Author: PRESTON, WILLIAM (1742-1818) / OLIVER, GEORGE (1782-1867) . Title: Illustrations Of Masonry, By The Late William Preston, Esq. Past Master Of The Lodge Of Antiquity, Acting By Immemorial Constitution. With Additions And Copious Notes By George Oliver. Sixteenth Edition.
Description: London: Whittaker and Co. Ave-Maria-Lane, 1846 . 0. A very good publishers cloth binding. 8vo. 7.75" x 4.75" x 1.25" (19.7cm x 12.2cm x 3.3cm). pp.xxiv./pp.456. Tan buckram binding. Blindstamp decoration to both boards. Smooth spine, carefully re-cased, with dulled gilt titles: "Preston's Masonry". Corners and edges rubbed and bumped. Library label to verso of the front board: "Lancaster Masonic Library. Presented by W. Bro. J. W. Wearing, March , 1910." . Previous owner's signature to front free-endpaper: "Mattw. Heathcote, Lancaster". Printed title-page. Clear English text throughout on lightly toned paper. A good copy of this scarce 19th century publication. ** N.B. Matthew Heathcote is listed as an Architect and a Member of the Lodge of Fortitude No. 281 , Lancaster, from 1837.
Keywords: 52434 Fred Hockley Matthew Heathcote Oliver George Illustration of Masonry by the Late William Preston Henry Josiah Whymper Fred Hockley Whittaker Treacher Punjab 45530 Masonic: : 19th Century
Price: GBP 250.00 = appr. US$ 357.00 Seller: Chilton Books
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