The History of Freemasonry Its Antiquities/Symbols/Constitutions, Customs etc by Robert Freke Gould This book is Volume III containing four chapters.
Hardback book with blue cloth binding with green design and gilt coloured lettering on the spine and front board. Containing six coloured plates of Regalia with tissue guards and a frontispiece etching by C Laurie of His Grace The Duke of Abercorn, C.B., Grand Master Mason of Ireland. Also illustrations in black and white of Arms of Masons, Carpenters, etc; Seals and Tokens of French and German Guilds and The Profession of a Benedictine Monk.
Book size: 29 x 22 x 3cm approx.
Publisher: The Caxton Publishing Company, London.
Undated.
Book pages in excellent condition, well bound but with minor foxing mainly to closed page edges.
The boards have a lttle shelf wear of rubbing along the spine and bumped corners, minor chipping and white spots/marks mainly to the front board with feint black fingerprints inside this board also. A reference number has been written in the middle of the front flyleaf page.
Weight 1200kg approx
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.