The collection of Richard Powers
Primary Sources - Historical Social Dance
Chronological listing

78% of the 2,550 sources in my collection are the original editions. 13% are digital scans. 9% are printed facsimile reproductions.

Where dates of publication are not given, dates are estimated. c. = circa.

Most of these primary sources are dance manuals. Stand-alone descriptions of a single dance are noted with » before the title.

Some of these sources from my collection can be downloaded here.

Dancing master and social dance periodicals like Dancing Times and La Danse are included in this listing. Newspaper articles are not. Also not listed are books about theatrical dance, etiquette books, fiction/satire about dance, country and folk dance, secondary sources, and dance histories. Contact me if you would like a listing of my sources in any of those categories (see the bottom of this page).

Anti-dance books are listed here.

c.	1450	Domenico	da Piacenza	DE ARTE SALTANDI ET CHOREAS DUCENDI	Paris Ms.
	1455	Antonio	Cornazano	LIBRO DELL'ARTE DEL DANZARE	Rome Ms.
	1455	Antonio	Cornazano	THE BOOK ON THE ART OF DANCING, translated by Madeleine Inglehearn & Peggy Forsyth, 1981	London
	1463	Guglielmo	Ebreo	DE PRATICA SEU ARTE TRIPUDII VULGARE OPUSCULUM	Paris Ms.
	1463	Guglielmo	Ebreo	DE PRATICA SEU ARTE TRIPUDII Barbara Sparti translation	Oxford
c.	1465	Guglielmo	Ebreo	TRATTATO DELL'ARTE DEL BALLO... Zambrini ed	Florence Ms.
	1488	Michel	Toulouze	L'ART ET INSTRUCTION DE BIEN DANCER	Paris
	1521	Robert	Coplande	THE MANNER OF DAUNCYNGE OF BACE DAUNCES...	London
	1581	Fabritio	Caroso	IL BALLARINO	Venice
	1589	Thoinot	Arbeau	ORCHESOGRAPHIE 1925 Cyril Beaumont Special Edition on handmade paper, #12 of 40, signed by Beaumont	London
	1589	Thoinot	Arbeau	ORCHESOGRAPHIE 1967 Julia Sutton edition	New York
	1589	Thoinot	Arbeau	ORCHESOGRAPHIE 1948 Mary Stewart Evans edition	London
	1589	Thoinot	Arbeau	ORCHESOGRAPHIE	Langres
	1590	Giovanni	Boccaccio	IL DECAMERONE (early mention of Medieval dances by name)	Venice
	1600	Fabritio	Caroso	DELLA NOBILTA DI DAME	Venice
	1602	Cesare	Negri	LE GRATIE D'AMORE	Milan
	1604	Cesare	Negri	NUOVE INVENTIONI DI BALLI	Milan
	1607	Livio Lupi da	Carravaggio	LIBRO DI GAGLIARDA, TORDIGLIONE, PASSO...	Palermo
	1623	F. de	Lauze	APOLOGIE DE LA DANSE (1952 Joan Wildeblood translation)
c.	1630	John	Ramsey	PRACTICE FOR DAUNCINGE
	1651	John	Playford, ed.	THE ENGLISH DANCING MASTER Dance Books Ltd. reprint	London
	1670	John	Playford, ed.	THE DANCING MASTER, Fourth Edition	London
c.	1688	André	Lorin	LIVRE DE LA CONTRADANCE DU ROY, PRESENTE A SA MAJESTE	Versailles
	1698	John	Playford, ed.	THE DANCING-MASTER: Or, Directions for Dancing Country Dances	London
	1699	Thomas	Bray	COUNTRY DANCES: BEING A COMPOSITION ENTIRELY NEW…	London

c.	1450	Domenico	da Piacenza	DE ARTE SALTANDI ET CHOREAS DUCENDI	Paris Ms.
	1455	Antonio	Cornazano	LIBRO DELL'ARTE DEL DANZARE	Rome Ms.
	1455	Antonio	Cornazano	THE BOOK ON THE ART OF DANCING, translated by Madeleine Inglehearn & Peggy Forsyth, 1981	London
	1463	Guglielmo	Ebreo	DE PRATICA SEU ARTE TRIPUDII VULGARE OPUSCULUM	Paris Ms.
	1463	Guglielmo	Ebreo	DE PRATICA SEU ARTE TRIPUDII Barbara Sparti translation	Oxford
c.	1465	Guglielmo	Ebreo	TRATTATO DELL'ARTE DEL BALLO... Zambrini ed	Florence Ms.
	1488	Michel	Toulouze	L'ART ET INSTRUCTION DE BIEN DANCER	Paris
	1521	Robert	Coplande	THE MANNER OF DAUNCYNGE OF BACE DAUNCES...	London
	1581	Fabritio	Caroso	IL BALLARINO	Venice
	1589	Thoinot	Arbeau	ORCHESOGRAPHIE 1925 Cyril Beaumont Special Edition on handmade paper, #12 of 40, signed by Beaumont	London
	1589	Thoinot	Arbeau	ORCHESOGRAPHIE 1967 Julia Sutton edition	New York
	1589	Thoinot	Arbeau	ORCHESOGRAPHIE 1948 Mary Stewart Evans edition	London
	1589	Thoinot	Arbeau	ORCHESOGRAPHIE	Langres
	1590	Giovanni	Boccaccio	IL DECAMERONE (early mention of Medieval dances by name)	Venice
	1600	Fabritio	Caroso	DELLA NOBILTA DI DAME	Venice
	1602	Cesare	Negri	LE GRATIE D'AMORE	Milan
	1604	Cesare	Negri	NUOVE INVENTIONI DI BALLI	Milan
	1607	Livio Lupi da	Carravaggio	LIBRO DI GAGLIARDA, TORDIGLIONE, PASSO...	Palermo
	1623	F. de	Lauze	APOLOGIE DE LA DANSE (1952 Joan Wildeblood translation)
c.	1630	John	Ramsey	PRACTICE FOR DAUNCINGE
	1651	John	Playford, ed.	THE ENGLISH DANCING MASTER Dance Books Ltd. reprint	London
	1670	John	Playford, ed.	THE DANCING MASTER, Fourth Edition	London
c.	1688	André	Lorin	LIVRE DE LA CONTRADANCE DU ROY, PRESENTE A SA MAJESTE	Versailles
	1698	John	Playford, ed.	THE DANCING-MASTER: Or, Directions for Dancing Country Dances	London
	1699	Thomas	Bray	COUNTRY DANCES: BEING A COMPOSITION ENTIRELY NEW…	London

The collection of Richard Powers Primary Sources - Historical Social Dance Chronological listing

The collection of Richard Powers
Primary Sources - Historical Social Dance
Chronological listing