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[BIBLE, in English]. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments… Philadelphia: A.J. Holman & Co., 1883. Thick 4to. Numerous engravings, maps and in text vignettes. Original padded morocco gilt (joints rubbed with some splitting near crown, some edge wear). Provenance: PREVIOUSLY OWNED BY A DESCENDANT OF A MAYFLOWER PASSENGER. Inserted with 2 manuscript pages of lineage showing both the Paddock family (descends from passenger John Alden) and the Burgess family (descends from passenger Richard Warren), the last name on this list being the former owner Lydia Jamieson Gnagy (1893–1920) who descends from Edith May Burgess. Also with other manuscript notations of continued lineages on several leaves’ verso.