Here are scans of some tunebooks located in the British Library published between 1711 and 1818. Some of these tunes appear in my 2023 Big Band Tunebook.
Bland and Weller (Index of Bland and Weller tunes) (PDF FILE)
- Bland and Weller’s Annual Collection of Twentyfour Country Dances for the Year 1798 with their proper Figures for the Violin and German Flute. Performed at Court, Bath, & All Public Assemblys
Thomas Cahusac and William Cahusac (Index of Cahusac) (PDF FILE)
- Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1785 With proper Directions to each dance as they are Perform’d at Court, Bath & all Public Assemblies.
- Twelve Country Dances With their Basses for the Year 1788 with proper Directions to each Dance, as they are Performed at Court, Bath & all Public Assemblys
- Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1790 With proper Directions to each dance as they are Perform’d at Court, Bath & all Public Assemblies.
- Twelve Country Dances With their Basses for the Year 1790 with proper Directions to each Dance, as they are Performed at Court, Bath & all Public Assemblys
- Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1791 With proper Directions to each dance as they are Perform’d at Court, Bath & all Public Assemblies.
- Twelve Country Dances With their Basses for the Year 1792 with proper Directions to each Dance, as they are Performed at Court, Bath & all Public Assemblys
- Twelve Country Dances With their Basses for the Year 1792 with proper Directions to each Dance, as they are Performed at Court, Bath & all Public Assemblys (Cahusac’s Dances 1811)
- Twelve Country Dances With their Basses for the Year 1793 with proper Directions to each Dance, as they are Performed at Court, Bath & all Public Assemblys
- Twelve Country Dances With their Basses for the Year 1794 with proper Directions to each Dance, as they are Performed at Court, Bath & all Public Assemblys
- Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1798 With proper Directions to each dance as they are Perform’d at Court, Bath & all Public Assemblies.
- Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1799 With proper Directions to each dance as they are Perform’d at Court, Bath & all Public Assemblies.
- Cahusac’s Annual Collection of Twelve favorite Country Dances, with their Basses, For the Year 1800 with proper Directions to each Dance, as they are Performed at Court, Bath, and all Public Assemblys
- Cahusac’s Annual Collection of Twelve favorite Country Dances, with their Basses, For the Year 1801 with proper Directions to each Dance, as they are Performed at Court, Bath, and all Public Assemblys (W.M. Cahusac)
- W. M Cahusac’s Annual Collection of Twentyfour favorite Country Dances For the Year 1811 with proper Directions to each Dance, as they are Performed at Court, Bath, and all Public Assemblies. (W.M.Cahusac)
- Cahusac’s Dances 1813 (79 High Holburn)
Nathaniell Kynaston (Index of Kynaston) (PDF FILE)
- Twenty Four New Country Dances For the Year 1711 With proper new Tunes, & Figures, or Directions to each Dance.
- Twenty Four New Country Dances For the Year 1714 With proper new Tunes, & Figures, or Directions to each Dance.
- Twenty Four New Country Dances For the Year 1716 With proper new Tunes, & Figures, or Directions to each Dance.
- Twenty Four New Country Dances For the Year 1718 With New Tunes and Figures to each Dance