ABSTRACT
The mere ten years covered by this chapter focus particularly on Fuller Maitland’s edition of the Trinity carol roll (the earliest complete edition of a fifteenth-century songbook anywhere, though the next one was done by Riemann in the very next year) and the family of Sir John Stainer, with their magnificent edition of the Selden manuscript. One detail is that Sir John Stainer was probably the first person to recognize the full power and historical importance of the carols, though his unexpected death deprived him of the chance to say so.
