Editing Paston Letters (section)

===Edited by James Gairdner===
Fenn's edition of the ''Paston Letters'' was considered definitive until 1872, when James Gairdner published the first volume of a new edition. Taking Fenn's work as a basis, Gairdner ultimately published over four hundred previously unpublished letters in three volumes.<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43810414 | jstor=43810414 | title=The Cheapness of a Cheap Edition of 'The Paston Letters' | last1=Reeves | first1=John Baptist | journal=Blackfriars | date=1924 | volume=5 | issue=57 | pages=513–525 | doi=10.1111/j.1741-2005.1924.tb06767.x | url-access=subscription }}</ref> Gairdner's edition included notes and an index, and introductions to each volume containing a survey of the reign of King [[Henry VI of England|Henry VI]]. Before he had published all the volumes of his edition, some letters that he had written about were discovered in 1875 at [[Roydon, South Norfolk|Roydon]]. These unpublished letters were added as a supplement to a subsequent three-volume edition published in 1896. In 1904 Gairdner edited a complete edition of the ''Paston Letters'' in six volumes, containing 1,088 letters and papers with a new introduction.

====List of volumes====

=====1896 edition=====
''The Paston Letters 1422–1509 AD: A New Edition First Published in 1874 Containing Upwards of Four Hundred Letters, Etc., Hitherto Unpublished. Edited by James Gairdner of the Public Record Office''
*[https://archive.org/details/pastonletters01gairiala Volume 1, ''Henry VI 1422–1461'', Westminster, 1896]
*[https://archive.org/details/pastonlettersad101gairuoft Volume 2, ''Edward IV 1461–1471'', Westminster, 1896]
*[https://archive.org/stream/pastonletters03gairiala#page/n3/mode/2up Volume 3, ''Edward IV – Henry VII 1471–1509'', Westminster, 1896]

=====1900/1910 edition=====
''Paston Letters 1422–1509 AD: A Reprint of the Edition of 1872–5 which Contained upwards of Five Hundred Letters, etc., till then Unpublished to Which are now Added Others in a Supplement after the Introduction. Edited by James Gairdner of the Public Record Office''
*[https://archive.org/details/pastonlettersrep01gairiala Volume 1, ''Henry VI 1422–1461'', Edinburgh, 1910]
*[https://archive.org/details/pastonlettersrep02gairiala Volume 2, ''Edward IV 1461–1471'', Edinburgh, 1910]
*[https://archive.org/details/pastonlettersad12gairgoog Volume 3, ''Edward IV – Henry VII'', Westminster, 1900] [https://archive.org/details/pastonlettersrep03gairiala Edinburgh, 1910]

=====1904 edition=====
''The Paston Letters AD 1422–1509: New Complete Library Edition, Edited with Notes and an Introduction by James Gairdner of the Public Record Office''
*[https://archive.org/details/pastonlettersad101gairuoft Volume 1, London & Exeter, 1904]
*[https://archive.org/details/pastonlettersad02gairuoft Volume 2, London & Exeter, 1904]
*[https://archive.org/details/pastonletters03gairuoft Volume 3, London & Exeter, 1904]
*[https://archive.org/details/pastonlettersad04gairiala Volume 4, London & Exeter, 1904]
*[https://archive.org/details/pastonletters05gairuoft Volume 5, London & Exeter, 1904]
*[https://archive.org/details/pastonletters06gairuoft Volume 6, London & Exeter, 1904]