The Compleat Collection of Two Hundred Favourite Country Dances, perform'd at Court, Bath, Tunbridge and all Public Assemblies, with proper Figures or Directions to each Tune, set for the Violin, German Flute, or Harpsichord, Volumes I and II (Printed by C. and S. Thompson, No. 75 St. Pauls Church Yard, London, c. 1757-1770; Vol. I originally 1757, Vol. II 1765, later reprintings through c. 1770)

Dance manual/reference by Charles & Samuel Thompson (London publishers active 1751-1793, St. Pauls Church Yard; brothers who issued the foundational 3-volume Compleat Collection and annual 24-Country-Dance-for-the-Year almanacs from 1757). Printed by C. and S. Thompson, No. 75 St. Pauls Church Yard, London; undated continuous-reprinting of Vol. I (1st ed 1757) and Vol. II (1st ed 1765) through c. 1770. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1770c-Thompson-Compleat-1 (21KB, 411 lines) + 1770c-Thompson-Compleat-2 (21KB, 453 lines); LOC digital-facsimile copies. OCR of engraved music-tablature heavily corrupted; title-index A-Z (~200 entries across the 2 volumes) and brief figure-prose under each engraved tune recoverable in part. STRUCTURE (per volume): Title-plate + alphabetical Dance-Title Index (A-W, with page-numbers 1-200) + 100 engraved pages, each containing 2 dances (one per half-page): engraved tune (treble + figured bass) + short figure-prose directly below the tune. Each dance 3-6 lines of progression-prose; typical longways-minor vocabulary (cast off, cross over, lead up to the top, foot it, right and left, gallop down/up, hands round, hands across, set contrary corners, half figure / whole figure, back to back). HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: THE LARGEST SINGLE-PUBLISHER CATALOG of 18c English country dances. Thompson's 3-volume Compleat Collection (Vol III = LOC-1775c-THOMPSON) consolidates 300 named country dances performed at the London Court (St. James's, Kew), the spa-town assemblies (Bath, Tunbridge Wells), and the public pleasure-garden / assembly-hall circuit (Vauxhall, Ranelagh, Almack's). Title-genre ecosystem: (a) topical-commemorative ('The Prince of Wales's Birth Day', 'Welcome from Hanover', 'Princess Augusta's Tamborine', 'Marshall Saxe's Tamborine', 'Prince George forever', 'The Jew's Restoration'); (b) place-based ('Trip to Maidenhead', 'Trip to Bath', 'Trip to Ranelagh', 'Trip to Coventry or Peeping Tom', 'Trip to the Jubilee', 'Westminster Bridge', 'Knebsworth Place', 'St James's Park', 'Cavendish Court'); (c) character-based ('Don Front in Brass', 'The Fig Leaf', 'The Drunken Scotchman', 'Abel Drugger', 'Billy Dimple', 'The Intrepid'); (d) Scots/Irish imports ('Flower of Edinburgh', 'The Irish Jigg', 'Cameronian Rant', 'The Scots Hall', 'The Drunken Scotchman'); (e) opera-tune borrowings ('Hie Pretty Millenet', 'The Temple Rakes', 'The Grand Parade'). CROSS-REFERENCE NETWORK: Thompson 1770c bridges Walsh 1748 (LOC-1748-WALSH-PART1, LOC-1748-WALSH-CALEDONIAN) and Longman 1768 (LOC-1768-LONGMAN) in the English country-dance publisher-competition, and serves as the direct Vol-I-II predecessor to LOC-1775c-THOMPSON (Vol. III). Has_Step_Detail = No — figure-level longways-prose throughout; no step-level tables (English country-dance notation tradition does not include step-level detail).. Imported from local collection.