The Purcell Society, founded in 1876 (principally by William Hayman Cummings) is an organization dedicated to making the complete musical works of Henry Purcell available.
Advances in musical scholarship and editorial techniques in the decades after the first volumes were issued meant that by the second half of the 20th century they were no longer meeting the needs of users.
Beginning in the 1960s, the Purcell Society began to issue revised versions of the scores.
Editors and committee members include, among others: All volumes of the complete work of Henry Purcell published by the Purcell Society are available in the Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin and the British Library in London.
The FAL library at the University of New Mexico has in its possession most of the volumes, with some added revised editions.