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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 ; derived from official sources

by Robert Freke Gould, Enoch T. Carson, Josiah Josiah Hayden Drummond, William James Hughan, David Murray Lyon, T. S. Parvin & A. F. A. Woodford

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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Volume 1 is undated Volume 1 with added illustrated title page Includes bibliographical references Binding: gilt and blind tooled leather boards; front board with gilt stamped armorial masonic vignette and eye in the pyramid symbol above; turn-ins gilt; all edges gilt Library lack volume 3

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Initiatory orders and secret societies and Pyramids, ancient engineering, and sacred architecture.

  • Initiatory orders and secret societies

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, openlibrary, and openlibrary-historical matched “Freemasonry”. Retained metadata contains “Freemasonry” in the title, “Freemasonry” in the subject metadata, and “Freemasonry” in the edition title.

    • “Freemasonry”· via Internet Archive
    • “Freemasonry”· via Open Library
    • “Freemasonry”· in title
    • “Freemasonry”· in subject
    • “Freemasonry”· in edition title
  • Pyramids, ancient engineering, and sacred architecture

    Retained metadata contains “pyramid” in the description.

    • “pyramid”· in description

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its antiquities, symbols, constitutions, customs, etc., derived from official sources throughout the world

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1884-01-01T00:00:00Z—English—Public digitized item

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 ; derived from official sources

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1882Thomas C. JackEnglish—Public

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Getty Research Institute
  • Digitization sponsor: Getty Research Institute
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Open Library reports 8 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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openlibrary-work:OL5017841W
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