Gould, Robert Freke.

The History of Freemasonry – Its Antiquities, Symbols, Constitutions, Customs, Etc. – Embracing an Investigation of the Records of the Organisations of the Fraternity in England, Scotland, Ireland, British Colonies, France, Germany, and the United States [of America]. Derived from Official Sources.

Six Volumes (complete set). London, Thomas C. Jack, 1887. Quarto (23 cm wide x 29 cm high). Pagination: Volume I: Frontispiece – Portrait of The Prince of Wales in Full Masonic Regalia, Pages 1 – 252 (continued in Volume II), 8 Illustrations (including Frontispiece) / Volume II: Frontispiece – Portrait of Colonel Le Gendre Starkie, Pages continue from Volume I = page 253 – page 504, with 8 Illustrations (including Frontispiece) / Volume III: Frontispiece – Portrait of his Grace the Duke of Abercorn, 248 pages with 9 Illustrations / Volume IV: Pages continue from Volume III = page 249 – page 502, with 8 Illustrations (including Frontispiece) / Volume V: Frontispiece – Portrait of The Earl Percy, 250 pages, with 8 Illustrations / Volume VI: Pages continue from Volume V: page 251 – page 502, with 8 illustrations (including Frontispiece). Hardcover / Original, bright blue publisher’s cloth with decorative gilt-ornament to each bindings. A stunning set in Near Mint condition with only very minor signs of wear.

This extraordinary set (in unusual, Near Mint condition) includes the following Chapters and Illustrations:

Volume I:

Chapter I – The Ancient Mysteries – The Essenes – The Roman Collegia – The Culdees
Chapter II – The Old Charges of British Freemasons
Chapter III – The Stonemasons (Steinmetze) of Germany)
Chapter IV – The Craft Guilds (Corps D’Etat) of France
Chapter V – The Companionage, or Les Compagnons du Tour de France

List of Illustrations in Volume I:

1. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales – Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England
2. His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught, Past Grand Warden
3. His Royal Highness the Duke of Albany, Past Grand Warden and Provincial Grand Master, Oxfordshire
4. Right Honourable the Earl of Carnarvon, Pro Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England and Provincial Grand Master, Somersetshire
5. Right Honourable the Earl of Lathom, Deputy Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England and Provincial Grand Master, West Lancashire
6. Right Honourable the Earl Ferrers, Provincial Grand Master of Leicester and Rutland
7. Right Honourable the Earl of Mar and Kellie, M.W.Grand Master Mason of Scotland
8. Sir Michael R. Shaw-Stewart, Baronet, R.W.Past Grand Master Mason, Scotland

Volume II:

Chapter VI – Medieval Operative Masonry
Chapter VII – The Statutes Relating to the Freemasons
Chapter VIII – Early British Freemasonry (Scotland)
Chapter IX – Masons’ Marks
Chapter X – The Quatuor Coronati (The Four Crowned or Foru Holy Martyrs)
Chapter XI – Apocryphal Manuscripts

List of Illustrations in Volume II:

1. Colonel Le Gendre Starkie, Provincial Grand Master of Lancashire, Eastern Division
2. Right Honourable the Marquis of Hartington, Provincial Grand Master of Derbyshire
3. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Edwards, Baronet, Provincial Grand Master of Yorkshire, West Riding
4. Sir Walter W.Burrell, Baronet, Provincial Grand Master of Sussex
5. William Pearce, Esq., Provincial Grand Master of Glasgow
6. Colonel Sir Francis Burdett, Baronet, Provincial Grand Master of Middlesex
7. Colonel Shadwell H. Clerke, Grand Secretary of the United Grand Lodge of England
8. Masons’ Marks

Volume III:

Chapter XII – Early British Freemasonry (England – I) – Masonic Tradition – Sir Christopher Wren – Papal Bulls – Annual Assembles
Chapter XIII – Early British Freemasonry (England II) – The Cabbala – Mysticism – The Rosicrucians – Elias Ashmole
Chapter XIV – Early Freemasonry (England III) – Ashmole – Mason’s Company – Plot – Randle Holme – The ‘Old Charges’
Chapter XV – Early British Freemasonry (England IV) – The ‘Old Charges’ – The Legend of the Craft – Light and Darkness – Gothic Traditions

List of Illustrations in Volume III:

1. Duke of Abercorn, K.G. Grand Master of Ireland
2. Earl of Zetland, Provincial Grand Master of Yorkshire, North and East Ridings
3. Lord Leigh, Provincial Grand Master of Warwickshire
4. Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, Baronet, Provincial Grand Master of North Wales and Shropshire
5. Sir E.A.H.Lechmere, Baronet, Provincial Grand of Worcestershire
6. Major George S. Tudor, Provincial Grand Master of Staffordshire
7. Arms of Masons, Carpenters, etc. [Joiners, Marblers, Tilers]
8. Seals and Tokens of French and German Guilds
9. The Profession of a Benedictine Monk

Volume IV:

Chapter XVI – Early British Freemasonry (1688-1723)
Chapter XVII – History of the Grand Lodge of England (1723-1760)
Chapter XVIII – Freemasonry in York
Chapter XIX – History of the Grand Lodge of England “According to Old Institutions″
Chapter XX – History of The Grand Lodge of England (1761-1813)

List of Illustrations in Volume IV:

1. Coloured Plate Arms of Masons, Freemaons, etc.
The Plate is a Chromolithograph, showing the Coat of Arms of:
a. A Painted Panel in the Possession of W.Hy Rylands / b. Banner in the Possession of the Lodge of York
c. Arms of the City of Cologne / d. Stone Masons of Strasbourg / e. Stone Masons of Nuremberg
f. The Arms borne by the Grand Lodge of All England / g. Masons of Cologne / h. Arms of Bricklayers and Tilers (1671)
2. The Marquess of Londonderry, Provincial Grand Master of Durham
3. Viscount Holmesdale, Provincial Grand Master of Kent
4. Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, Provincial Grand Master of Cornwall
5. Sir Charles Lanyon, Provincial Grand Master of County Antrim
6. Robert Freke Gould, Past Senior Grand Deacon of England
7. Grand Lodge Seals
8. An additional Coloured Plate of Arms of Masons, Carpenters, etc.

Volume V:

Chapter XXI – History of The United Grand Lodge of England (1814-1885)
Chapter XXII – History of The Grand Lodges of Ireland
Chapter XXIII – History of The Grand Lodge of Scotland
Chapter XXIV – Introduction of Freemasonry Abroad
Chapter XXV – Freemasonry in France
Chapter XXVI – Freemasonry in Northern Europe
Chapter XXVII – Freemasonry in The German Empire
1. Chart of the Chief Perversions of Freemasonry
2. Chart of a Synopsis of French Freemasonry
3. Chart of the Grand Lodges, Active and Extinct in Northern Europe
4. Chart of Active and Extinct Ruling Masonic Bodies in Germany

Volume VI:

Chapter XXVIII – Freemasonry in Southern Europe – Austria and Hungary – Switzerland – Italy – Portugal – Spain – Greece – Turkey – Roumania – Malta

Chapter XXIX – Freemasonry in Asia – Africa – West Indies – Mexico – Central America – South America – Australasia – Oceania

Chapter XXX – Sea and Field Lodges

Chapter XXXI – Freemasonry in the United States of America

Chapter XXXII – The Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland
L’Envoi / Appendix / Genera Index
1. Chart of Italian Grand Lodges
2. Chart of Portuguese and Spanish Grand Lodges

• Keywords: Catalogue No.7 – Religion · Duke of Abercorn, K.G. Grand Master of Ireland · Freemason · Freemasonry · Freemasonry in England · Freemasonry in France · Freemasonry in Germany · Freemasonry in Ireland · Freemasonry in the United States of America · Illustrations of Freemason Regalia and Marks
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 31949AB

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