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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. [From the library of the Mayflower Society.] Bound in publisher's cloth. Top edge gilt. Hardcover. Library stamps and markings. Shelf wear. Gutters weakened with loose pages. Tears to head of spine. Some pages chipped. Sold with all faults. xliv, 639 p., portraits, illustrations, 26 cm. Other families chronicled include: Abbe, Babcock, Brown, Clark, Davis, Emmons, Halsey, Kitchell, Mather, Peck, Pratt, Selden, Sill, and Woodworth. Founded in 1897, the Mayflower Society, or General Society of Mayflower Descendants is a non-profit organization. Membership requires proof of lineage from one of the passengers who traveled to America on the Mayflower in 1620. Their educational mission includes telling the story of the Pilgrims as well as maintaining the highest standards possible for genealogy research into the lineage of the Pilgrims.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. School prize binding, presented by the author. Two-page prefatory note by the author written at S. John's College, Oxford, S. Catherine's Day, 1899. ***Very good in black full-leather boards with gilt floral decorative tooled borders, edges and inner borders, and gilt decorative tooled compartmented spine with gilt titles to red leather label to second compartment of spine. Armorial gilt shield embossed to front board. All edges of text-block colour-marbled. Colour-marbled front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. School Prize book plate to front board: Burford Grammar School , Christmas 1901 Scripture Prize presented by the Rev. W. H Hutton presented to H. J. Edmond by Henry J. Piggot, Headmaster. ***Corners and head and tail of boards slightly rubbed. Boards slightly rubbed. Small scuffs to leather of rear board. Boards clean. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***174 mm x 124mm. 3xi prelim-pages including prefatory note by the author and contents to the fore plus 300 pages including index to the rear. ***Chapters: I. The Church Before the Norman Conquest; II. The Church in the Middle Ages; III. The Reformation; IV. The Church Under The Stewarts; V. The Church in the Eighteenth Century; VI. The Nineteenth Century; Chronological Table of Important Events, Affecting the History of the Church in Great Britain; English Kings, Archbishops, and Bishops of London; Index. ***First printing of the true first edition, extremely hard to find especially in original full-leather gilt decorative bordered boards. A handsome full leather School Prize gilt binding. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.