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• Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs (c1891), by P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Notices illustrative of the drama, and other popular amusements, chiefly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, incidentally illustrating Shakespeare and his contemporaries; extracted from the chamberlains' accounts and other manuscripts of the borough of Leicester. (J. R. Smith, 1865), by William Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old English sports, pastimes and customs (Methuen and co., 1891), by P. H. Ditchfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colburn's kalendar of amusements in town and country, for 1840. (H. Colburn, 1840), by Henry Colburn and Boleyne Reeves (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sports and pastimes, or, Sport for the city and pastime for the country with a touch of hocus pocus, or leger-demain / fitted for the delight and recreation of youth by J.M. (London : Printed by H.B. for John Clark ..., 1676), by J. M. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The first days entertainment at Rutland-House, by declamations and musick: after the manner of the ancients. / By Sr VV.D. (London, : Printed by J.M. for H. Herringman, and sold at his shop at the Anchor, in the New-Exchange, in the Lower Walk., 1657. [i.e. 1656]), by William D'Avenant (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Old English country dance steps... English country dances of the 17th century. Revived by Miss Cowper Coles. Illustrated by diagrams, and photographs of her pupils in the dances. (J. Curwen & Sons Ltd., 1909), by Alice M. Cowper Coles (page images at HathiTrust)

• A problem of the centuries, and some palliatives of to-day. Being a study in counter attractions (Friends' Temperance Union, 1912), by J. W. Harvey Theobald (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Behind the footlights, or, The stage as I knew it (F. Warne, 1885), by W. C. Day (page images at HathiTrust)

• The amusements of old London : being a survey of the sports and pastimes, tea gardens and parks, playhouses and other diversions of the people of London from the 17th to the beginning of the 19th century (J.C. Nimmo, 1901), by William B. Boulton (page images at HathiTrust)

• The pleasure haunts of London during four centuries (Constable & company, ltd.;, 1925), by E. Beresford Chancellor (page images at HathiTrust)

• An account of the musical performances in Westminister-Abbey, and the Pantheon, May 26th, 27th, 29th; and June the 3d, and 5th, 1784 : in commemoration of Handel (Printed for the benefit of the Musical Fund and sold by T. Payne and son and G. Robinson, 1785), by Charles Burney (page images at HathiTrust)

• Crystal Palace ([London] : F.M. Evans, [1895], 1895), by August Mann (page images at HathiTrust)

• Philharmonic concerts (The Society, in the 19th century), by Philharmonic Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Concerts of antient music. (W. Lee, 1780) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mr. Hawes's annual concert, at the Argyll Rooms on Friday, April 29th, 1825. [Programme] (Printed by J. Mallett, 1825), by William Hawes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crystal Palace ([London] : F.M. Evans, [1895], 1895), by August Mann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Concerts of ancient music (W. Lee, 1780) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Places of public entertainment: rules with regard to the management of places of public entertainment licensed by the London County Council. (London County Council., in the 20th century), by London County Council (page images at HathiTrust)

• The "A.D.C." being personal reminiscences of the University Amateur Dramatic Club, Cambridge (Chapman and Hall, 1880), by F. C. Burnand (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Amateur stage. (Amateur Stage, Ltd., 1926) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Circus Life and Circus Celebrities (London: Tinsley Bros., 1875), by Thomas Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Circus life and circus celebrities. (Tinsley Bros., 1875), by Thomas Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Circus life and circus celebrities (Chatto and Windus, 1881), by Thomas Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Circus Life and Circus Celebrities, by Thomas Frost (Gutenberg ebook)

• [Programs of concerts.] (H. Smith, 1836), by Manchester (England). Musical festival (1836) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Musical notes: annual critical record of important musical events. (Carson and Comerford, 1887), by Hermann Klein (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kemps Nine Daies Wonder: Performed in a Daunce From London to Norwich, by William Kemp (text in the UK)
• Kemps Nine Daies Wonder: Performed in a Daunce From London to Norwich (London: Printed for the Camden Society, by J. B. Nichols and Son, 1840), by William Kemp, ed. by Alexander Dyce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nine daies wonder. (Priv. print., 1884), by William Kemp and Edmund Goldsmid (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sword dances of northern England, together with the horn dance of Abbots Bromley (Novello and company, limited, 1912), by Cecil J. Sharp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient dances and music. Six dance tunes from Playford's Dancing master with the original directions for the dances (J. Curwen, 1909), by Nellie Chaplin and John Playford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Country dance tunes from The English dancing master (Novello, 1909), by Cecil James Sharp (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of minstrelsy. (Walter Scott Publishing Co., ltd.;, 1907), by Edmondstoune Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)
• English pastoral drama from the Restoration to the date of the publication of the "Lyrical Ballads" (1660-1798). (Methuen & Co., 1908), by Jeannette Augustus Marks (page images at HathiTrust)
• English music (1604 to 1904) being the lectures given at the music loan exhibition of the Worshipful company of musicians, held at Fishmongers' Hall, London Bridge, June-July, 1904. (The Walter Scott Publishing Co., ltd.;, 1906), by London Musicians' Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal. (Kraus Reprint, 1914), by English Folk Dance and Song Society and Perceval Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sword-dances of northern England : collected and described (Novello, 1911), by Cecil J. Sharp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music and notation of Gathering peascods : from Country dance tunes, Set III ; and Country dance book, Part II (Novello & Co., Ltd., 1911), by Cecil James Sharp and Novello & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sword dances of northern England, together with the horn dance of Abbots Bromley. (Novello and Co., 1911), by Cecil J. Sharp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kemps Nine Daies Wonder: Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich, by William Kemp, ed. by Alexander Dyce (Gutenberg ebook)

• [English 18th century dances] (1813) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Dancing Master (10th edition, 1698), ed. by John Playford (page images at LOC)
• Kemps nine daies wonder : performed in a daunce from London to Norwich (AMS Press, 1968), by William Kemp and Alexander Dyce (page images at HathiTrust)
• English dancing master (London : Printed for John Playford at his shop ..., 1653), by John Playford (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Old English country dance steps : English country dances of the 17th century (J. Curwen, 1909), by Alice M. Cowper Coles (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Elizabethan jig and related song drama (The University of Chicago press, 1929), by Charles Read Baskervill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal. (Kraus Reprint, 1914), by English Folk Dance and Song Society and Perceval Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old English country dance tunes, complete with simple figures and directions for dancing (Davidson, 1900), by Frank Kidson and Grace Lambert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folk-dance airs (Novello & co., 1908), by Cecil J. Sharp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old English country dance steps... English country dances of the 17th century. Revived by Miss Cowper Coles. Illustrated by diagrams, and photographs of her pupils in the dances. (J. Curwen & Sons Ltd., 1909), by Alice M. Cowper Coles (page images at HathiTrust)
• The country dance book. Part II. Containing thirty country dances from the English dancing master (1650-1686) described by Cecil J. Sharp. 2. ed., rev. (Novello, 1913), by Cecil James Sharp (page images at HathiTrust)
• The country dance book. (Novello and Co., 1918), by Cecil James Sharp, Maud Karpeles, and George Butterworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English folk dance tradition; an essay. (Verlag: Neue Schule Hellerau, 1923), by Rolf Gardiner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Morris book, with a description of dances as performed by the Morris men of England, by Cecil J. Sharp and Herbert C. Macilwaine. 2. ed., rev. and entirely re-written. (Novello, 1911), by Cecil James Sharp, George Butterworth, and Herbert C. MacIlwaine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Country dance tunes, collected and arranged by Cecil J. Sharp. Set I-VIII. (Novello & Co., ltd., 1909), by Cecil James Sharp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An introduction to the English country dance; containing the description together with the tunes of twelve dances, by Cecil J. Sharp. (Novello and Co., ltd., 1919), by Cecil James Sharp (page images at HathiTrust)

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