ABSTRACT
In 1874 McCorquodale & Co. Ltd of Leeds published an octavo-size edition of the printed Hereford Missal of 1502 edited by W. G. Henderson as Missale ad usum percelebris ecclesiæ Herfordensis.1 This appears to have been limited to only 250 copies,2 thus making it scarce. Henderson was headmaster of Leeds Grammar School at the time, a post he held until 1884, when he was appointed dean of Carlisle.3 He was an active member of the Surtees Society, which published the York Pontifical in 1873,4 the York Missal in two parts in 1874,5 and the York Manual and Processional the following year.6 Work outside the remit of the Surtees Society included an edition of the Sarum Processional published in 1882, also printed by McCorquodale.7 Henderson died at Carlisle in 1905. His edition of the Hereford Missal was republished in Switzerland in 1969 by Gregg International Publishers Ltd of Farnborough, Hampshire (UK),8 at a considerable price reflecting the general unavailability of the original, and has more recently been reprinted in paperback by Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish, Montana (USA). Copies of the Gregg reprint are equally difficult to obtain, and, like the scarcer 1874 original, are confined mainly to major libraries.9
