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• 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)
• Shrove Tuesday football (Harvard University Press, 1931), by Francis Peabody Magoun (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Hone's Popular works and everlasting calender (William Tegg and Co., 85, Queen Street, Cheapside, 1850), by William Hone and George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)

• Shrove Tuesday football (Harvard University Press, 1931), by Francis Peabody Magoun (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Glig-gamena angel-deod (Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, for White and Co.; Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme; Lackington, Allen, and Co.; John and Arthur Arch; John Murray; John Harding; Crosby and Co.; and Charles and Robert Baldwin, 1810), by Joseph Strutt, R. Baldwin, Charles Baldwin, J. Harding, John Murray, John White, Thomas Bensley, B. Crosby and Co, John and Arthur Arch, Allen and Co Lackington, and Hurst Longman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Yearbook of English festivals. (H. W. Wilson Co., 1954), by Dorothy Gladys Spicer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the coronation of the most high, most mighty, and most excellent monarch, James II, by the grace of God, king of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. and of his royal consort Queen Mary : solemnized in the collegiate church of St. Peter in the city of Westminster, on Thursday the 23 of April, being the festival of St. George, in the year of Our Lord 1685 : with an exact account of the several preparations in order thereunto, Their Majesties most splendid processions, and their royal and magnificent feast in Westminster-Hall : the whole work illustrated with sculptures (Printed by Thomas Newcomb ..., 1687), by Francis Sandford and Gregory King (page images at HathiTrust)
• A congratulation in honour of the annual festival of the lords, knights, esq. and yeomandry of the county of Hertford, at Merchant Taylors Hall, on Thursday Sept. 6, 1655 ... ([London : s.n., 1655]), by John Crouch (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Y Gordofigion; sef Cyfansoddiadau buddugol Eisteddfodau Liverpool a Birkenhead, am 1867 ac 1868. (I. Foulkes, 1868), by Eisteddfod (1867-1868 : Liverpool & Birkenhead) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Y Gordofigion, sef Cyfansoddiadau barddonol (buddugol) Eisteddfodau Liverpool a Birkenhead, am 1869, 1870, 1871 ac 1872. (I. Foulkes, 1873), by Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales (1869-1872 : Liverpool & Birkenhead) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Y Gordofigion, sef Cyfansoddiadau barddonol buddugol Eisteddfodau Liverpool a Birkenhead, 1873 a 1874. (I. Foulkes, 1875), by Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales (1873-1874 : Liverpool & Birkenhead) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Programme [of the] Birmingham triennial musical festival in aid of the General hospital to be held in the Town hall on Oct. 1, 2, 3 and 4, 1912. (Birmingham, 1912), by Birmingham Musical Festival (page images at HathiTrust)

• Y Gordofigion; sef Cyfansoddiadau buddugol Eisteddfodau Liverpool a Birkenhead, am 1867 ac 1868. (I. Foulkes, 1868), by Eisteddfod (1867-1868 : Liverpool & Birkenhead) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Y Gordofigion, sef Cyfansoddiadau barddonol (buddugol) Eisteddfodau Liverpool a Birkenhead, am 1869, 1870, 1871 ac 1872. (I. Foulkes, 1873), by Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales (1869-1872 : Liverpool & Birkenhead) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Y Gordofigion, sef Cyfansoddiadau barddonol buddugol Eisteddfodau Liverpool a Birkenhead, 1873 a 1874. (I. Foulkes, 1875), by Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales (1873-1874 : Liverpool & Birkenhead) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transactions of the Royal national eisteddfod of Wales, Liverpool, 1884. (I. Foulkes, 1885), by England) Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales (1884 : Liverpool and William R. Owen (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• Old ballads illustrating the great frost of 1783-4 and the fair on the river Thames. (Printed for the Percy society, by T. Richards, 1844), by Edward F. Rimbault (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Programme of the London Conference festival, to be held in the Freemason's Hall, Great Queen Street, ... June 2nd, 1851. (Printed by J.B. Franklin, 1851) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical memento, &c. &c. (Edited, published and sold by Edward Orme, 1814), by John Heaviside Clark, M. Dubourg, Edward Orme, and Francis William Blagdon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lord mayors' pageants : being collections towards a history of these annual celebrations, with specimens of the descriptive pamphlets published by the city poets (Printed for the Percy Society by T. Richards, 1843), by F. W. Fairholt (page images at HathiTrust)
• London in its splendor consisting of triumphant pageants, whereon are represented many persons richly arrayed, properly habited, and significant to the design : with several speeches and a song, suitable to the solemnity : all prepared for the honour of the prudent magistrate, Sir William Hooker, Kt., Lord Mayor of the city of London, at the peculiar expences of the Worshipful Company of Grocers : as also, a description of His Majesties royal entertainment at Guildhall, by the city, in a plentiful feast, and a glorious banquet / written by Tho. Jordan. (London : Printed by W.G. for Nath. Brook and John Playford, 1673), by Thomas Jordan (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• London in luster projecting many bright beams of triumph disposed into several representations of scenes and pageants : performed with great splendor on Wednesday, October XXIX, 1679, at the initiation and instalment of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Clayton, Knight, Lord Mayor of the city of London ... : all set forth at the proper cost and charges of the worshipful Company of Drapers / devised and composed by Tho. Jordan, Gent. (London : Printed for John Playford ..., 1679), by Thomas Jordan and England) Drapers' Company (London (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Londons triumphs express'd in sundry representations, pageants, and shows, performed on Monday, Octob. 30, 1676, at the inauguration and instalment of the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Davies, Kt., Lord Mayor of the city of London : containing a true description of the several scenes and habits of the representers, with the speeches spoken on each pageant / designed and composed by Tho. Jordan. (London : Printed for John Playford ..., 1676), by Thomas Jordan and Society of Drapers (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The triumphs of London performed on Tuesday, October XXIX, 1678, for the entertainment of the right honourable and truly noble pattern of prudence and loyalty, Sir James Edwards, knight, Lord Mayor of the city of London, containing a true description of the several pageants with the speeches spoken on each pageant, together with the songs sung in this solemnity, all set forth at the proper costs and charges of the worshipful company of grocers / designed and composed by Tho. Jordan, gent. (London : Printed for John Playford ..., 1678), by Thomas Jordan and England) Grocers' Company (London (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The triumphs of London performed on Tuesday, Octob. 29, 1695, for the entertainment of the right honourable Sir John Houblon, Kt., Lord Mayor of the city of London, containing a true description of the several pageants, with the speeches spoken on each pageant : all prepared at the proper costs and charges of the worshipful Company of Grocers : to which is added, a new song upon His Majesty's return / by E.S. (London : Printed by Jer. Wilkins, and are to be sold by Richard Baldwin ..., 1695), by Elkanah Settle (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Wie vnd in wellicher Gestalt Kay. May. vo[n] Bruck anss gen Lunden in Engeland gezogen ankom[m]en vnd empfangen worden ist. (Melchior Ramminger, 1522), by Heinrich Vogtherr and Melchior Ramminger (page images at HathiTrust)

• The entertainment of his most excellent majestie Charles II, in his passage through the city of London to his coronation : containing an exact account of the whole solemnity, the triumphal arches, and cavalcade delineated in sculpture ; the speeches and impresses illustrated from antiquity : to these is added a brief narrative of His Majestie's solemn coronation : with his magnificent proceedings, and royal feast in Westminster-Hall (Printed by Tho: Roycroft, and are to be had at the Authors House ..., 1662), by John Ogilby, David Loggan, Wenceslaus Hollar, and Edward Walker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tableau of the procession at the queen's coronation (Robert Tyas ;, 1838), by John Menzies, Robert Tyas, Rittner & Goupil, and John Appleton & Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• Christening of the Marquis of Titchfield : May 22nd 1893. ([England] : [Publisher not identified], [1893], 1893), by William Arthur Henry Portland (page images at HathiTrust)

• Le Forum de Vesontio et la Fête des fous à Besançon. (Dodivers et cie., 1878), by Auguste Castan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoires pour servir à l'histoire de la Fête des foux, qui se faisoit autrefois dans plusieurs eglises ([s.n.], 1751), by Jean-Bénigne Lucotte Tilliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monnaies inconnues des évêques des innocens, des fous, et de quelques autres associations singulières du même temps, recueillies et décrites (Merlin, 1837), by Marcel Jerôme Rigollot and C. Leber (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'office de la fête des fous de Sens (Sens, 1856), by de Corbeil Pierre, F. Bourquelot, and Officia Propria Catholic Church. C.O. (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de la Fête des foux, qui se faisoit autrefois dans plusieurs eglises ([s.n.], 1751), by Jean-Bénigne Lucotte Tilliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de la Fête des foux, qui se faisoit autrefois dans plusieurs eglises (Chez Marc-Michel Bousquet & compagnie, 1741), by Jean-Bénigne Lucotte Tilliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description d'un diptyque qui renferme un missel de La fête des fous, lequel est conservé dans la bibliothèque de Sens : avec une notice de ce missel (De l'Imprimerie impériale, 1806), by A. L. Millin and Bibliothèque municipale de Sens (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Horkey: A Ballad (London: MacMillan and Co., 1882), by Robert Bloomfield, illust. by George Cruikshank
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• A letter to the loyal apprentices in and about London and Westminster,: for their making of a noble, extraordinary, rejoycing prossession, on Monday the eleventh of April, 1698 : being His Majesties coronation day, in congratulation of His Majestys safe return home; : and for the honourable, firm, and lasting peace. / written by Captain Anthony Stampe. (London : Printed for E. Whitlock, near Stationers-Hall, 1697), by Anthony Stampe (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A narrative of the grand festival, at Yarmouth, on Tuesday, the 19th of April, 1814 : with an appendix, containing copies of all the handbills which were published on the occasion, a list of the subscribers, and an account of the expenditure. (Printed and published by J. Keymer, 1814), by Robert Cory (page images at HathiTrust)

• The popular superstitions and festive amusements of the Highlanders of Scotland (Aylott and Jones, 1851), by William Grant Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)

• The popular superstitions and festive amusements of the Highlanders of Scotland, by William Grant Stewart (Gutenberg ebook)

• An Account of the Edinburgh Reform Jubilee, celebrated 10th August 1832 : also the Leith Reform Jubilee, celebrated same day. With an authentic description of the flags, banners, models, &c. carried in the processions (Adam Black; W. Tait; Oliver & Boyd, 1832), by William Millar (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cyfansoddiadau buddugol Eisteddfod Dalaethol Gwynedd, Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1891, yn nghyda beirniadaethau, hanes yr Eisteddfod, papyrau ac areithiau. (H. Evans, 1892), by Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales (1891 : Blaenau Ffestiniog) and pseud Elfyn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cyfansoddiadau buddugol Eisteddfod Blaenau Llangernyw, yr hon a gynhaliwyd Mehefin, 26ain, 1856. (Argraphedig gan J. Williams, Heol-y-Dyffryn, 1856), by Eisteddfod (1856 : Blaenau Llangernyw) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Barddoniaeth fuddugol Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Caernarfon, 1877: yn nghyda Hanes cyflawn o'r Eisteddfod, yn cynwys yr areithiau, &c. ("Y Genedl Gymreig", 1878), by Wales) Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales (1877 : Caernarvon, Aberystwyth United Theological College, and Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru (1877: Caernarfon) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Eos dyfed, sef Rhai o'r cyfansoddiadau a anfonwyd i eisteddfod Caerfyrddin, medi 24, 25, 1823. (J. Harris, 1824), by Wales) Eisteddfod (1823 : Carmarthon and Thomas Burgess (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two essays on the subjects proposed by the Cambrian society in Dyfed which gained the respective prizes at the eisteddfod held at Caermarthen in July, 1819. To which is added an account of the proceedings at the eisteddfod. (printed by J. Harris, 1822), by Wales) Eisteddfod (1819 : Caermarthen, John Jones, Walter Davies, and Cambrian Society in Dyfed (page images at HathiTrust)

• Blaenffrwyth Ardudwy. Y cyfansoddiadau buddugol yn Eisteddfod Ffestiniog, 1854. (Argraffwyd gan R. Jones, 1855), by Eisteddfod (1854 : Ffestiniog) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gwyndudion, sef Awdlau, cywyddau, cathlau, traethodau ac englynion a ddanfonwyd i eisteddfod Llanerchymedd, mehefin, 1835. (J.T. Jones, 1835), by Eisteddfod (1835 : Llanerchymedd) and Eisteddfod Llanerchymedd (1835) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hanes a chyfansoddiadau arobryn Eisteddfod Llanerchymedd 1911. (Cymdeithas Eisteddfod Gadeiriol Môn, 1912), by Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales (1911 : Llanerchymedd) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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