Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1771. With proper tunes and directions to each dance as they are perform'd at Court & all polite Assembly's: set for the Violin, German Flute or Hautboy (Randall, London 1770-1771)

Dance manual/reference by William Randall, Successor to the late Mr. Walsh / Catharine-Street in the Strand, London. Distributed at Tylee's Music-Shop, near Queen-Square, Bath (Harpsichords, Piano-Fortes, Guitars, etc. for Sale or Hire). Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1771-Randall-Country_(IMSLP).txt (Gale ECCO / IMSLP scan, ~4 KB OCR). HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: Randall is the DIRECT LONDON WALSH-SUCCESSOR imprint at Catharine-Street after the death of John Walsh Jr. (1766). This 1771 annual positions Randall as the primary competitor to Thompson (LOC-1771-THOMPSON-24) and Longman (LOC-1768-LONGMAN, LOC-1770-LONGMAN-COUNTRY) in the early-1770s London country-dance annual market. Randall inherits and continues the Walsh country-dance publishing franchise (1699-1766) including advertised reprints of: (1) Caledonian Dances — Scotch & English Dances in 10 Books; (2) Sixteen Cotillons or French Dances Perform'd at all Polite Assembly's; (3) Handel's Favourite Marches 4 Books, Minuets 4 Books, Comic Tunes 8 Volumes; (4) The Compleat Country Dancing Master in 7 Volumes containing above 1200 Dances (the direct Walsh → Randall corpus predecessor to Thompson 1770c Compleat Collection Vols I-III). Has_Step_Detail = No: engraved-music plate overlap in the IMSLP scan severely corrupted the dance-title OCR, leaving only 4 titles reliably recoverable (The New Manager, Wadling Tom, Denmark Hall #17, Corsican Dance #18); the remaining ~20 titles are deferred for manual facsimile review. Registered for corpus completeness and Walsh-successor attestation. (1771). Imported from local collection.