Scarlet Book of Free Masonry : Containing a Thrilling and Authentic Account of the Imprisonment, Torture, and Martyrdom of Free Masons and Knights Templars, for the Past Six Hundred Years

See photos for condition details. Hardcover, brown cloth boards, blind stamped, and decorated in silver and gilt. A beautiful example boards being clean and cloth still having the original shine. The only issue being some very light sunning to the spine. Floral end pages and front and rear are clean with no markings, no hinge issues. Second end page shows the original owner signature lightly written in pencil at the bottom where there is also a few smudge marks. Color frontispiece is protected by the original opaque page acting as a tissue guard. Remaining pages are toned due to age but show little use. There were a couple other small smudge marks or foxing stains noted but nothing serious. There is an issue with the binding starting at page 200 to approximately 220: the quadrant of pages is slightly offset to where you could see the binder string and the image at page 200 has separated about 2 inches at the bottom. Despite this issue the book is still graded as fine due to the beautiful condition of the exterior and overall condition of the pages.…