Bibliography

Christmas Carols

Notable Collections:

Rychard Kele, Christmas Carolles Newly Inprynted (London: Rychard Kele, ca. 1545): PDF

Davies Gilbert, Some Ancient Christmas Carols (London: John Nichols and Son)

1st ed. (1822): PDF
2nd ed. (1823): PDF

The Christmas Box; or, New Year’s Gift (1825): OCLC | Reprint (1889): Google

William Sandys, Christmas Carols Ancient & Modern (London: Richard Beckley, 1833): PDF

Thomas Wright, Specimens of Old Christmas Carols (London: Percy Society, 1841): PDF

J.M. Neale & Thomas Helmore, Carols for Christmas-tide (1853/54): PDF

Edmund Sedding, A Collection of Antient Christmas Carols (London: Novello, 1860): WorldCat

Joshua Sylvester, A Garland of Christmas Carols (London: John Camden Hotten, 1861): PDF

Edmund Sedding, Antient Carols for Christmas and Other Tides (London: Masters and Son, 1863): WorldCat

William Husk, Songs of the Nativity (1866): Archive.org

John Stainer & Henry Bramley, Christmas Carols New and Old

1st series (Nos. 1–20, pp. 1–45, 1868): Archive.org
2nd series (Nos. 21–42, pp. 46–91, 1870): WorldCat
1st & 2nd series, illustrated (Nos. 1–42, 91 pp., 1871): PDF
3rd series (Nos. 43–70, pp. 92–180, 1878): WorldCat
Complete ed. (Nos. 1–70, 1879): Archive.org

R.R. Chope, Carols for Use in Church (London: Metzler & Co., 1875): Archive.org

George Ratcliffe Woodward, The Cowley Carol Book (1902, rev. 1912): Archive.org

Percy Dearmer & Martin Shaw, The English Carol Book (1913): Google

George Ratcliffe Woodward, The Cowley Carol Book, Second Series (1919): Archive.org

Charles L. Hutchins, Carols Old and Carols New (Boston: The Parish Choir, 1916): Archive.org

George Ratcliffe Woodward, The Cambridge Carol Book (London: SPCK, 1924): WorldCat

The Oxford Book of Carols (Oxford: University Press, 1928): WorldCat

William Llewellyn, The Novello Book of Carols (Novello, 1986).

The New Oxford Book of Carols (Oxford: University Press, 1992): WorldCat

Additional Bibliography:

William Sandys, Christmastide: Its History, Festivities, and Carols (London: John Russell Smith, ca. 1853): PDF

“Christmas Carols,” The Musical Times, vol. 28, no. 538 (1 Dec. 1887), pp. 716–720: PDF

Edward Bliss Reed, Christmas Carols Printed in the Sixteenth Century (Harvard University Press, 1932): WorldCat

Erik Routley, The English Carol (1958).

Vincent A. Lenti, “Gaudet chorus coelestium: The earliest Latin Christmas hymns,” The Hymn, vol. 45, no. 4 (Oct. 1994), pp. 19–22: HathiTrust

Carol Pemberton, “Shaping American Christmas Traditions: The Role of the Nineteenth Century,” The Hymn, vol. 45, no. 4 (Oct. 1994), pp. 10–15: HathiTrust

William E. Studwell, “The Christmas Carol as a cultural phenomenon,” The Hymn, vol. 45, no. 4 (Oct. 1994), pp. 6–9: HathiTrust

John M. Mulder & F. Morgan Roberts, 28 Carols to Sing at Christmas (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2015): Amazon

Gordon Giles, “The Cambridge Carol Book,” Occasional Paper, Ser. 3, No. 9 (Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 2017).