A Lexicon of Freemasonry; Containing a Definition of All its Communicable Terms, Notices of its History, Traditions and Antiquities, and An Account of all the Rites and Mysteries of the Ancient World
Author:
MACKEY, ALBERT G & CAMPBELL, DONALD (Revised by)
Title:
A Lexicon of Freemasonry; Containing a Definition of All its Communicable Terms, Notices of its History, Traditions and Antiquities, and An Account of all the Rites and Mysteries of the Ancient World
Publisher:
Charles Griffin & Co 1870
Description:
LACKS FEP, sm octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering & masonic illus to spine, gilt masonic illus & blind rule to front board, 444pp + 23pp catalogue to rear, G+ (heavy bruising & rubbing/chafing to spine & boards/edges with considerable surface loss, heavy cracking to rear hinge of spine- rear board partially detached, moderate to heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, front & rear eps missing, moderate to heavy foxing to pages throughout, several prev. owners' names in ink to prelims, v heavy cracking to gutters sporadically throughout, pgs 193-208 detached but present, other page segments partially detached but still tentatively hanging on, despite its pre-loved condition text block is still readable)
Keywords:
freemasons freemasonry masonic lexicon dictionary terms terminology rites secret societies history historical literature