UNITED STATES, ROYAL ARCH, GENERAL GRAND CHAPTER.

Constitution of the General Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, for the United States of America, as revised and adopted, September 1844.

Baltimore, Jos. Robinson, 1845.

8vo. Without wrappers. Traces in margin from having been bound. A few pencil-annotations to upper margin of title-page, otherwise nice and clean. 19 pp.

First edition of the official 1844-revision of the constitutional framework governing American Royal Arch Masonry, issued by the General Grand Chapter during the formative expansion of York Rite Freemasonry in the United States. Printed in Baltimore, being one of the principal centers of American Masonic publishing in the pre-war period. Printed for internal use it is rarely found in the trade.

Order-nr.: 63215