The new book of constitutions of the most ancient and honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons : containing their history, charges, regulations ... also some rules necessary to be observed by the committee of charity, not published before, together with a choice collection of mason's songs, poems, prologues, and epilogues pub. by the order, and with the sanction of the Grand-lodge / collected from the book of constitutions published in England, in the year 1738, by ... James Anderson ... for the use of the lodges in Ireland, by Edward Spratt ...

Accession number: 
PML 142057
Author: 
Anderson, James, approximately 1680-1739.
Published: 
Dublin : Printed by J. Butler, for the editor, 1751.
Description: 
viii, [4], [9]-172, 40 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. (engraving) ; 20 cm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

All t.p. information from copy at Bancroft Library (RLIN CUBUGLAD84001104); folded plate not in Bancroft copy.
Library's copy imperfect: lacks t.p. and all pages before p. 23 and after p. 172 (including the collected songs and verses); folded frontispiece plate torn and missing corner at lower left.

Binding: 
Irish binding in contemporary red morocco, tooled in gilt with diamond medallion of light brown morocco onlaid on both panels.
Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Department: 
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