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• The Stag's hornbook (Knopf, 1925), by John Peebles McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Delights of the bottle, or, The town-galants declaration for women and wine being a description of a town-bred gentleman with all his intregues, pleasure, company, humor, and conversation ... : to a most admirable new tune, every where much in request. ([London] : Printed for P. Brooksby, and R. Burton, and are to be sold at their shops ..., [1675]), by Thomas Shadwell (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• All is ours and our husbands, or The country hostesses vindication. She durst not scold 'tis counted for an evil. Sheel cheat and whore, and yet be counted civil; sheel fill her pocketsby [sic] poor drunkards losses, and send then all to jayl by weeping crosses. To the tune, of the Carmans VVhistle, or High boys up go we. ([London] : Printed for P. Brooksby at the Golden Ball in Pye-Corner, [between 1670-1696]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The delights of the bottle: or, The town-gallants declaration for women and wine. Being a description of a town-bred gentleman, with all his intreagus, pleasure, company, humour, and conversations. Gallants, from faults he cannot be exempt, who doth a task so difficult attempt; I know I shall not hit your features right, 'tis hard to imitate in black and whight, some lines were drawn by a more skilful hand, and which they were you'l quickly understand, excuse me therefore if I do you wrong, I did but make a ballad of a song. To a most admirable new tune, every where much in request. ([London] : Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Golden ball, near the Hospital-gate, in West-smithfield., [1675]), by Thomas Shadwell (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Die Kunst, wie man recht trincken soll nit dass man Tag und Nacht werd voll : vonn der Kunst zu trincken (Teubner, 1891), by Vincentius Opsopäus (page images at HathiTrust)

• In praise of ale (G. Redway, 1888), by W. T. Marchant (page images at HathiTrust)

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• A Tankard of Ale: An Anthology of Drinking Songs (London: Erskine Macdonald, ca. 1919), by Theodore Maynard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pivo v písních lidových a znárodnělých. (Praha, O.Zachara, 1909), by Čeněk Zíbrt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wein-lieder und sprüche (F. Bartholomaäus, 1882), by Ludwig Lorbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• More pious friends and drunken companions; songs and ballads of conviviality (The Macaulay company, 1928), by Frank Shay, John Held, and Helen Ramsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• My pious friends and drunken companions, songs and ballads of conviviality (The Macaulay company, 1927), by Frank Shay and John Held (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Weinschwelg; ein altdeutsches Gedicht aus der zweiten Hälfte des 13. Jahrhunderts (M. Niemeyer, 1886), by Karl Lucae (page images at HathiTrust)
• Full and by, being a collection of verses by persons of quality in praise of drinking (Doubleday, Page & company, 1925), by Cameron Rogers and Edward A. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A tankard of ale; an anthology of drinking songs (R.M. McBride & company, 1920), by Theodore Maynard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• My pious friends and drunken companions, songs and ballads of conviviality (The Macaulay company, 1927), by Frank Shay and John Held (page images at HathiTrust)
• More pious friends and drunken companions; songs and ballads of conviviality (The Macaulay Co., 1928), by Frank Shay and Helen Ramsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A tankard of ale, an anthology of drinking songs (E. Macdonald, ltd., 1919), by Theodore Maynard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tisch und trinklieder der Deutschen. (Degen, 1811), by Leopold Lad. Pfest (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs of the vine with a medley for maltworms: (A.H. Bullen, 1904), by William G. Hutchison (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The stag's hornbook (A.A. Knopf, 1918), by John Peebles McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• The curiosities of ale & beer: an entertaining history. (Field & Tuer [etc.];, 1886), by John Bickerdyke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drinking songs and other songs (C. Palmer, 1928), by W. R. Titterton and Van Norman Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The curiosities of ale & beer : an entertaining history. (Illustrated with over fifty auaint cuts) (Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1889), by Charles Henry Cook, J. M. Dixon, and J. G. Fennell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lieder für den Bier-Commers gegeben von der Stadt Frankfurt a. M. der 68. Versammlung Deutscher Naturforscher und Aaerzte am 23. September 1896. (Lith. Anst. v. Werner & Winter, 1896), by Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bachus : Buch des Weins : Sammlung der ausgezeichnetsten Trinklieder der deutschen Poesie (Baumgartner, 1854), by Eduard Maria Oettinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Festive songs, principally of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Printed for the Percy Society by T. Richards, 1848), by William Sandys (page images at HathiTrust)
• Weinbüchlein (Weidmann'sche Buchhandlung, 1845), by Philipp Wackernagel (page images at HathiTrust)
• 266 Volks-, Trink- und Wanderlieder : vollständiges Textbuch (O. Teich, 1891), by Hugo Hartmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ergo bibamus! : neue Lieder für durstige Kehlen (A. Unflad, 1886), by Gustav E. Pazaurek (page images at HathiTrust)
• De scoliorum poesi. (C. Gerold, 1882), by August Engelbrecht (page images at HathiTrust)
• Odes to Bacchus. (Holyoake & co., 1862) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die trunkene Mette : durch vier deutsche Jahrhunderte (W. Drugulin, 1909), by Karl Wolfskehl and Ernst Schulte-Strathaus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kommersbuch des Deutschen literarischen Klubs von Cincinnati. 1889. (S. Rosenthal & Co., 1889), by Cincinnati Deutscher Literarischer Klub (page images at HathiTrust)
• In praise of ale (G. Redway, 1888), by W. T. Marchant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drinking song of Walter de Mapes (M.F. Mansfield, 1898), by Walter Map, Balnche McManus, and Robert W. Arnot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schenkenbuch; Rhein- und Weinlieder. (Keller, 1880), by Friedrich Hornfeck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Toasts & tipple; a bookof conviviality (M. A. Donohue & co., 1914), by Wallace Rice and Frances Rice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Allgemeines Reichs-Commersbuch für deutsche Studenten (Breitkopf und Härtel, 1875), by Müller von der Werra (page images at HathiTrust)
• The curiosities of ale & beer: an entertaining history. (Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1889), by John Bickerdyke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Airs de cour mis en tablature de luth : dixiesme livre (Mark A. Meadow, 1983), by Anthoyne Boesset (page images at HathiTrust)
• Airs de cour avec la tablature de luth : second livre (Mark A. Meadow, 1983), by Etienne Moulinié (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quick! we have but a second (William A. Pond, 1869), by Dudley Buck and Thomas Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• My wife and I lived all alone (Jos. E. Winner, 1869), by Eastburn and J. E. Winner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oh! fill, Oh! fill your glasses boys, with nectar sparkling bright (Atwill's Music Saloon, in the 1840s), by L. Devereaux and J.H. Bufford & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chants et chansons populaires de la France (Paris : Garnier frères, libraires-éditeurs, 6, Rue des Saints-Pères, 6, [1848?], 1848), by Pierre Julien Nargeot, François Joseph Gossec, C.-G. Delestre-Poirson, Etienne Nicolas Méhul, Jean-Joseph Mouret, Alexis de Garaudé, Solié, François Devienne, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, A. Boieldieu, André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry, 1740?-1792 Dezède, Johann Paul Aegidius Martini, L. Pradher, Dominique Della-Maria, Louis-Victor Simon, N. Dalayrac, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Pierre Gaveaux, Jean-Joseph Vadé, Joseph Denis Doche, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, G. G. Ferrari, Jean-Louis Fasquel, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Paul-Emile Debraux, Amédée de Beauplan, P. J. Bernard, M. de Moncrif, Alexandre Duval, Jeanne-Renée de Bombelles Travanet, Armand Gouffé, P.-F.-N. Fabre d'Eglantine, Pigault-Lebrun, Théodore Desorgues, Eugène Scribe, Marie-Joseph Chénier, Joseph Pain, Jacques Cazotte, Alexandre-Joseph-Pierre Ségur, Abbé Garon, Adam Billaut, M. de Saint-Félix, Biden de Villemontez, F.-L. Riboutté, Jean-François de La Harpe, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Monvel, Florian, citoyenne Pipelet, Charles-Guillaume Étienne, Ange Etienne Xavier Poisson de La Chabeaussière, François-René Chateaubriand, Marsollier, Alexandre Deleyre, M. de La Motte, M. Favart, Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, P.-J. Charrin, Casimir Ménestrier, M. Désaugiers, Louis Festeau, M. Ducray-Duminil, Charles-François Panard, Nicolas Louis François de Neufchâteau, J.-M. Souriguère de Saint-Marc, Pierre Martin de Choisy, Sedaine, Henri Emy, Edouard de Beaumont, Antoine Rivoulon, Pierre Francois Eugène Giraud, L. Steinheil, Antoine Pascal, Jean Auguste Dubouloz, M. Torlet, Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier, Louis Joseph Trimolet, Gustave Staal, Charles Michel Geoffroy, Benjamin Raspail, Émile Giroux, Eugène Gervais, Charles Ransonnette, Jean-Michel Mercier, Mme. Matthieu, Armand Joseph Lallemand, Charles Beyer, Jules Roze, Johann Baptist Pfitzer, Auguste Jourdain, Joseph-Isnard-Louis Desjardins, E. Lechard, L. Wolff, Ferdinand Delannoy, François-Louis Couché, Antoine-Joseph Gaitte, Charles François Daubigny, active 19th century Huart (engraver), Philibert Langlois, P. Brunellière, Paul Girardet, C. Kolb, Adrien Charles Danois, François Jules Collignon, Jean Mathias Fontaine, Louis Marie Bosredon, Eugénie Goujon, Ernest Monnin, Alès, Garnier, Alph. Boilly, Julien Léopold Boilly, Jean Denis Nargeot, M. Ourry, Charles Le Page, Alphonse de Lamartine, Le Roux de Lincy, P. L. Jacob, Hippolyte Raymond Colet, Théophile Marion Dumersan, Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection (Morgan Library & Museum), Tantenstein et Cordel, and Garnier frères (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Curiosities of Ale & Beer: An Entertaining History: (Illustrated with over Fifty Quaint Cuts), by John Bickerdyke, contrib. by J. M. Dixon and J. G. Fennell (Gutenberg ebook)
• A very pleasant nevv ditty: to the tune of Stand thy ground old Harry. (Printed at London : for H. Gosson, [c. 1625]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Dibdin's museum, being a collection of the newest and most admired songs. (Philadelphia: : Printed by R. Aitken, no. 22 Market-Street. For Joseph Charless., M.DCC.XCVII. [1797]), by Charles Dibdin (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Englands triumph: or, The subjects joy All you that troubled are with melancholly, the Spaniards have a juyce will make you jolly: good wine, good wine, I say's the only thing, that can for such distemper comfort bring: it comforts the heart, and quickens each vein, if a man be half dead, it will fetch him again. To the pleasant new tune, Or, come let us drink all day and night. ([London] : Printed for J[ohn]. Hose, over-against Staples-Inn in Houlbourn, neer Grays-Inn-Lane, [1675?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A briefe discourse of the true (but neglected) vse of charact'ring the degrees, by their perfection, imperfection, and diminution in measurable musicke, against the common practise and custome of these times Examples whereof are exprest in the harmony of 4. voyces, concerning the pleasure of 5. vsuall recreations. 1 Hunting, 2 hawking, 3 dauncing, 4 drinking, 5 enamouring. By Thomas Rauenscroft, Bachelor of Musicke. (London : Printed by Edw: Allde for Tho. Adams, 1614), by Thomas Ravenscroft, John Bennet, and Edward Pearce (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Second livre des chansons a danser et a boire ([Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [not after 1980?], in the 1970s), by Jean Boyer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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