The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments : translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised.

Inscription on recto of front free end-paper: "Mary C. Beal, presented by her father, William Beal" (this is Mary Comstock Beal [1848-1915], daughter of William Beal [1806-1872], and sister of William James Beal [1833-1924]); "Family Record" bears numerous inscriptions in several hands, documenting marriages, births, and deaths of Beal family members; marginal markings in pencil in numerous locations throughout (including bracketing of section on temperance on page 81 of concordance); scrap of brown wove paper found between pages 190 and 191; scrap of lined paper found between pages 12 and 13 (second sequence); printed sheet found between page 808 and recto of first plate, headed "Descendants of Joseph Beal present at Rollin at the first Beal reunion, August 20, 1908", with a printed list of attendees below; scrap of cream-colored laid paper found between page 92 (second sequence) and recto of rear free end-paper; laid-in materials removed, and now available in MSS 466; bookseller's pencil inscription on verso of rear free end-paper, including "$200.00" and "Beal family genealogy"; this book had likely been in the possession of W. J. Beal, botanist and professor at Michigan Agricultural College (now MSU), and eventually made its way to Curious Book Shop, East Lansing, and then on to the collection of the W. J. Beal Botanical Garden, from which it joined the MSU Libraries collection in May 2022.

MSU: Damage to leaf 2Z2 slightly affects text.

MSU: Laid-in material transferred to MSS 466, Box 8, Folder 96.

In publisher's full calf; stamp tooled in gilt; brown lettering piece on spine, stamped and lettered in gilt.