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 | 08589. Strachan - Northumbrian Masonry 1898
STRACHAN, John. (Q.C. Grand Registrar of England).: Northumbrian Masonry and the Development of the Craft in England. London: Bro George Kenning, 1898. 1st edition. In a very good half leather binding. 8vo. 8.5" x 5.5" x 1". [8pp.]/pp.8/pp.220 . Original brown half calf over light brown buckram. Spine carefully repaired, preserving the remains of the original gilt title. Decorated endpapers, with various previous owners details, including a stamp for: Provincial Grand Lodge of Northumberland Library & Museum. Illustrated with a sepia frontis of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, and a full-page black & white picture of a steeple. Contents includes: British, Roman, and Saxon Masonry; Norman Masonry and the Development of the Craft; Masonry an Organised System; The Development of Symbolic Masonry; Under Grand Lodges; Important 18th century Documents; Under Rival Grand Lodges; The Union of the Grand Lodges; Following the Union; The Victorian Era. Appendix: Canon Tristram's Masonic Orations; The Alnwicke Constitutions; The Orders or Rules of the Alnwicke Lodge, plus, the Masonic Song -"We're a' John Tamson's Bairns" (words and music). A very good copy of a scarce book
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| 08618. Castells - Apocalypse of Freemasonry 1925
CASTELLS, Francis de Paula .: Apocalypse of Freemasonry. A constructive scheme of Interpretation of the Symbolism of the Masonic Lodge. By The Revd. F. de P. Castells London: A Lewis, 13 Paternoster Row, E.C.4, 1925 . A very clean early reprint of the first edition of 1924. 8vo. 6.75 x 4.5" x 1" pp.227/[5pp. - Adverts] . Clean blue cloth, with bright gilt titles to both front board and spine. Clean text throughout. VG. "Contains considerations of the sources of these symbols, underlying the ceremonies practiced by the Freemasons of the present day. "...there is a system of philosophy which is based on the lofty conception of the Most High God as a Being who in dwells the Light, and is Himself "light." Those who are in fellowship with Him, enjoy His light, even in the dark. If, therefore, we would grasp the meaning and purpose of what is said and done in the Lodge, we must keep this fundamental thought uppermost in our mind. In His light shall we see light." Dedication on front end paper. Library withdrawn copy.
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| 08368. Fellows - Mysteries of Freemasonry 1857
FELLOWS, John .: The Mysteries of Freemasonry; or, An exposition of the religious dogmas and customs of the ancient Egyptians : showing from the origin, nature and object of the rites and ceremonies of remote antiquity, their identity with the order of modern masonry with some remarks on the metamorphoses of Apuleius. An Analysis of Freemasonry in which the symbols and original intention of the Institution are explained. To which is added a Defence of Freemasonry. With numerous illustrative woodcuts. London: John Higden, 53 Holywell St Strand 1857. 8vo. pp.366. A very good original binding front cover detached from spine. Blue cloth with bright gilt titles and symbols to spine. Edges lightly rubbed. Original yellow endpapers. Clean text throughout, with illustrated frontis ("The Royal Arch"). Other illustrations dispersed through text. Early dated edition. Library withdrawn copy.
NOTE: Excerpt from Introduction: "...The intention of this work is to endeavour to unravel the intricate web in which the mystery is involved, by tracing the order back to its source, and by showing its intimate connection and similitude to institutions more ancient, put it beyond a doubt, that it sprang from, and is a continuation of the rites and ceremonies observed in those establishments..."
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| 10309. Carlile - Exposure of Freemasonry The Republican 1825
Carlile, Richard bound copies of The Republican Volume 12. 1st Edition No 1 to No 16 London Friday Jul 8 to Friday Oct 21, 1825. First page headed An Exposure of Freemasonry Total 16 issues of the publication 512 pages cloth bound leather spine with gilt title. Marbled end paper and edges. Excellent clean copy. Carlile composed his anti-Masonic publication whilst in jail in Dorchester and first published it in his magazine The Republican and later as a separate book in various volumes. Library woithdrawn copy
NOTE: Richard Carlile (1790 - 1843) English journalist and radical reformer, born in Ashburton, Devon. He became a chemist's boy and a tinman's apprentice. A disciple of Thomas Paine, he sold the prohibited radical weekly Black Dwarf throughout London in 1817. He then printed thousands of Southey's Wat Tyler, reprinted William Hone's Parodies, and wrote a series of imitations of them, for which he got 18 weeks in the King's Bench. This was the first of a series of imprisonments whose total amounted to nine years and four months, and which included sentences for publishing his own Political Litany and Paine's works, and a journal, The Republican (1819-26). [Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th edition, 1990] . In 1825 Richard Carlile's Manual of Freemasonry was first published in weekly issues of The Republican in London; portions were eventually published in book form in 1831; and the full version appeared in 1843 . Carlile's work included the first expose of some of the higher degrees of Freemasonry.
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