Dance

A collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress, with manuals dating from a rare 15th-century source (ca 1490) to 1929.

John Playford's three volumes eventually encompassed 1,053 unique dances and their music. Many were copied from one edition to the next so that the entire contents, with duplicates, amounts to 6,217 dances, including 186 tunes without dances and 3 songs. (See "External links")