Author: ASHE, JONATHAN / OLIVER, GEORGE (EDITOR) / COX, JOHN EDMUND (RE-EDITOR) .
Title: Masonic Manual; or, Lectures on Freemasonry: containing the Instructions, Documents, and Discipline of the Masonic Economy.
Description: London: Richard Spencer, 26 Great Queen Street, Opposite Freemasons' Hall, MDCCCLXX [ 1870 ] . 0. 8vo. pp.36/pp.319 . A very good original maroon cloth binding. plain boards with gilt titles and symbols to spine. Browned endpapers and light uniform toning to all pages. First few leaves with small edge tears and chips, where the pages have been crudely separated. Editor's Preface - John Edmund Cox, Athenaeum Club, August 3rd, 1870.Original dedication - Jonathan Ashe, Bristol, Nov. 1, 1813. Dr. Oliver's Address - Scopwick Vicarage, Aug. 14th, 1843. With fold-out plate at rear: "Copy of brother Captain Warren's Tracings.." A very good book. Referenced by: NSTC 2C41110 ** Ashe, D.D, Rev. Jonathan. A literary plagiarist who resided in Bristol, England. In 1814 he published "The Masonic Manual.."Ashe does not, it is true, pretend to originality, but abstains from giving credit to Hutchinson from whom he has taken at least two-thirds of his book.." - See Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, Albert G. Mackey.

Keywords: 51302 Ashe, Jonathan Oliver, George Cox, John Edmund Richard Spencer Masonic Manual; or, Lectures on Freemasonry: Containing the Instructions, Documents, and Discipline of the Masonic Economy. Masonic: : 19th Century


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