Ars Quatuor Coronatorum Unbound and Unfinished Paper Issue, being the Transactions of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge No.2076, London
Quatuor Coronati is the world’s premier research lodge. Consecrated in 1886, the Lodge’s founders wished to advance an evidence-based approach to study Masonic history and research the origins of Freemasonry. Their Transactions, published every year since the formation, contain reprints of lectures, other research papers and ‘notes & queries’ presented by members throughout that year.
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Original unbound and unfinished paper issue, supplied in multiple parts for the year folded ready for personal binding, 28 x 19cm approx. The page edges have not been trimmed, and therefore could still be bound in a personal binding. Number of pages varies with each year part, for individual contents, see image for selected year. Cover content also varies - see item photo. Final part of each year may contain combined index and frontispiece for the year - if this is included with the final part there will be a photo of it shown, if no photo shown it is not included.
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1. Near Mint: The pages and outer paper transit cover are in excellent condition, and the binding is secure and tight.
2. Excellent: The pages and outer paper transit cover are in excellent condition, and and the binding is secure and tight. There may be very slight sunning, age-toning or minor annotation to the cover (eg previous owner).
3. Very Good: The pages are in good condition, and the binding is secure and tight. There may be some discolouring, sunning, foxing or minor damage to pages and/or outer paper transit cover such as dog-earring, bumping, minor nicks or annotation on front pages.
4. Good. The pages are in good condition, but have some foxing, sunning or minor damage, and/or one or two may be loose or missing. The binding is loose, and there may be damage to outer paper transit cover and/or annotation on cover and/or front pages.
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This item is one of a number of Masonic items donated by members and being sold to raise money to aid the upkeep and maintenance of the Bath Masonic Museum Collection, which is housed in the vaults of Bath Masonic Hall, previously the original Bath Theatre Royal.
BATH MASONIC HALL
Built in 1750, it was the very first Provincial Theatre to receive a Royal Warrant by special act of Parliament, and was the Theatre in which many famous Regency actors and actresses made their names before transferring to the London Stage, including Sarah Siddons, John Henderson and Charles Incledon. It was closed as a Theatre in 1805, when the Theatre Royal Company transferred to the building that is still their current home in Bath. It was then acquired by the Benedictine Mission to Bath, and became one of the foremost Catholic Chapels in this country, post-emancipation, before being sold in 1865 to become the home to one of the oldest provincial Masonic Lodges in the country - Royal Cumberland Lodge No.41. The building is now open to the public for guided tours, together with the Masonic Museum established in 1925.