Reece w h translator (1 Ergebnisse)

London, Simpkin & Marshall, 1862. 8vo. In contemporary (original?) blue boards with paper title-label to front board. With the translator's presentation inscription to a certain Henry Yates to front free end-paper. Binding with wear and scratches, internally brownspotted. (8), IX, 10-44 pp. Presentation-copy from the translator of the exceedingly rare first English translation of the anonoumously published french work on freemasons. Written in the form of a letter to an unnamed gentleman the work seeks to explain common misconceptions about Freemasonry while explaining the true aims of the Craft. It offers a fascinating insight into eighteenth-century masonry. Wolfstieg 30032. …