Playford's English Dancing Master
A hugely influential collection of dances and dance tunes,
first published by John Playford in 1651, but which had run
to eighteen editions by 1728:
The English Dancing Master Or,
Plaine and easie Rules for the Dancing of Country Dances,
with the Tune to each Dance. L O N D O N, Printed by Thomas
Harper, and are to be sold by John Playford, at his Shop in
the Inner Temple neere the Church doore. 1 6 5 1.