The Colonial Ancestry of the Family of John Greene Briggs, son of Job Briggs, and Patience Greene, and Isabel Gibbs De Groff, daughter of William Stoutenburgh De Groff, and Susan Hopkins. 

by Harry Tallmadge Briggs and John Greene Briggs

First edition.  New York:  Printed at the Press of Benjamin H. Tyrrel, 1940 

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition.

• Blue cloth covers have illustration block and titles in gilt. 
• Boards show some wear, smudges, edgewear.  Corners are bumped, scuffed.  See photos.
• Spine has gilt text dimmed, with softened ends.
• Binding is strong. 
• Pastedowns and feps have a sheet attached with adhesive tape, some smudges, a gift inscription.  
• Frontispiece, a photographic portrait of one of the authors, is present.
• Ephemera, various printed sheets, are folded in.
• Illustrations, photo plates, are clear. 
• Interior is gently age-toned.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have a few marks. 
• PS2025.0417

498 pages. 7 3/8 x 10 1/8 inches

A Very Good copy of this work of genealogy tracing the Briggs and De Groff families from 1620 to 1940.  Publisher's blue cloth with gilt.  Boards and text block edges show some shelf wear, sheets of ephemera are inside covers; interior is unmarked.

As the Book Review of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (1945) noted, this volume incorporates considerable material on a number of colonists and their immediate descendants.  "The pedigree represents a blending of New England and Hudson Valley families with five Mayflower passengers included among the former."

Signed and inscribed on the front end paper by John Greene Briggs:  "To Benjamin Harold Tyrrel and Son Thomas, With Best Wishes 1940."  This book is a copy inscribed and given to the printer who was responsible for its production.  An obituary of Tyrrel inserted at the back cover notes that he was was "a well known proprietary printer in New York."

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