The History of Freemasonry Its Antiquities/Symbols/Constitutions, Customs etc by Robert Freke Gould This book is Volume IV containing five 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 Masonic Regalia with tissue guards, a frontispiece of Arms of Masons, Freemasons, etc and illustrations of Grand Lodge Seals and more Arms of Masons, Carpenters, etc.
Book size: 29 x 22 x 3cm approx.
Publisher: The Caxton Publishing Company, London.
Undated.
Book pages in near excellent condition, well bound apart from the title page breaking away from binding. Also minor foxing mainly to closed page edges.
The boards are near excellent with a lttle shelf wear of rubbing along the spine and bumped corners. There are a few minor marks also. A reference number has been written in the centre 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.