The Freemason's Magazine or General and Complete Library. Volume III. Being six issues, July to December 1794. Each with printed title and contents leaf. With an engraved general title "The Free-Mason's Magazine".
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Shaftesbury, Dorset, United Kingdom
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Printed for the Proprietor and Sold by J. Parsons, London, 1795. 8vo (8 1/2 inches), 450-pages plus unpaginated index. Contemporary mottled brown calf, corners rubbed. Recently rebacked in sympathetic calf with raised bands and burgundy lettering piece. Original marbled endpapers retained. The binding very sound, internally some foxing and browning but overall very good. With engraved plates, as under, all with tissue guards. 1). Portrait of His Royal Highness Henry Frederick, late Duke of Cumberland & Strathern dedicated "To the Grand Lodge of England". 2). H.R.H. Prince Edward. 3). Mr Andrew Brice. 4). "Fortitude". 5). The Rev'd William Peters, Provincial Grand Master of the County of Lincoln. & 6). Tipping Brown M.P. P.S.G.W. for the County of Durham, Master of the Phoenix Lodge, Suderland.Whilst there is much Masonic content there is much else of a more diverse nature, e.g. an interesting "Account of Norfolk Island [ In a letter from an Officer dated Norfolk Island November 19, 1793"; "Anecdote of Kamhi Emperor of China"; & an "Authentic and Interesting Narrative of the Adventures of the Mutineers who piratically seized his Majesty's Ship Bounty. Never before published", etc. Uncommon.
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- Bristow and Garland (GB)
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- The Freemason's Magazine or General and Complete Library. Volume III. Being six issues, July to December 1794. Each with printed title and contents leaf. With an engraved general title "The Free-Mason's Magazine".
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- PERIODICAL:
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- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
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- Printed for the Proprietor and Sold by J. Parsons, London, 1795.
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Bristow and Garland
Biblio member since 2005
Shaftesbury, Dorset
About Bristow and Garland
Long established antiquarian & secondhand booksellers and dealers in autographs and manuscripts.
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- Calf
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- Rebacked
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