Abby Sale, thanks for the info on and from the Levy book. I'll look for it myself, too.

GUEST,Q, a more readable dance description is on page 4 of Pop goes the weasel for Fun & frolic with a full description of the figures. 1850 (Baltimore, Maryland, Miller & Beacham, [185-?]) (Click here). "Pop Goes the Weasel" as a contra dance is fully described in a dance instruction book Dick's quadrille call-book, and ball-room prompter ... To which is added a sensible guide to etiquette and proper deportment in the ball and assembly room, besides seventy pages of dance music for the piano (New York, Dick & Fitzgerald [c1878], pp. 95-97; p. 185 [music]). An illustration of the dance "As Performed at the Court Balls" is given to Pop Goes the Weasel; La Tempete; and Le Grand Pere. Three Fashionable Dances (London: Musical Bouquet Offices, n.d.) [at Levy].

~Masato