Dancing, Which Is Now Profane, Was Once a Sacred Pastime (1834)

My Daughter's Book: Containing a Selection of Approved Readings in Literature, Science, and Art, Adapted to the Formation of the Character of Woman (London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1834), 241

Before Her Highness, Surprising Feats of Agility in Goings, Turnings, Tumblings, Castings, Hops, Jumps, Leaps, Skips, Springs, Gambauds, Somersaults, Caprettings, and Flights Forward, Backward, Sideways, Downward, Upward, and with Sundry Windings, Gyrings, and Circumflections (1801)

Joseph Strutt, The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England: from the Earliest Period, Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Pageants, Processions and Pompous Spectacles Illustrated by Reproductions of Ancient Paintings in Which Are Represented Most of the Popular Diversions, A New Addition, Much Enlarged and Corrected by J. Charles Cox (London: Methuen and Company, 1801), 177.

The Shoots Are of a Pale Yellow Colour, and the Shredded Leaves Fall like a Fringe Round the Thighs (1895)

Lilly Grove, Dancing, with Musical Examples (London: Longman, Green, and Company, 1895), 86.

La Russe, or the Allies, at Tivoli (1898)

Gaston Vullier, Illustrated by Joseph Grego, History of Dancing from the Earliest Ages to Our Own Times (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898), 315.

Bohemian Polka (1890)

M.B. Gilbert, Round Dancing (Portland, Maine: M.B. Gilbert, 1890), 54.

The Extended Arms and the Lady's Hand Grasping the Gentleman's Arm Are Not in Good Taste (1885)

Allen Dodsworth, Dancing and Its Relations to Education and Social Life: With a New Method of Instruction (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1885), 275.

False Positions (1892)

Edward Scott, Dancing as an Art and Pastime (London: George Bell and Sons, 1892), 29.

Sometimes the Jig is Danced Before the March (1864)

Thomas Hillgrove, A Complete Practical Guide to the Art of Dancing: Containing Descriptions of All Fashionable and Approved Dances, Full Directions for Calling the Figures, the Amount of Music Required; Hints on Etiquette, the Toilet, etc. (New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, 1864), 89.

Defects of the Physical Construction of the Bow-Legged and Close-Legged Dancer (1830)

C. Blasis, translated by R. Barton, The Code of Terpsichore: The Art of Dancing (London: Edward Bull, 1830), plate III.

The Skirt Dance Has Unfortunately Gone down to the Wretched and Utterly Contemptible Level of the “Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay” (1895)

Lilly Grove, Dancing, with Musical Examples (London: Longman, Green, and Company, 1895), 6.

Among the Most Important Rudiments of the Terpsichorean Art (1859)

Edward Ferrero, The Art of Dancing, Historically Illustrated: to Which Is Added a Few Hints on Etiquette; Also, the Figures, Music, and Necessary Instruction for the Performance of the Most Modern and Approved Dances, as Executed at the Private Academies of the Author (New York: Published by the Author, 1859), 118.

Familiarity Will Accustom the Limbs and Body to the Mechanism of the Steps (1914)

Troy and Margret West Kinney,  demonstrated by John Murray Anderson, Social Dancing To-Day (New York: Frederick Stokes Company, 1914), 6.

Then Every Man Began / to Foot It Round about / and Every Girl Did Jet It, Jet It, / Jet It in and out (1882)

Illustrated by G.A. Konstam, E. Cassella, and N. Cassella, The Maypole (London: Thomas De La Rue & Company, 1882), 10.