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       The Stock List     Jan 2012

Please check availability before ordering

      

 

 

BOOKS    1700 to 1812

 

1705    Scarborough Manuscript Roll  (Facsimile)   The original is now in the hands of the Grand Lodge of Canada. Approx 100 years ago Lodge Quatuor Coronati No 2076 produced a limited edition of this roll limited to 100 copies   This is roll no.17                                                                                                                                                                         £75.00

 

Bradford Manuscript Roll of the Old Constitutions of Masonry  Approx 100 years ago Lodge Quatuor Coronati No 2076 produced a limited edition of this roll limited to 100 copies   This is roll no.56                                                                                                             £75.00

 

1722 The Old “Roberts”  Constitutions belonging to the Ancient and Honourable Society of Free and Accepted masons   This is a Photostat of G W Speth’s copy in a card binding of the 1870 reprint by Richard Spencer                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                £55.00

 

 

 

1739  The Beginning and first Foundation of the Most Worthy Craft of Masonry with the Charges thereunto  belonging   Printed for Mrs Dodd  This is a Photostat of this publication

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                £55.00

                                                                       

 

The Regius Manuscript as published in 1757. This is a Quatuor Coronati facsimile from 1891 bound as original in red leather, . The Regius M/s is the oldest document referring to Freemasonry yet discovered. It was discovered in old documents in British Museum. Originally written in 1390 it was presented to King George II who presented it to the Nation. This is in the form of a poem. This book is extensive requoted and available in cheap reprints etc. This is a very rare Facsimile copy .

The only copy I have ever seen.                                                                                                                                                       £ Offers in excess of £300

 

THE FREEMASON’S CALENDAR  for 1790  lacks cover  46 pages                                 £TBA

(At present being bound in protective cover)

 

 

 

WILLIAM HUTCHINSON    The Spirit of Freemasonry   

    1987 reprint in paperback                                               £   8.00

 

                                                             The Spirit of Freemasonry     1843 reprint edited by George Oliver                                                                                                   sold - copy required

 

 

JOHN ROBINSON   Proofs of Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments…………….1797   Edinburgh  Early anti-masonic book Rebound in half-leather

This is a very scarce book in the 1797 edition                                                                                       £400.00

 

ALEX LAWRIE  History of Free-Masonry  the Grand Lodge of Scotland published in Edinburgh in 1804..                                                                                                                                                      £250.00

 

WILLIAM PRESTON     Illustations of Masonry  1804 Tenth edition rebound in  leather. This is one of the Masonic ‘Classics’                                                                                                           £125. 00

                               

                                                         Illustations of Masonry    The 1887 reprint of the 1772 edition by William Watson.. due to poor paper quality papers is browning                                                                                                                                                                                           £90.00

 

1806 JOHN ARMSTRONG  The Descent of Symbolic Masonry   Traced from Zoroaster

With a descriptive Account of all the Ancient Mysteries   with a signed dedication by the author                                                              £40.00                                                                                                                                                              

THE MASONIC LIBRARY

            Published in USA by Leon Hyneman this Masonic Library is in one Volume of  768 pages and comprises reprints of

Ahiman Rezon    2nd edition 72 pages

                A Dictionary of Symbolical Masonry by Rev Geo Oliver 226 pages

                The History of Initiation  by Rev Geo. Oliver    176 pages

                History of Freemasonry in England  by  Rev James O Halliwell   36 pages

                New book of Constitutions  James Anderson 1738    167 pages

                Laws and Constitution of the Grand Lodge of Scotland   74 pages

Also included is a list Grand Office bearers 1847-48 and Provincial Grand Masters 1848

½ leather bound in very good condition and  inexpensive collection of the rare Ahiman Rezon and 1738 Book of Constitutions                                                                                                               £185.00

 

BOOKS    1812-1912

ALABAMA HISTORY COMMISSION  Report of, to the Govenor of Alabama  Dec 1900 Vol 1. Copy dedicated to W J Hughan on f.ep. This contains a section of papers and books on Freemasonry                                                                                                                                £20.00

 

CONSTITUTIONS of the Antient Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons

Part the second     William Williams    1827                                                                                            £75.00

 

CONSTITUTIONS belonging to the Ancient and Honourable Society of Free and Accepted Masons of England and Ireland   Reprints of the First editions published in London  1722;1723;1726 Dublin 1730 edited by Rev John Edmund Cox   Published by Spencer 1871                                                                                                                                                                                                              £120.00

 

CONSTITUTION of FREEMASONRY (AHIMAN REZON) to which are added Certain Lectures, Charges and a Masonic Ritual   Dublin  1839 Printed by Brother William Underwood  Professionally rebound                                                                                                                               £95.00

 

 

REVISED BOOK  OF CONSTITUTIONS   critically considered and compared with the old Edition (1873)  Published  Simpkin Marshall & Co 1883  - a series of articles reprinted from the Freemason’s Chronicle. Paper cover is detached.                                                                                                           £20. 00

 

AUG C L ARNOLD      The Rationale and Ethics of Freemasonry published by Robt.Macoy New York  1859. Owner’s signature on fep and on one page in text.- paper browning     Rare            £80.00

 

JOHN ARMSTRONG       The Descent of Symbolic Masonry traced  from Zoroaster with a discriptive account of all the Ancient Mysteries  Soft back (repaired)1896 Liverpool and Signed by Author                                                                                                                                                             £20. 00

 

REG BEZZANT    A story of an ‘Antient Lodge’  A general short history of Freemasonry with particular reference to the Lodge of Temperance 169 with ‘Prize day at the RMIG’                    £30. 00

 

COLE’s Constitutions    Reproduced  in exact facsimile with an introduction by W J Hughan.  Produced in Leeds this is no.85 of an edition of 200 1897                                                            £200.00

 

JOHN EDMUND COX   The Old Constitutions belonging to the Ancient and Honourable Society of Free and Accepted masons of England and Ireland   PUBLISHED BY Richard Spencer 1871                                                                                                                                                                                        £ 65. 00

 

FRED J W CROWE   The Master Mason’s Handbook   with introduction by W J Hughan 

Kenning 1890                                                                                                               £25. 00

 

LAURENCE DERMOTT   The constitutions of Freemasonry  or  Ahiman Rezon  

Copies required especially 2nd edition

 

EUROPEAN MAGAZINE  Unbound copy for April 1817 with a report on the Provinical Meeting held at Bath 24th March 1817                                                                                                            £30.00

 

J FINLAY FINLAYSON  Symbols and Legends of Freemasonry published by George Kenning 1889 (ex Masonic Library stamp)   VG copy                                                                                                         £45.00

                                                       Symbols and Legends of Freemasonry a 1910 copy in VG condition

 ( small library sticker on inside front cover)                                                                                          £45. 00

 

HENRY TENNYSON FOLKARD    Works relating to Freemasonry 2nd enlarged edition of The  Wigan Masonic catalogue  1882                                                                                                                         £25. 00

 

GEORGE F FORT  A critical inquiry into the Condition of the Conventual Builders and their relations to Secular Guilds in the Middle Ages   J W Bouton  New York  1884                         £45.00       

 

ROBERT F GOULD

  The History of Freemasonry in 3 volumes . The first edition was published by     Jack of Edinburgh and London. Due to the weight the binding does NOT stand up to heavy use and it is seldom found in V Good condtion and the spines are often damaged.

                                                                                                                                                               

 

The History of Freemasonry 3 vol 2nd edition in Blue is similar to above except that the illustrations are of  Masonic Regalia of various Constitutions.   Unfortunately suffers from the same problems as the 1st edition as far as wear is concerned

 

The History of Freemasonry The 6 volume version is much better as it does stand up to much more handling. Again in Blue with elaborate Masonic symbols on spine.

 

 

The History of Freemasonry   5 volume set brought up to date by Rev Herbert Poole  contains colour plates not in the 5 volume version                                   3rd edition 1951   

 

The History of Freemasonry   the 4 volume set revised by Rev Herbert Poole and published by Caxton Press in 1952                                                                                                                                £70.00

 

The Concise History of Freemasonry  First published in 1903 this is the 1951 reprint of the 1920 revised edition                                                                                                                         sold

 

Military Lodges 1732-1899  The Apron and The Sword  or Freemasonry under Arms being and account of Lodges in Regiments and Ships of War who have belonged to the Society  Gale and Polden 1899  very difficult to find  .This is a copy presented to Royal United Service Institute by the Author and has some library identification. Otherwise VG                                                               £120.00

 

Four Old Lodges    The Founders of Modern Free-masonry  1879  This is the 1st edition of a book usually only available as a paperback reprint. The copy has  damp discolouring to the front cover but otherwise in very good condition                                                                                                £75.00

 

                Sir Henry Harben PM No 92    This is a tribute to Henry Harben of Moira Lodge who was responsible to the development in the C19th of Prudential Assurance to its dominant position in the Insurance market-.reprinted from the Christmas Number of the ‘Freemason’   1897       £20.00

 

 

GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND    Proceedings of Grand Lodge Vol IX 6th March 1895- 1st December 1897 bound in Blue cloth

 

GRAND LODGE OF SCOTLAND  The History of Free masonry Edinburgh

 Rebound    1804                                                                                                                                 £80. 00

 

T W HANSON   The Lodge of Probity No 61   1738-1938  published Halifax 1939.

Some nice pictures of old Halifax   400 + pages                                                                           £85.00

 

JEREMIAH HOW  The Freemason’s Manual or Illustrations of masonry   3rd edition 1881. Has a library stamp VG                                                                                                                                       £60.00

 

 

 

E L HAWKINS  A Concise Cyclopaedia of Freemasonry     Originally published in 1908  This is the1925 reprint. By A Lewis                                                                                                           £15. 00

 

WILLIAM J HUGHAN    Old Charges of British Freemasons   2nd ed 1895 ( considered to be the best edition)                                                                                                                            £90.00

                                Origin of the English Rite of Freemasonry   published in 1884 

This is the 3rd edition 1925                                                                                 £50. 00

 

History of the Apollo Lodge York   Published 1889                                     £45.00

 

The Jacobite Lodge at Rome 1735-7  with a complete reproduction of the Minute Book and 2 facsimiles  1910

( Cover bound on verso)  Lodge of Research Leicester                               £65.00

 

Ancient Masonic Rolls of Constitutions in possession of York Lodge No 236 with intro by W J Hughan       published Hull 1894                                                              sold

 

Reprints of Articles on the Constitution of Freemasonry  1889                 £35.00

 

W F LAMONBY  History of Craft Masonry in Cumberland and Westmorland from the year 1740 to the present day  published Coward of Carlisle in 1879. Also has a studio photo of the author signed on the reverse.                                                                                                                                   £75. 00

 

 

JOHN LANE    Handy Book to the Lists of Lodges 1889                                 sold copies required

                                Masonic Records 1717-1894   Original 2nd edition                                       £120.00

                                Masonic Records 1717-1894  Facsimile 2nd edition                                     £ 90. 00

                                Centenary Warrants and Jewels  1891  currently having spine

professionally repaired.   Interesting and rare book of interest to Jewel collectors                 ££105.00

 

DAVID MURRAY LYON   Freemasonry in Scotland   History of The Lodge of Edinburgh   (Mary’s Chapel  No.1) embracing an account of ther Rise and Progress of Freemason in Scotland  published Blackwood 1873                                                                                               £200.00

 

The ‘Tercentenary ‘ edition  published by Gresham Publishing 1900                                       £200.00

 

 

KENNETH MACKENZIE   The Royal Masonic Cyclopaedia  . Originally published 1877 – this is a 1987 re-issue facsimile in softcover by John Hamill and R A Gilbert                                        £15. 00                                                              

 

CHARLES LETCH MASON  The History of the Philantropic Lodge No 304 of Leeds 1794-1894  Leeds 1894                                                                                                                                    £50. 00

 

S L MacGREGOR MATHERS    The Kabbalah unveiled. Originally published c 1887. This is sixth impression published in 1951 by Routledge and Kegan Paul with an introduction by Mather’s Widow  The basis of theGOLDEN DAWN                                                                                       £60.00

 

CHARLES W MOORE   The New Masonic Trestle-Board   adapted to the Work and Lectures as practicised  in the Lodges, Chapters , Councils and Encampments of Knights Templars  in the United States of America    BOSTON 1868                                                                                             £75. 00

 

 

Rev GEORGE OLIVER   Masonic Institutes  Various Authors . This is one volumes of a set

of  5 entitled ‘Remains of the Early Masonic Writers’ which was edited by G Oliver.   

1847       Has bookplate of the Supreme Council                                                                    £70.00

                             Some Account of the Schism which took place in the last Century.  This was between the Antients and the Moderns. It includes the presumed origin of the Royal Arch degree in a letter to Robert T Crucefix.     1847                                                                                                        sold

                                The Star in the East    Showing the Analogy which exists between the Lectures of Freemasonry ;    Mechanism of Initiation into its  Mysteries     and the Christian Religion  

1843                                                                                                                                      £150.00

 

                                Disacrepancies of Freemasonry – examined during a week’s gossip with the late celebrated Bro. Gilkes and other eminent masons etc etc   1875 1st                                    £120.00

 

JOSEPH  G. OSBORN   History of Freemasonry in West Cornwall from 1765 – 1828 with Chapters on the Mark, RA and KT Ceremonies.  Intro by W J HUGHAN   published in 400 only edition in Penzance 1901  cover has suffered some water damage but contents are v.good             £75. 00

 

ALBERT MACKAY   Lexicon of Freemasonry   This is the 1857 edition at present being professionally repaired.  Some foxing                                                                                        £70. 00

 

CHALMERS L PATON   The Origin of Freemasonry  - The 1717 Theory exploded   Reeves and Turner 1871 .

                                                                                                                                sold  copies required

                                Freemasonry –its Symbolism, Religious Nature and Law of Perfection  Reeves and Turner  1873 Hardback.  Library sticker on inside front cover.  Detailed book covering Jewish Symbols and over 50 Masonic symbols  482 pages                                                                                       £75.00

 

R E M PEACH   A Brief Historical Sketch of Craft Masonry in the City of Bath  1894  £40. 00

 

ALBERT PIKE    Morals and Dogma of the Free and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. This work was originally produced in 1871. This copy is 1925 reprint which has been rebound. In half-leather                                                                                                                                                           £55.00

 

ALEXANDER POWELL   History of the Phoenix Lodge No 257  1786-1893; Chapter of Friendship No 257 (originally No 3) 1769 -1893 and Royal Naval Preceptory of Knights Templar No 2  1791-1893    compiled from the books in possession of the Lodge and other sources.  Privately printed in Portsmouth 1894                                                                                                                             £95.00

 

BENJAMIN W RICHARDSON   The Masonic Genius of Robert Burns.  This is a Quatuor Coronati address on 4th March 1892 reprinted from AQC with additional notes by W Fred Vernon   £50.00

 

J ROSS ROBERTSON     The History of Freemasonry in Canada from its Introduction in 1740.   Published by George N Morang & Co   Toronto in 2 Volumes 1900

This is Vol 2 only.  980 pages with many illustrations etc. In VG condition with some shelf wear to edges.

                                                                                                                        £95.00

 

 

ALEXANDER ROSS  Freemasonry in Inverness being an account of the Ancient Lodges of St John’s Old Kilwinning No 6 of Scotland and St Andrews Kilwinning No 31 of Scotland  1877      £75. 00

 

HENRY SADLER     Masonic Facts and Fictions    Very good binding1887                     £70.00

                                       Thomas Dunckerley His life, labours and letters  1891                     £150.00

                                                Do a second copy                                    (ex Masonic Library with ownership annotations)  still VG copy                                                                                          £65. 00

                                          Notes on the Ceremony of Installation  1889                                  £50.00

                                          Memorials of the Globe Lodge No 28        1904  sold  copy required

                                          Masonic Reprints and Historical Revelations   Kenning 1898 and introduction by W J Chetwode Crawley                                                                                                    £60.00

 

D CRAWFORD SMITH  History of the Ancient Masonic Lodge of Scoon and Perth  No 3  (The Lodge of Scone) published Cowan and Co Perth 1898 with intro by W J HUGHAN              

Cloth binding                                                                                                                                        £60.00

 

Another copy in Half-leather binding with extras front end pages with photograph of author and signed dedication from the author                                                                             £105. 00

 

 

Rev,WILLIAM SPARK   The Freemason’s  Liber Musicus    1883  The music for Masonic ceremonies together with lyrics                                                                                                      £100.00

 

HENRY LEONARD STILLSON (Editor in Chief)  History of the Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted mason and Concordant Orders  published in 1893 by the Fraternity Publishing Company  a major work of 900+ pages        Bound in Green cloth                                                          £160.00

 

A second copy bound in red and dated 1898  the spinehas been repaired                              £120. 00

 

HAMON LE STRANGE   History of Freemason in Norfolk  1724-1895  published  by Agas. H. Goose Norwich 1896                                                                                                                                       £95.00

 

W FRED VERNON    History of Freemasony in the  Province of Roxburgh, Peebles and Selkirkshires from 1674 to present time .  Published Kennong 1893

 with Intro by W J Hughan                                                                                                               £ 70. 00

 

A MASTER MASON – HENRY D WARD ?  The Words and Works of the Great Architect of the  Universe    Copious extracts from this book were first published in the Kopbe Chronicle Japan in 1901 but this is the first time they have appeared in full    undated                                                         £25.00

 

TAXIL,Leo  (aka  Marie Joseph Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pages  1854-1907  This the famous anti-masonic hoax exposure “Les Mysteres de la Franc-Maconnerie” published in  Paris by Letouzey & Ane published in the new edition c 1888. The text is in French with many lurid illustrations of the ‘ceremonies’. 804 pages                                                                                                                                                                               one small repair to one page. This is an uncommon item                                                                                                                                                                           £150. 00

 

THOMAS SMITH WEBB The Freemasons Monitor  of Illustrations of Masonry   rebound in half-calf the new and improved edition c 1806 with library stamp of American Antiquarian Society Worcester Mass. USA                                                                                                                             £90. 00

 

JOHN A WEISS     The Obelisk and Freemasonry   (according to the discoveries of Belzoni and Commander Corringe) published J W Bouton  New York 1880  

With good illustrations in colour                                                                                                       £120. 00               

 

FREDERIC W WILLMORE  a History of Freemasonry in the Province of Staffordshire           published by John Steen 1905   in very nice condition                                                       £105.00                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

 

HENRY J WHYMPER   The religion of Freemasonry   -   intro by W J Hughan 1888  £80.00

 

JOHN YARKER  The Arcane Schools  Published by William Tait 1909.  Very rare item, usually only found in reprint paperback.  Yarker was a rebel Freemason  whose strange rites led him to be removed from  English Freemasonry                                                                                           £120. 00

 

See also under ‘Periodicals’ for the complete ‘KNEPH’

 

 

 

BOOKS  1912-1950

 

FREDERICK ARMITAGE  The Masonic Lodges of the World   Published by Weare and Co London 1913  This is the rare book of short histories of Lodges round the World restored professionally VG                                                                                                                                                                                             £85.00

 

WILLIAM A BACON      East Lancashire Masonic Worthies  published by Sherratt and Hughes 1913                                                                                                                                                               £35.00

 

EUSTACE  B BEESLEY   Freemasonry in Lancashire from the earliest times down to the partition of the Province of Lancashire into two divisions in AD 1825-6  published  by the Manchester Assn of Masonic Research 1932   Limited edition 46 of 500 and signed by the author                   

.ex Wigan Public Library spine is torn                                                                                             £25.00

 

COL. ROBERT J BLACKHAM    Apron Men  - The Romance of Freemasonry  

Rider and Co   1933                                                                                                            £35. 00

 

 

Rev E CAHILL  Freemasonry and the Anti-Christian Movement   3rd imp1949                              £15.00

 

ALBERT  L CALVERT    Peter Gilkes  (1765-1833)    written the well-known secretary of the Authors Research Lodge and Masonic Collector this book was published in 1916 by Kenning and Son ( has ex Masonic Library notation) VG good rare book                                                                            £40.00

                                The Grand Festival and the Stewards 1717-1919     a presentation souvenir of the Grand Festival 30th April 1919 the spine has been professionally repaired.                           £90.00

 

Rev F de P CASTELLS       Origin of the Masonic Degrees published by A Lewis  ( ex-Masonic library with couple of notations) still good+ copy                                                                           sold

                                           The Apocalypse of Freemasonry published by A Lewis  ( ex-Masonic library with a couple of notations) still good+ copy                                                                           sold

                                                       English Freemasonry in its period of Transition  1600-1700 published Rider & Co 1931 (ex Masonic Library) VG                                                                                          sold

 

                                                Copies of all de P Castells works required

 

ALBERT CHURCHWARD       The Arcana of Freemasonry  1922 reprint some wear                £65. 00

 

                                                         Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man   The evolution of religious doctrines from the eschatology of the Ancient Egyptians  This is the 1913 2nd edition.

This book has been rebound to the highest standard in half-leather with excellent tooling to the spine.                                                                                                                                                           £165.00

 

GILBERT DAYNES   The Birth and Growth of the Grand Lodge of England 1717-1926

published by Masonic Record.    Now hard to find                                                                       £45.00

 

ALFRED DODD      Shakespeare as Creator of Freemasonry     Very good copy published by Rider and Co c 1925                                                                                                                                              £120. 00

 

GEORGE S DRAFFEN   Pour La Foy     a short history of the Great Priory of Scotland 

1949                                                                                                                                                      £150.00

 

“ESSEX MASTER”  aka G E Roebuck   The Teachings of Freemasonry      sold

 

F W GOLBY                    A Century of Masonic Working being a History of the Stability Lodge of Instruction – Herald Press Bath 1921                                                                                                £30. 00

 

                                                History of Neptune Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons No 22 

 1757-1909         privately printed 1910                                                                                          £35.00

 

GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND   Contributions from Lodges

Jan 1st to Dec 31st 1918      £20.00

 

 

                           

MANLY P HALL   The Lost Keys of Freemasonry or The Secret of Hiram Abiff   

Rider 1931                                                                                                                            £30. 00

 

“HAZLITT”   “Unwritten Laws of Freemasonry”   1922 First edition          Published by the Masonic Record                           £15,00

 

A S HALL-JOHNSON    Wisdom, Strength and Beauty    Buenos Aires 1949  Notes on the  Ritual and Ceremony of the Degree of Royal Ark Mariners for the Buenos Aires Lodge of R A M No 481  by its Worshipful Commander Noah in 1949                                                                        Sold

WILLIAM HAMMOND    Masonic Emblems & Jewels  (Treasures of Freemasons Hall London) published  by George Philip 1917  excellent reference book for collectors. (ex Masonic notation)

VG copy                                                                                                                                                              

 

HERBERT F INMAN   Emulation working explained  Published in  1929. This is a 12th edition copy in VG+                                                                                                        sold   copies required

 

                                             Masonic Problems and Queries   originally 1933 this is 1964

reprint by A Lewis  VG                                                                                                           £20. 00

                                                                                               

 

DOUGLAS KNOOP.   Pure Antient Masonry   Private circulation 1939                           £30. 00

 

KNOOP and JONES      An Introduction to Freemasonry  Manchester University 1937 £35.00

 

                                                The Genesis of Freemasonry    Manchester Univ Press 1947 (ex Masonic Library with some annotation)                                                                                                      £35.00

                                                The Early Masonic     sold copies required

 

The Scottish Mason and The Mason Word  Manchester University Press 1939.  The Scottish Mason commenced as a study in AQC as a short paper and  is here expanded. Together with the Mason Word which was the Prestonian Lecture for 1938 by Douglas Knoop                                                                                           £65.00

 

The Bolsover Castle Building Account 1613 issued in advance of Ars Quatuor Coronatorum Vol XLIX Part I 1936                                                       £30.00

 

The early Masonic catechisms    Quatuor Coronati 1971 reissue                                                                                                                              sold - copies required

 

Early Masonic Pamphlets  Quatuor Coronati reissue 1978       

 sold - copies required

 

The Mediaeval Mason    First edition published by Manchester University Press in 1933.                                                                                                  

A second copy    .1967   3rd edition reset and revised in 1967 in VG dustjacket    

                                                                                               

STANLEY H N LANE  Jordan Lodge No 1402 Torquay  1872-1922                             £20. 00

 

 

 

C W LEADBEATER    Glimpses of Masonic History  published by the Theosophical Publishing House in Adyar Madra India in 1926. (Associated with Annie Besant) This is usually available only

As a paperback reprint.    First edition                                                                                             £65.00

 

A second copy with a signed photo of Annie Besant pasted to f.e.p and dated October 1st 1927

                                                                                                                                                                £75.00

 

EUGENE LENNHOFF   The Freemasons    originally in German and 1st published in English in 1934. This the UK 1st by Methuen                                                                                                 £80. 00

 

                                                   The Freemasons       This is the  1978 edition by Lewis in Dustjacket   

                                                                                                                                                                £30.00

 

JOHN H LEPPER & PHILIP CROSSLE     History of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Ireland  Vol 1   Dublin Lodge of Reseach 1925. There is some doubt about a second volume. This copy has sustained water damage to the cover  but the contents are in good order.                                                                                                                                                                                £200.00

 

ROBERT STRATHERN LINDSAY   a History of the Mason Lodge Holyrood House (St Luke’s) No 44 holding of the Grand Lodge of Scotland with Roll of Members   2 large format  volumes   Limited edition of 500 copies of which this is 35   1935                                                                £100. 00

 

A S MACBRIDE          Speculative Masonry   1931                                                               £30.00

 

                A second copy published by Southern Published of Tennessee. This is heavily annotated on inside front cover with signatures of members of Lodge Anchorage which is a lodge of Women

                                                                                                                                                                £30.00

 

ALBERT MACKEY  Jurisprudence of Freemasonry  The written and unwritten Laws of Freemasonry  Revised by Robert Ingham Clegg 1927 and Louis R Blakemore 1953                sold

                                A Lexicon of Freemasonry   12th edition  1883

published Charles Griffin and Co                     £35. 00

 

see also before for 1857 edition

G B MINSHULL    Hegeston Papers   Papers presented to the Hegeston Lodge  No 5220 published 1937 (ex Masonic Library )                                                                                                        £20.00

 

 

JOSEPH FORT NEWTON   The Builders  1st published 1918  this is the 9th impression in its dustjacket (Allen and Unwin) 1962                                                                                                 £25.00

               

                                1916 edition without wrapper  (Allen and Unwin)                                        £20. 00

 

                                1916 USA edition (The Torch Press)                                                                £30. 00

 

ARNOLD WHITAKER OXFORD   The origin and progress of the Supreme Council 33° of the Ancient and Accepted (Scottish) Rite for England, Wales,The Dominions and Dependencies of the British Crown     Published Oxford UP  1933 1st                                                                               sold

 

ERNEST G PALMER   The Secret of Ancient Egypt      

 Rider 1924 1st edition  some links with Freemasonry                                                         £30.00

 

Rev HERBERT POOLE    The Old Charges   1924                                                                £20. 00

 

                                                Six Masonic Songs of the Eighteenth Century 

Quatuor Coronati 1930                                      soft board covers                                                 £40.00

 

Sir ALFRED ROBBINS   English-speaking Freemasonry    Ernest Benn 1930  -

library stamp                                                                                                        £20. 00

 

ALGERNON ROSE  The Director of Ceremonies   His duties and responsibilities

together with a few Emergency addresses and Articles entitled

‘The Ceremony of Consecration’ and

‘From Labour to Refreshment’                  Kenning 1920 1st edition                                          £20. 00

               

Kenning  new and revised edition 1932          £20. 00

               

T M STEWART   The Gods of the Ancient Egyptians   This book was originally published in 1927. This is a reprint edition  by A Lewis in 1978                                                                                  £12.00

 

JOHN STOKES               Royal Arch Masonry  published by the Masonic record in 1924           £12.       

 

J T THORP   French Prisoners Lodges  this the second augmented edition of this rare and interesting book published by The Lodge of Research No 2429 Leicester  1935                                  £ 70.00

 

LIONEL VIBERT    The Story of the Craft    1921                                                                                £25. 00

 

                                          A Survey of Masonic Research.  This is an address delivered to the Durham Installed masters Lodge No 4441 on 26 Oct 1932                                                                               £20.00

 

A E WAITE   The secret tradition in Freemasonry. This is 1937 1st edition of this rare book.

Usually only available as a reprint                                                                                                £200.00

 

                            New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry  2 vols                                                      £80. 00

 

                                The Pictorial Key to the Tarot  being Fragmentss of a Secret Tradition under the Veil of Divination   Masonic Library stamp  1911 FIRST edition                                                               £75.00

 

                               

 

J S M WARD   The Hung Society in 3 vols in Sleeve            as new                                    £120.00

                                Who was Hiram Abiff 1925 1st edition by Baskerville Press   copies required

No 1 The E.A.Handbook  originally 1923 

this is the 4th edition from  1964                                                                       £10. 00

                                No 2 The F.C.’s Handbook originally 1923

                                This the 6th  edition 1969                                                                                    £10. 00

 

No 2 The F.C.’s Handbook originally 1923

                                This the 1st   edition                                                                                              £18. 00

 

                                No 3 The M.M.’s Book   1st edition                                                                  £18.00

 

                                 An explanation of the Royal Arch Degree  1925                                         £  30.00

 

                                 Told through the Ages   - a series of Masonic stories 1926                         £  18.00

 

                                  Labour and Refreshment     - Speeches, Lectures and Stories

for many occasions  1926                                                    copies required

 

C J WHITTING   History of the Lodge of Hengist No 195 Bournemouth

                                Published George Kenning   1897                                                                    £50.00

 

 

 

W. L. WILMHURST   The Masonic Initiation   1924 1st editon in dust-jacket.             £75. 00

                                                 

                                The Lodge of Living Stones  The Ceremony of Initiation                           £20. 00

The Lodge of Living Stones  The Ceremony of Passing                              £20. 00

 

 

                                The Meaning of Masonry  3rd ed July 1923                                                  £30. 00

 

                               

DUDLEY WRIGHT

Editor of Gould’s History of Freemasonry   see under R F Gould

 

                                The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites published by Theosophical Publishing House

Parts of the text have been neatly underscored in coloured inks   c 1920                                                £40.00

 

Robert Burns and his Circle  This is a hard-to-find book and usually available as a paperback reprint. This however is the original 1924 1st edition in VG condition                                                                                                                                                                         £70. 00

 

Woman and Freemasonry  1st edition by Rider 1922                                  £40.00

 

Women and Freemasonry  This is a Kissinger paperback reprint              £20.00

 

Roman Catholicism and Freemasonry  1st edition                                        £40.00

 

 

BOOKS   post  1950

 

CHIEF RANAMI ABAH    Light after Darkness   Published 1992 1st edition by Lewis Masonic in VG  dustjacket                                                                                                                                           £15.00

 

FOSTER BAILEY   The Spirit of Masonry   Published in UK in 1957  this is a softcover edition by Lucis Publishing in New York 1979.  Previous ownership is partially obliterated by ‘Tippex’

                                                                                                                        £10. 00

 

BAIGENT,LEIGH & LINCOLN  The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail   1982 reprint. This book started a whole new genre of Masonic Books. It was later revised and extended.                      £15. 00

 

BAIGENT and LEIGH  The Temple and the Lodge  1989 1st edition                             £20.00

 

ALAIN BAUER          Aux Origines de la Franc-Maconnerie  (Isaaac Newton et les Newtoniens)

Published in France by Dervy in 2003 Text in French                                                                  £15.00

                                                                                                                                 

ALLAN BEAVER  Middlesex Matter  a history of 125 years of Middlesex Freemasonry

1870-1995                                                                                                                                            £15. 00

 

DANIEL BERESNIAK   Symbols of Freemasonry  Originally published in French this is the English edition published in 2000 by Assouline Publishing in New York. A fairly common book but this was a presentation copy to a visitor to KIRKLAND Lodge No 150  in Washington USA.on 9 th Dec .05 for  the 100th Open Installation of Officers and is signed by the Master and his Officers on f.e.p.                                                                                                                        £20.00

 

K W BOND   The New History of Freemasonry in the Province of Cumberland and Westmorland   

Keswick 1994                                                                                       £25.00

 

HUBERT S.BOX  The Lure of Freemasonry  Signed 1st edition in a poor wrapper   £20. 00

 

D J P BROWN   Three Leopards and a Wakes Knot.   The story of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Mark masons of Staffordshire and Shropshire published 1981 with a signed dedication in in on fep from Noel Boardman PGM                    £20.00

 

PAUL H BUTTERFIELD   Centenary The first 100 years of English Freemasonry in the Transvaal 1878-1978                                                                                             £20. 00

 

 

HARRY CARR    The collected Prestonian Lectures  1925-1960 published by Quatuor Coronati Lodge

1967 revised edition                                                                                           Sold    copies required

`                               The collected Prestonian Lectures 1988-1996  published by Quatuor Coronati 1997 in mint condition                                                                                                           Sold     copies required

                                The Mason and the Burgh   An examination of the Edinburgh Register of Apprentices and the Burgess Rolls    1954 Quatuor Coronati Lodge                                    £20. 00

                                The Freemason at Work   3rd imp 1977  This is a sought-after book being a collection of  over 400 pages of reprints of short and pithy articles on all parts of freemasonry.  Good reference book and useful source material for short talks .                                                                               £30. 00

                                The Early French Exposures   published by Quatuor Coronati  1971

Now scarce very informative book 488pages                                                                         £70. 00

                                Lodge Mother Kilwinning No.0     a study of the earliest minute books 1642-1842. published by Quatuor Coronati  1961   £70. 00                                                                  £125.00

 

E H CARTWRIGHT     A Commentary on The Freemasonic Ritual   1947                       £12.00

 

ALPHONSE CERZA   The Courts and Freemasonry   Case Histories that have or could affect Freemasonry   1986  Researchj Lodge No 2 AF&AM of Iowa                                                       £20. 00

 

JACQUES CHAILLEY   The Magic Flute  Masonic Opera  an interpretation of the libretto and the music. Translated from the French by Herbert Weinstock.

Published  by Victor Gollancz 1972                                                                                                 sold

 

RON CHUDLEY    Thomas Dunckerley  - a remarkable Freemason    This is a the biography of the  person large responsible for the  revival of Knights Templar in England from 1791 . He was also Grand Superintendent of the Royal Arch in 18 Provinces    1982   1st edition                                   Sold

 

                                History of Craft Masonry in Devonshire    1984                                           £15.00

 

HENRY WILSON COIL   Freemasonry through Six centuries   in 2 volumes in original vg dust-jacket and the pair  in sleeve published by Macoy Publishing in 1967                                         sold

 

                                                                Coil’s Masonic Encyclopedia   1 vol published 1961   £70.00

 

Rev N BARKER CRYER   The Arch and the Rainbow  Published Ian Allan 1996 This a comprehensive account of the development of the Mark and Royal Ark mariners degrees    £20.00

 

                                    History of Mark masonry in Surrey  1856-1980                      £12.00

 

                                                Masonic Halls in England    South

Masonic Halls in England    North

              Masonic Halls in England    Midlands

                                           Masonic Halls in South Wales

                                           Masonic Halls in North Wales                                               copies required

 

 

L N A DAVIES       The Centennial History of the Barry Lodge No 2357

                1890-1990  South Wales Province Eastern District                                                                £20. 00

 

JAMES DEWAR   The Unlocked Secret    Freemasonry examined   Jany 1967 2nd ed. This was the book based on the BBC exposure by the Author.                                                                                                £20.00S

 

GEORGE DILLON     Grand Orient Freemasonry Unmasked as the secret power behind Communism.

A reissue of an anti-Masonic book from 1885 entitled The War of Antichrist with the Church based on a ‘”Lost Lectures” by George Dillon.   Amusing                                                                 £20.00

 

COLIN DYER William Preston and His Work   1st edition from 1987                               £20. 00

 

                                Grand Stewards Lodge  1735-1985   a record in the 250th year of Grand Stewards Lodge of the progress of the Lodge etc 1985. This copy is signed by the author                          £30.00

 

                                History of the first 100 years of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge                   £20.00

 

                                Symbolism in Craft Masonry  1976 1st in Jacket                                          £20.00

 

                                Emulation – a ritual to remember  1973 in jacket                                        £30.00

 

GEORGE FARRAH   The Temples at Jerusalem and their Masonic connections   2003 Paperback 278 pages large format – well-illustrated                                                                                              £30.00

 

LEWIS EDWARDS     The Law and Custom of Freemasonry published by A Lewis 1948                        £18.00

 

WILLIAM PRESTON CAMPBELL EVERDEN    Freemasonry and its etiquette   This is revised and enlarged edition (1971) of  ‘The Etiquette of Freemasonry’ by an Old Past master

Published by A Lewis  in Dust-jacket                                                                                              £10. 00

 

R A GILBERT   A E Waite – bibliography  1983 1st                                                                  £16.00

 

MOLLIE GILLEN  Royal Duke  Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex 1775-1843.

                A biography of the Duke of Sussex with some references and photos relating

to Freemasonry                                                                                                                    £15.00

 

COLIN R GOSS   The Story of Jersey Freemasonry   1993                                                 £20. 00

 

GRAND LODGE 1717-1967  Various articles to commemorate 250 years of English Craft Masonry   Printed for UGL at Oxford University Press                                                    £25. 00

 

JOHN A GRANTHAM   History of the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons of England and Wales and the Dominions and Dependancies of the British Crown     A Lewis   1958  £18.00

 

                                                An Introduction to Mark masonry      copies required

 

CHRISTOPHER HAFFNER   Regularity of Origin  - astudy of Masonic Precedents . Foreword by Harry Carr             published by The Paul Chater Lodge of Installed Masters No 5391 EC

Hong Kong 1986                                                                                                                                 £25.00  

 

JOHN HAMILL   The Craft   a history of English Freemasonry  1986 Paperback                        £15.00

 

JESSICA L HARLAND-JACOBS    Builders of Empire   Freemasonry and British Imperialism 1717-1927 The University of  North Carolina Press  Chapel Hill  1st edition 2007 USA         £20. 00                                                                                                                                                 

 

WALTON HANNAH    Darkness Visible    This ‘exposure’ published in 1952 was to have far reaching effects on English Freemasonry with TV programmes based on it and eventually was the prime cause for the Penalties in the Obligations to be changed.  As is often the case there is an anti-Masonic inscription on the fep but in view of the importance of the book I think this just emphasises the impact. This is a copy of the RARE 1stedition with its dust-jacket  (has anti-masonic comment on fep)                                                                                                                                                               £30.00

 

-do-                         9th edition 1957 VG dustjacket                         £20.00

 

                                                                                                                               

TREVOR I HARRIS     The Medals and Jewels of British Freemasonry   This is a recent book (2007), covering the Medal and Jewels in 138 pages in colour.

An excellent book on the subject.                                                                                                  £ 40. 00

 

H L HAYWOOD   Famous Masons and Masonic Presidents  

1968 edition by Macoy USA                            £30.00  

 

E W HEATON     Solomon’s New Men  The emergence of Ancient Israel as a national state. This is not truly ‘Masonic’ but it is important background information to help understand what the organisation was in Israel at the time of Solomon.  Published  by Thames and Hudson in 1974 in 1st edition in Dustjacket                                                                                                                   £15.00

 

RONALD E HEATON   The Lodge at Fredericksburgh  a digest of Early Records abstracted from the Record Book of the Minuites 1752-1771  ….with an account of the Members of the Lodge in the American Revolutio  etc etc     Published in Pennsylvania  Second printing May 1976        £18. 00

 

KENT HENDERSON   World Masonic Guide                                                                       £20. 00

 

HISTORY OF THE PROVINCE OF DUNBARTONSHIRE (Scotland)   1739-1989                                                                                                                                                                   £15.00

 

ALEX HORNE   The York Legend in the Old Charges   published A Lewis

1978 1st in dustjacket                                                         £12.00

 

King Solomon’s Temple in the Masonic Tradition

4th imp 1977                                                                         £15.00

 

ELLIC HOWE   Magicians of the Golden Dawn  

History for 1887-1923 1972 1st in Dustjacket                                               £25.00

 

A C F JACKSON  Rose Croix   A History of the Ancient and Accepted Rite for England and Wales  - a must read book for all members of the ‘Rose Croix’  This is 1980 1st edition                  £25. 00

 

BERNARD  E JONES   Freemasons Guide and Companion.  One of the best standard books for general Masonic reference.

a)       This book originally published in 1950. This the  17th impression of the 2nd edition 1994                                                                                                     £20. 00

 

                                b)     This is New and revised 1956 edition 1963 printing                             £20.00

 

                                c)     This the rare Advance Proof Copy of the 1950 1st edition – unrevised and confidential in a soft brown board cover                                                                                                £35. 00

 

                                                Freemasons’ Book of the Royal Arch    Originally published in 1957  this is the 1965  revised reprint                                                                                                                              £20. 00

 

 

ROBERT LOMAS    The Invisible College Paperback BCA                                            £   8.00

 

                                         The Invisible College   The Royal Society, Freemasonry and the birth of modern science                         2002 1st edition by Headline in dustjacket (Unclipped)              £20. 00

 

 

 

JOHN MANDLEBERG   Ancient and Accepted  a chronicle of the proceedings 1845-1945 of the Supreme Council established in England in 1845  published with the authority of Supreme Council

1995 by Quatuor Coronati Correspondance Circle - over 1150 pages and very heavy  

sold copies required

 

 

G R S MEAD      Pistis Sophia      a Gnostic miscellany published Watkings 1947            £75. 00

 

ALEC MELLOR  

                           Strange Masonic Stories   Published Macoy Publishing  Paperback 1985  £15.00

 

HARRY MENDOZA   Serendipity     described as ‘Musings on the precedence of Numbers and Names used by Lodges and Chapters of UGLE and the Supreme Grand Chapter of England together with a description of some of the Badges, Banner and Mottoes they use.  1995 1st              £18.00

 

                                The Ensigns of the Twelve Tribes of Israel  --The Royal Arch Banners published by A Lewis this is an 1989 1st edition                                                                                                sold

 

CHRISTOPHER LEO MURPHY    Postage Stamps and Freemasonry    Guide and Compendium United States and Canada   Carlton Press   New York 1988                                                        sold

 

PAUL NAUDON   Histoire generale de la Franc-Maconnerie  published in France 1981.

This is the 1987 2nd edition Text in French Beautifully illustrated                                             £35. 00

 

DENNIS PERRIN   The Sacking of the Masonic Temple in Jersey by the Nazis in 1941 publ A Lewis 1993   softback                                                                                                                       £10. 00

 

A L PHILIPS   Freemasonry for Beginners and Others   2nd edition 1976                          £15. 00

 

E E OGILVIE    Freemasons’ Royal Arch Guide  Lewis 1978 1st                                         sold

 

ROSCOE POUND   Masonic addresses and writings   Macoy 1953                                  £20. 00

 

PICK and KNIGHT    The Pocket History of Freemasonry 1st edition 1953 in dustjacket ££35. 00

 

PICK and KNIGHT    The Pocket History of Freemasonry revised edition 1956                £20. 00

 

PIERS PAUL READ    The Templars   1999 1st in Dustjacket                                              £20.00

 

H H C PRESTIGE   A Century of the Allied Masonic Degrees    1979 softcover This edition was made to commemorate the Century                                                                                                                 £10.00

                               

Sir WILLIAM RAYNOR PGM     Record of the Installation 1919  Illustrated souvenir   £35.00

 

F P REYNOLDS   History of the London Bon Accord Mark master Lodge  Bon Accord was the founding lodge of Mark Masonry in England  . This book is compiled from the Lodge Minutes. Published 1951                                                                                                                                           £18. 00

 

H C ROBBINS LANDON   Mozart and The Masons  - New light on the Lodge ‘Crowned Hope’ published Thames and Hudson USA 1983  1st in jacket                                                                £22.50

 

ALLEN  E ROBERTS    House Undivided  The story of Freemasonry and the Civil War   Published Macoy Publishing Virginia USA  1990                                                                                       £20.00

 

JOHN J ROBINSON    Born in the Blood   The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry

 Guild edition 1990                                                              £15.00

 

C D ROTCH    The Lodge of Reconciliation 1813-1816 and its influence on Present-day Ritual

Originally serialised in Freemasons Chronicle May-August 1957  This is the revised Oct 1957  booklet (28 pages)   signed by the author                                                                                                                £20.00

 

R E S SANDBACH    Priest and Freemason             Biography of Rev Oliver published by Lewis in 1988. This is the 1993 revised edition in dustjacket  

( see above for books by George Oliver)                                                                                         £10.00

 

F W SEAL-COON    An historical account of Jamaican Freemasonry     128 pages in typescript and bound in soft cover (In the AQC Vol 89 There is a paper by Seal-Coon entitled ‘ the Jamaican Freemason’)                                                                                                           £25.00

 

FREDERICK SMYTH    Brethren in Chivalry  1791-1991   An account of the history of Masonic Knights Templar in England. A very good book and was given by Great Priory as a presentation item to those attending the bi-centenary meeting.  

 

Sir JAMES STUBBS and T O Haunch    Freemasons’ Hall The Home and Heritage of the Craft published 1983 bu UGLE.  Softcover with only 68 pages but extremely interesting              £15.00

 

HAROLD TEMPERTON  A History of Craft Freemasonry in Shropshire 1732-1982  £20. 00

 

VINDEX    Light Invisible  The Freemasons answer to Darkness Invisible 1952 1st in dust-jacket   

                           published by The Regency Press                                                                            £20.00

 

D WEINBEIN   The Oddfellows 1810-2010  A History of ……… published 2010      £20.00

 

JOHN WEIR   Robert Burns the Freemason  published by A Lewis 1996                        £15.00

 

ROY WELLS   Some Royal Arch Terms explained  published by A Lewis this is 1978 1st edition in dustjacket                                                                                                                                             £15.00

                                Royal Arch matters  1984  with dedication from author which has been partially obliterated by ‘tippex’                                                                                                                       £10. 00 

 

                                The Rise and Development of Organised Freemasonry  published by A Lewis                                      issued as  Vol 17 of The Masonic Book Club USA                                          £20.00

 

 

 

                                Freemasonry in London from 1785   seen through the Antients’ Domatic Lodge No. 177 and its associates   signed by the author in dustjacket with ‘;sunned’ spine VG            £35.00

                                                                               

 

LODGE HIST0RIES     numerical order

 

 

 

Chapter No 1        History of The Edinburgh Royal Arch Chapter No 1 (1911)                      £45. 00

 

KT Precep No 2    Royal Naval Preceptory   see above under  Alexander Powell

 

Lodge No 3            Ancient Masonic Lodge of Scoon and Perth (The Lodge of Scone)   see above under D Crawford Smith

 

Lodge No 1            Edinburgh   Minutes of the Mary’s Chapel Lodge                       £45. 00

                (see also above David Lyon  Freemasonry in Scotland 1873)

 

Lodge No 2          Lodge Canongate Kilwinning  1888  signed by author                                 £60. 00

 

Lodge No 2  AF&AM  Niagara Lodge   Niagara-on-the-Lake Canada 1792-1992                               £15. 00

 

Lodge No 4         The Royal Somerset House and Inverness Lodge  By Rev Arnold Oxford and published in 1928 by Bernard Quaritch                                                                                                £70. 00

 

Lodge No 6          History of the Lodge of Friendship  1947        C D Rotch                             £45. 00

 

Preceptory No 6   St George  History 1795-1895    by C Fitzgerald Matier                              £95. 00

Preceptory No 6   St George  a celebration of 200 years compiled by Peter Glyn Williams  £25.00

                               

 

Lodge 15             History of Kent Lodge  1752-1952                                                                   £20. 00

 

Lodge 18             History of the Lodge of Industry  1725-1911                                                 £20.00

 

Lodge 18 SC       Ancient Freemasonry and the Old Dundee Lodge No 18  1722-1920 by

                                Arthur Heiron                                                                                                       £60.00

 

Lodge No 22        Neptune Lodge   see above under F W Golby

 

Council 22 R&SM  De Witt Council  Albany New York 1911-1936                                         £15.00

 

 

Lodge 26           Faith and Fidelity Preceptory No 26 formerley The Early Grand Encampment

                                Of England                                                                                                           £25. 00

 

 

Lodge  28         Globe Lodge   see above under SADLER

 

Lodge 44           Holyrood House (DSt Lukes)   see above under  Robt |Lindsay

 

Lodge  61          The Lodge of Probity see above under T W Hanson

 

 

Lodge 99               Shakespear Lodge Part I to 1904                                                                   £65. 00

Lodge 99              Shakespear Lodge   supplement 1905-1939                                                 £40. 00

 

Chapter 140      St George’s Chapter (HRA)  1786-1936                                                            £20. 00

 

Lodge 160 SC  Lodge Roman Eagle 1785-1931                                                                          £15.00

 

Lodge 169       The Lodge of Temperance  see above under’  BEZZANT’

 

Lodge 177        Domatic Lodge   see above  under Roy Wells Freemasonry in London from 1785

 

Lodge 195        Lodge of Hengist (Bournemouth) see above under   C J Whitting

 

Lodge 217        Stability Lodge  see above under ‘GOLBY’

 

Lodge 238        History of the Lodge Caledonian No 238 Annan                                              £20.00

 

Lodge 255        History of the Lodge of Harmony and Chapter of Iris                                    £35.00

 

Lodge  257        Phoenix Lodge   see above under Alexander Powell

 

Chapter  257      Chapter of Friendship (originally No 3 )  see above under Alexander Powell

 

Lodge 259          Prince of Wales’s Lodge  1890 a list of members since its constitution. Good plates of past Members including Edward VII as Grand Master when Prince of Wales                          £25.00

 

Lodge 304          The history of the Philanthropic Lodge   see above under Charles L Masom

 

Lodge 306          An abridged History of Alfred Lodge No 306 1795-1945 signed by WM with programme for 150th anniversary meeting                                                                                                £20.00

 

Lodge  370 SC   History of Lodge Renfrew County Kilwinning by J Watt Tait.              £80. 00

 

Lodge 452          Frederick Lodge of Unity  1838-1938                Surrey                                    £15. 00

 

Lodge 731          50 years of the Arboretum Lodge 1858-1908                                                  £45.00

 

Lodge  1076       The Capper Lodge  1865-1965                                                                           £10.00

 

Lodge  1141        The March and Darnley Lodge  1867-1967                                                    £10.00

 

Lodge 1198 EC   Pitt Macdonald Lodge  1867-1967                                                                  £15. 00

 

Lodge  1241         The Trades House of Glasgow Lodge  1920-1945                                        £30. 00

 

Chapter 1395       Weyside Chapter 1878-1978 Surrey                                                                             £10. 00

 

Lodge 1402          Jordan Lodge of Torquay 1872-1922 see above under  Stanley Lane    £20. 00

 

Lodge  2073         Quatuor Coronati Lodge  see above under Colin Dyer                                                £20.00

 

Lodge  2357         The Barry Lodge   see above under L. N. A. Davies                                     £20.00

 

Chapter 3255      Consecration 1910 of Fairfax Chapter in Yorkshire                                     £15.00

 

Lodge  5068         The Gwynedd Lodge  19929-1949                                                                  £15.00

 

Lodge 5191        The Aldworth Lodge 1930-1980                                                                        £15. 00

 

Lodge 6348          Walton-on-Thames Lodge  1946-1996                                                          £15.00

 

Lodge 6816        History of Square Conduct Lodge 1949-1970                                                                £10.00

 

Lodge 7504        History of Mount Meru Lodge  1930-1979  Tanzania                                  £10.00

 

DELAWARE  History of A & AR in Delaware 1910-1973                                                         £15. 00

 

ROXBURGH, Peebles and Selkirkshires.   A History of Freemasonry by Fred Vernon 1893  with intro by W J Hughan   published by Geo Kenning  usually only in Paperback reprint. This is a very good original copy                                                                                                                                       £105. 00

 

 

RESEARCH TRANSACTIONS

 

Prestonian Lectures  Paper issues at £8 each

 

1938    The Mason Word

1952    ‘Free’ in ‘Freemason’

1959     Some Notes on Medieval Freemasonry

1960     The Growth of Freemasonry in England and Wales since 1717

1968     The Five Noble Orders of Architecture

1969    Some Notes on medieval Freemasonry

1971    Masters and Master masons

1972    ‘It is not in the power of ant man…..A study in Change

1974    Drama and Craft

1976    Preston’s England

1977    The Tyler or Outer Guard

1979    250 years of Masonry in India

1980    Robert Freke Gould

1981    The Grand Lodge according to the Old Constitutions

1982    The Government of the Craft

1986     The Old Charges

 

BRITISH MASONIC MISCELLANY    20 VOLUME SET                          £90. 00

 

                                Individual copies (subject to availability)                                                £  7.00

 

 

QUATUOR CORONATI LODGE

Index to Vol 1-80                compiled by A R Hewitt                                                                     £15.00

 

Masonic Reprints  XIII    Minutes of the Lodge of Edinburgh No 1 (Mary’s Chapel)           £80.00

 

1920 Volume 33 Part 3  Paper                                          £15.00

1934  Volume 44 part2 & 3              Paper                      £20. 00

1958 Volume 70 complete                                Paper                      £20.00

1960 Volume 72 complete                                Paper                      £20.00

 

Reprints in Paper wraps:-

Bro Mozart and some of his Masonic Friends  Herbert Bradley  AQC Vol 26 1913             £20.00

An early will of Philip, Duke of Wharton   J T Thorp    AQC Vol 31 1918                               £15.00

Inaugural address  Herbert Bradley  AQC Vol 34 1921                                                              £10.00

Wessel Linden and the Holywell ms  A E Evans  AQC Vol,43 1945                                         £15.00

 

Q C Pamphlet No 1   Builders’ Rites and Ceremonies.

The Folk Lore of Masonry by G W Speth  1931  (1951 reprint)                                                £20. 00

 

Q C Pamphlet No 2   Two Versions of the Charges  with an introductory note on the

SPENCER FAMILY  by Rev H Poole   1933                                                                 £20.00

 

The History of the first 100 years of Quatuor Coronati Lodge No 2076

 by Colin Dyer 1986                                                                                            £15.00

 

 

We can quote most years in Blue bound hardback                                      various prices

 

Paper back issues from Volume 80  when available                                                                    £ 8. 00

 

 

AMERICAN LODGE OF RESEARCH FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS

Transactions                         Volume IV  No 2   Oct 1944-Dec 1945                                           £20.00

Volume IV  No 3  April 1946- October 1947                                 £20.00                   Volume V   No3   April 1951- January 1952                                       £12.00

 

Authors Lodge   Volumes 1,2,3,4,5 sold as a set covering period of 21 years to 1930 to  Very large number of pages per volume                                                                                                                                                                                                                £250.00

Volume 5 as a single volume                                                                                                            £ 35. 00

 

Grand Lodge of Scotland  Yearbook                                                                                     

1952; 1958

1960 -1965;    1967

1972; 1975; 1977-1980

1982-83;1985; 1989

1990-1996  ;1998-99                                                         £10.00 each

 

Leicester Lodge of Research Transactions

Index 1892-1944

 

Very long run covering volumes   3 books volumes 3-8

Paper  issues 

1900-01

1906-08

1909-10 to 1932-33

1933-34  to  1938-39

1941-42  to 1974-5

1974;1980; 1981 ; 1982; 1984; 1985;1986

1987-1998

2000 to  2008 ;

2009-10                                                 Prices on application

 

 

Masonic Reprints  John T Thorp

No  II                                     Bruin in the Suds  1751

No IV                                     Les Fri-Macons  Hyperdrame 1740  Translation by R E Wallace-James

No VI                                     The Secrets of the Free-masons revealed by a Disgusted Brother  1759

No  VII                                  The Complete Freemason or Multa Paucis for Lovers of Secrets   1763-64

No VIII                                  A Master-Key to Free-masonry   1760

No  X                                      The Free-mason Examin’d    1754

No  XI                                    Solomon in all this Glory     1768

 

 

Manchester Association for Masonic Research

Volumes

 2

8 to 16

23;  25;  31

37-39

41-59

60-69

70, 74, 75

Also some recent issues      83 84 86—93  and 95  97  2009                                       Prices on application

 

Miscellanea Latomorum (or Masonic Notes and Queries)

No 1 (Aug 1913); 4,5.6,7,8,9

Vol  II     Nos 1- 9

Vol  III    Nos 1- 9

Vol  IV    Nos  1 -9

Vol  V     No    1

Vol  VII   Nos   1  2  4  5  6  7  9

Vol  VIII  Nos   1– 9

Vol  IX    Nos        9

Vol  X     Nos 1 – 9

Vol  XI    Nos 1-6 and 9

Vol  XII  Nos 1-5

Vol  XX  No  1

Vol  XXX Nos 1-5 and 9

 

Somerset Masters’ Lodge

Transactions for   1980 to 1992

Also

1994 to 1997;1999;2000;2001;2002

 

Sussex Masters Lodge

 

Nos  28 (Aug 1954)  to  36 (1964-65)

And

Nos  38 ((1968-69)  to 41  (1976-77)

 

 

 

Red Cross of Constantine

Report   1906-1910  with Supreme council bookplate                                                 £15.00

Report 1926-1930  Vol VII                                                                                               £15.00

Report 1931-1935  Vol VIII                                                                                             £15. 00

Grand Council of the Allied Degrees

            Report 1916-1920 Vol V   with Supreme Council bookplate                                     £15.00

            See above H H C Prestige A Century of the Allied Masonic Degrees

 

Grand Lodge of Iowa

            Vol VIII   1880-82   and    Vol XXIV 1915  

 

ANCIENT ORDER OF ORIENTAL TEMPLARS – ORDO TEMPLI ORIENTIS  See above Francis King   The Secret Rituals of the O.T.O.

 

 

 

LADIES’ DEGREES

ORDER OF WOMEN FREEMASONS   Diamond Jubilee 1908-1968                                                      £20.00

 

HEROINES OF JERICHO   The book of the Scarlet line (with key)1948 Macoy Publishing        £20.00

 

 

 

PERIODICALS

The Kneph   1881-1900 complete issues of this periodical;.   Very rare items and complete in 2 red leather bound volumes. One volume contains Vols 1-4 and the second has volumes 5-8 plus a final statement dated  28th July 1900                                                         £500.00

 

The Builder Bound Volumes I 1915 and   IV  1918                                             £25.00 each

 

Masonic Record     Vol XVI  December 1935-Nov 1936  Bound in Brown cloth                   £40.00

 

Freemason

 

Square                         Large stock of early back numbers ask for your missing issues

 

 

ASSOCIATED ITEMS

Arthur Muir   Traditions and Customs of the Hammermen of Glasgow (and the Insignia and Relics of the Incorporation of Hammermen.  Glasgow 1923    an interesting book                        £35.00

 

 

The  Masonic Book Club     Illinois

                                     Masonic Almanacs and Anti-Masonic Almanacs

1962      1100/1300by Plez A Transou. Limited edition number1110/1300 as new                                                              £20.00

 

15                                           Masonic Concordance of the Holy Bible

            1984  1110/1550 

17                                Rise and Development of Organised Freemasonry   see also under Roy A Wells above

18                                 Lodge in Friendship Village   P W George

                1987  1110/1500

19                                           The records of the Hole Craft and Fellowship of Masons

                1988       1110/1600

21                                           Masonic Odes and Poems     Rob Morris

                1990  1110/1625

22                                           Lessing’s Masonic Dialogues  Gotthold Lessing

                1991  1110/1625

23                                           Folger Manuscript    S Brent Morris

                1992   1110/1600   in Large Format

 

24           1993   1110/1600 Freemasonry and Christianity  (Lectures from Two Ages )

               

26                                           Recollections of a Masonic Veteran    S Brent Morris

                1995   1110/1600   in Large Format

 

27           `                               The Freemasons Monitor  or Illustrations of Freemasonry

                                                Thomas Smith Webb

                1996    1100/1650

28                                           The Masonic Ladder  or   Nine steps to Ancient Freemasonry

                                             John  Shere

                1997  1110/1500

29                                           Masonic Harp    Geo Wingate Chase

            1998       1100/1500

 

 

Other publications

 

            Set of 4 volumes by John H VanGorden Bound in Red

            1980                Biblical Characters in Freemansonry

1985                Modern Historical Characters in Freemansonry

1986                Ancient and Early Medieval Historical Characters in Freemansonry

1987                Medieval  Historical Characters in Freemansonry

                                   

 

Softcovers

            1984                By Square and Compasses.  Building of Lincoln’s Home and its saga

                                    Wayne C Temple 

 

            1987                George Washington in New York

                                    Allan Bardeau and Alexander Bleimann

 

            1993                Making a Mason at Sight   Louis Williams

 

            1994                Mystic Tie and Men of Letters    Robin L Carr

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

The Caliph of Bagdad by Sylvanus Cobb jnr a novel written in C19th and loosely  based on the ritual of the Royal and Select Masters degree.  This edition is  published by Masonic News of Detroit c 1920                                                                                                           £25.00

 

Old Tiler Talks  byCarl H Claudy  2nd edition Paperback                                             £10. 00

 

Anti-masonic Cartoon in the Catholic Sunday periodical in France ‘Le Pelerin’  The Pilgrim dated 10thApril 1910  Whole page Cartoon coloured and entitled The Radicals work for The International. (Les Radicaux travaillent pour ‘L’Internationale’                                 £20.00

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