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Thompson Compleat Collection of 200 Country Dances, Vol. III (c.1775)
Publisher: Charles & Samuel Thompson (London), St. Paul's Church-Yard. c.1775, third bound volume of the Compleat Collection (Vols. I-II = LOC-1770c-THOMPSON). IMSLP scan. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1775c-Thompson-Compleat-3.txt (23.3 KB OCR). The front alphabetical table is recoverable; many of the figure texts are OCR-mangled by engraved-music plate-overlap. This pass ingests the clean title-list only; figure texts deferred to a future targeted-OCR pass. SIGNIFICANT ROSETTA: four of Thompson's 1771 annual titles recur in Vol. III -- Warwickshire Will, Cullodon Fight, The Norfolk Freeholders, The German Dance -- confirming the Thompson practice of recycling annual-series dances into the bound Compleat volumes. Completes the Thompson Compleat trio 1770c Vol. I + 1770c Vol. II + 1775c Vol. III as the largest English country-dance print-corpus of the 1770s. Publisher-competition bridge: slots between Walsh 1748 (LOC-1748-WALSH-*), Longman 1768 (LOC-1768-LONGMAN), and the post-1780 Straight/Randall series.Year: 1775Family: thompson-3Catalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Charles & Samuel Thompson (London), St. Paul's Church-Yard. c.1775, third bound volume of the Compleat Collection (Vols. I-II = LOC-1770c-THOMPSON). IMSLP scan. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1775c-Thompson-Compleat-3.txt (23.3 KB OCR). The front alphabetical table is recoverable; many of the figure texts are OCR-mangled by engraved-music plate-overlap. This pass ingests the clean title-list only; figure texts deferred to a future targeted-OCR pass. SIGNIFICANT ROSETTA: four of Thompson's 1771 annual titles recur in Vol. III -- Warwickshire Will, Cullodon Fight, The Norfolk Freeholders, The German Dance -- confirming the Thompson practice of recycling annual-series dances into the bound Compleat volumes. Completes the Thompson Compleat trio 1770c Vol. I + 1770c Vol. II + 1775c Vol. III as the largest English country-dance print-corpus of the 1770s. Publisher-competition bridge: slots between Walsh 1748 (LOC-1748-WALSH-*), Longman 1768 (LOC-1768-LONGMAN), and the post-1780 Straight/Randall series. (1775). Imported from local collection.