REECE, W. H. (translator).

An Essay On The Mysteries Of the true object of the brotherhood of Free Masons. Translated from the French.

London, Simpkin & Marshall, 1862.

8vo. In contemporary (original?) blue boards with paper title-label to front board. With the translator's presentation inscription to a certain Henry Yates to front free end-paper. Binding with wear and scratches, internally brownspotted. (8), IX, 10-44 pp. 

Presentation-copy from the translator of the exceedingly rare first English translation of the anonoumously published french work on freemasons. Written in the form of a letter to an unnamed gentleman the work seeks to explain common misconceptions about Freemasonry while explaining the true aims of the Craft. It offers a fascinating insight into eighteenth-century masonry.

Order-nr.: 63286