Brother G.H. Stapleton – Stapleton’s Hand Book of Free Masonry -with hand coloured plates – 1857

Titel: Stapleton's Hand Book of Free MasonryAuteur: Compiled from various authors by Brother G.H. StapletonUitgever: authority of the right worshipful the provincial Grand Master of Bengal (title engraving)3rd Edition revised and improved - Calcutta R.C. Lepage & Co., British LibraryJaar: 1857Drukker: J. Baptist, Calcutta.Inhoud: Titelgravure, titelpagina.16 pagina’s gravures deels met handkleuring. Tevens een rijke hoeveelheid vignetten tussen de tekst (letter press).Table of Contents (ii pp.) -zie foto's.Contents summary: What is Masonry?, principles: brotherly Love, Relief and Truth, Origin and advantages, Importance of Secrets of Masonry demonstrated, Ceremony of opening and closing a Lodge, Admission of candidates, Illustrations, Orders in architecture, Antiquity (Tuscan, Doric, ionic, Corinthian), Five senses of human nature, Seven liberal arts and sciences, Grammar, rhetoric, Arithmetic, Music, Astronomy, Pot of incense, Bee-hive, Book of Constitution, All-Seeing Eye, Hour glass, Scythe, Faith, Hope, Charity, Temperance, Prudence, Fortitude, Justice, God and Religion, of Lodges, Masters, Wardens, Behaviour, Initiation into Degrees, Ceremonies, Funeral Services, Odes, Anthems and Songs, Masonic Toasts, etc.Originele schutbladen voorin en achterin met publisher’s pages.Conditie: pp. 81-88 veel roestplekjes (zie de foto). Verder nagenoeg smetteloos. Het boek is vochtvrij en geurloos. Algehele staat inclusief de band, scharnieren en bindwerk: Goed tot zeer goed.Verzending aangetekend en volledig verzekerd.