Books: History, Nature and Objects of Masonry, Blenheim in Blenheim, Marlborough for sale

Wrappers missing. Moderate soiling to title page and final leaf. Corners of most leaves a little rubbed and worn and dog-eared. 2"corner missing from final advertisement leaf, without loss of text. Contemporary owner's signature of R. B. Willis on title page.; Uncommon. WorldCat shows no copies for US libraries and two copies in the United Kingdom. 62 pages + [2] pages advertisements. Lacking wrappers. Page dimensions: 174 x 107mm."Masonry is certainly a very extraordinary fact - involved as to its origin in the obscurity, and invested with all the interest that attaches to remote antiquity. // We may indeed smile at the fond enthusiasm which assumes into the rank of Grand Master Masons, invests with the titles, and surrounds with the machinery of modern lodges, the very first man of the human family, the pious Enoch, the patriarch preacher Noah, and other venerated heroes of antediluvian record, an admire the cool contempt of common chronology with which the famous mathematician Euclid is thrust into this'breathing world'some sixteen centuries before his time [.]"- page 5. The author was"Builder, Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Master of the Lodge St. Mark,&c. and Author of the'Architecture, Architects, and Builders of the Middle Ages.'"; 12mo
Author
James Miller
Title
History, Nature and Objects of Masonry
Publisher name
J. C. Kastner, London
Shipping time
2 - 5 days
Publication year
1853
Edition
First edition
Listing condition
Used
Item condition
Good
Vendor name
Renaissance Books
Vendor rating
Abebof326d