At this point a well-known purveyor of second-hand folk books offers his services.

(Though I think I don't have any copies of Sharp's Country Dance Music at the moment - they were sold as a set - both the originals and the repros).

As far as others were concerned I recently sold a book by a man called Thos. Wilson - the last of the dancing masters, who went off the scene around 1830. There were in fact two books one with a large number of tunes but if anyone wants to see what this sort of thing looks like, then it is on the web. This is the Library of Congress copy - and is the book of instructions so there are no tunes. You might find it interesting to start at page 185 but the whole thing is both amusing and informative.

RVWML have copies of the book with the tunes in, and the book purchaser kindly allowed his copy to be digitised by the Village Music Project which Malcolm mentioned earlier so there are copies there.

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=musdi&fileName=171//musdi171.db&recNum=6&itemLink=r%3Fammem%2Fmusdibib%3A%40field%28