LA RIVE, A.C.

La femme et l'enfant dans la franc-maçonnerie universelle.

Paris, Delhomme & Briguet, 1894.

8vo. With the original front wrapper. Spine and back wrapper missing. Quires partly detached. Internally fine and clean. VIII, (2), 746 pp.

First edition of one of the most famous works produced in connection with the notorious Taxil Affair and anti-masonic literature in general. Written by Abel Clarin de la Rive (1855–1914), director of the Anti-Masonic Council of France, he here accepts Léo Taxil’s falsly fabricated claims that Freemasonry was controlled by Satanic “Palladists.”

Following Taxil’s public confession in 1897 that the entire story was a hoax the book became a remarkable document of one of the greatest literary and religious deceptions of the nineteenth century.

Order-nr.: 63269