The Yorkshire Lodges : A Century of Yorkshire Freemasonry

xiv, 120pp plus six tissue-guarded, plate illustrations. Bound in full red leather with gilt decorations and lettering, bevelled edges, five raised bands to spine, inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers – a handsome, impressive volume. (Boards show a few marks, rubbed at corners and around spine joints, stained on verso). Presentation inscription, dated 1888, on endpaper verso, together with some later pencilled notes; letter accompanying presentation, to the Provincial Grand Lodge of West Yorkshire, laid in. Scattered small, round ownership stamps of the Grand Lodge. Some pencil annotations to contents page. Two plates detached but present, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. A history of freemasonry in Yorkshire from the founding of the first Yorkshire Lodge in Scarborough in 1729, through the revival of the 1760s and up until 1828. 4to.