The History of Freemasonry, Volume 2

1883, first edition of this volume of Gould's comprehensive history

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Printing Details

First edition. Large hardback, bound in the original blue cloth with gilt titling and design to spine and upper board. 29 × 22.5cm, pp253–504.

Illustrated with portraits of notable freemasons, and a sheet of masons' marks, this volume's contents are:

1. Medieval Operative Freemasonry,

2. The Statutes Relating to Freemasons,

3. Early British Freemasonry (Scotland),

4. Masons' Marks

5. The Quatuor Coronati (The Four Crowned or Four Four Holy Martyrs),

6. Apocryphal Manuscripts.

Condition

This copy is in very good condition for age. There is light rubbing to the boards and some light marking / tanning. Blotchy foxing to the prelims but the main body of text has clean pages and secure binding.

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