Dear WRG: I, too, would like to own one of these wonderful sounding volumes. However, I don't have the $500.00 to spend on it either. I do have a copy of this work, nonetheless, that my wife had made for me from the microfilm at University Microfilms of Ann Arbor, Michigan. I believe that it cost somewhere in the vicinity of $50.00. Most of the plates are pretty awful, done in muddy grayscale, and with no color, of course. OTOH, it does have all the contents of the book in readable form and has the various charts tipped in at the end in tiny but still readable print. Remembering that we have been disconnected from the line presented therein between John-1's father, Thomas Whitney of Westminster, and the father named for him in Melville, this is still a lot of fun to read and has much good information. For those of you who haven't yet heard about this separation, the relevant articles from The American Genealogist by Donald Lines Jacobus and Paul Reed are available on our website. I thought you all should know that there was a lower cost alternative to the new reprint Robert told us about. Allan E. Green