year, As They Are Directed by Her Table of Proper Lessons (third edition, 4 volumes; London: Printed for Ogles, Duncan, and Cochhan, 1818), by William Wogan, contrib. by James Gatliff
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • annotated transcription of Gatliff's life of the author in v1: multiple formats in the UK

• A Testimony for Truth Against All Hireling Priests and Deceivers, by Judith Boulbie (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Matsuri: Festival and Rite in Japanese Life (Tokyo: Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, c1988), trans. by Norman Havens (HTML in Japan)

• The Feasts of Camelot, with the Tales That Were Told There (London: Bell and Daldy, 1863), by Mrs. T. K. Hervey (multiple formats at Google)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.