THE HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY. THE HISTORY OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND PROGRESS IN THE UNITED STATES. THE HISTORY OF THE SYMBOLS OF FREEMASONRY AND THE HISTORY OF THE A.A. SCOTTISH RITE. VOLUME ONE.

266pp; blue cloth with gilt design and lettering. Top page edges gilded; marbled endpapers. No library stamps; no bookplate; no owner name or markings. Contents clean and tight. Includes full-page engraved plates, tissue-protected, b/w and color. Chapters: Prehistoric Masonry; Tradition and History in Masonry; The Old Manuscripts; The Legend of the Craft; The Halliwell Poem and the Legend; The Legend, the Germ of History; The Origin of Geometry; The Legend of Lamech's Sons and the Pillars; The Tower of Babel; The Legend of Nimrod; The Legend of Euclid; The Legend of the Temple; The Extension of the Art into Other Countries; Legend of St. Alban; The York Legend; The Andersonian Theory; The Prestonian Theory; The Hutchinson Theory; The Oliverian Theory; The Temple Legend; Freemasonry and the Ancient Mysteries; Druidism and Freemasonry; Freemasonry and the Crusades; The Scottish Templars.