An Essay for the further Improvement of Dancing, being a Collection of Figure Dances, Of several Numbers, Compos'd by the most Eminent Masters; Described in Characters after the newest Manner of Monsieur Feuillet. By E. Pemberton. To which is Added, Three Single Dances, viz. A Chacone by Mr. Isaac, A Passacaille by Mr. L'Abbé, And a Jig by Mr. Pecour, Master of the Opera at Paris (Pemberton, London 1711)

Dance manual/reference by E. Pemberton (Edward Pemberton, fl. 1708-1730; English dancing-master and Feuillet-notation advocate) / London Printed, and Sold by J. Walsh at the Harp and Hautboy in Catherine-street near Somerset-House in the Strand; J. Hare at the Viol and Flute in Cornhill near the Royal-Exchange; and at the Author's next the Fire-Office in St. Martin's-Lane, 1711. Price Half a Guinea. Source: Library of Congress scan (1711-Pemberton-Essay_(LOC).txt) via the ABBYY TXT corpus. Dedicated to Her Grace the Duchess of Buckingham and Normanby (with a secondary dedication to Mr. Thomas Caverley as patron). Subscribers list: Allen of York, Aleworth, Ager of Warwick, Bosely, Brograve of Birmingham, Caverly Sr. and Jr., Couch, Camille, Christian of Blandford, Cottin, Delamain Jr. of Dublin, Doufon, Dehaver, Deacombe of Worcester, Eastland, Evans of Virginia, Essex, D'Elise, Eustone, Fern of Coventry, Firbank, Geare, La Garde, Griffith, Gavaine, Hinton, Haut on of York, Walter Holt, William Holt, Hart, Hickford, Hume, Hodgson of Leicester, Harwood, Hue, Jackson, Lally, Lane, Lewis of Newington, Morgan, More of Salisbury, Preist Sr. of Chelsea, Prince, Polehampton of Worcester, Pile of Hereford, Rhobotham, Rogers, Shirley, Stag of Bristol, Isaac of Chester, Thomas, Weaver, Wyat of Beckies, Walker — a who's-who of the early-18c English dancing-master profession, overlapping with the 1706 Weaver-Isaac and 1721 Weaver-Anatomical subscriber rolls. HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: The first English-press multi-composer FIGURE-DANCE collection in Beauchamp-Feuillet character notation, combining four Figure Dances (by Mr. Caverley, Mr. Prince, Mr. Couch, and Mr. Groscourt) with three Single Dances (Chacone by Isaac, Passacaille by L'Abbé, Jig by Pecour transcribed by Feuillet). Pemberton's Preface explicitly identifies the methodological lineage: Mr. Feuillet's *Treatise of Country Dances* translated by Mr. Essex; the Characteristic Letter V method; special-steps method per Mr. Weaver; and Mr. Legard's transcription method for L'Abbé's Passacaille. The 'very transmitting [of The Favourite] to Posterity is a sufficient Recompense' preface passage shows Pemberton's awareness of the corpus-preservation mission. Registered appearances cover seven of the enumerated works; step detail is in Feuillet character notation (not transcribed at this pass). (1711). Imported from local collection.