Stanley Kennedy North folk dance book, 1921
Stanley North, by then calling himself Stanley Kennedy North, in recognition of his marriage to Helen Kennedy, illustrated and (presumably) produced this marvellous little book, Mr North’s Maggot (so called after a folk dance formulation). It is dedicated to Helen and has a foreword by Cecil Sharp, the great revivalist (and preserver) of the form and founder of the English Folk Dance and Song Society.
Here are two galleries of SKN’s Maggot. The first has smallish images and alterates the illustrations with related scraps of lyric:
The second has larger, cropped images, and text and illustrations are unsorted:
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