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Sold Date: 02/12/2011
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Source: eBay
Category: Fraternal, Political, Organizations

BEST SET ON EBAY ! A MUST HAVE

GREAT CONDITION! RARE TO SEE SPINES IS SUCH GREAT SHAPE!

COMPLETE 7 Volume SET!

Mackey's

History of Freemasonry

With the Co-operation of many Eminent Authorities

including William James Hughan,

Past Senior Grand Deacon, Grand Lodge of England;

Past Senior Grand Warden, Egypt; Past Senior Grand Warden, Iowa, etc.

”And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” -

The Gospel according to Saint John, VIII:32

”Without knowledge there can be no sure progress”. - Charles Sumner

1921 The Masonic History Company - Chicago, New York, London

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This edition has GOLD GILT on all corners,
you will find each book also has the endpapers in GOLD GILT with masonic compass & squares impressed into it!
Also included in this edition is a CANVAS OIL PAINTING of Albert Mackey, also in the photos below. This is located in the front of volume 1.

Book Description:

-Beautiful 7 volume set of books, finely bound. NEW -- REVISED -- ENLARGED

-Brown leatherette boards with edges of boards of the volumes are decorated with borders featuring swords, hourglasses, eyes, and more.

-Masonic symbols and double eagles, symbols of the Blue Lodge, Royal Arch, York and Scottish Rites to spines.

-Gold gilt on all PAGE ENDS & ENDPAPERS

-Illustrations in full page color plates, B&W plates, in-line drawings. 2,375 pp

-Great Condition, 1921 Edition

-All books have photogravures and at least one color lithograph by William H. Gilbo.

- No writing throughout the books, In very good shape.

-Full color plates are bright and intact, only minor shelfwear to the top and bottom of spines, Slight foxing in some of volumes, does not affect set.

-Endpapers are present & firmly attached with no cracks or cracking.

-Many diagrams and smaller illustrations.

-Each Book is 11" tall x 8-1/4" wide x 1-1/2" thick !!

This is your opportunity to win a FINE 1921 set.

An excellent Masonic 7 Volume Set that is more than 75 YEARS OLD, in great condition! Every year these Books become harder to find!

Trace the origins of Freemasonry from its earliest roots, through the Knights Templar and Scottish Rite, and to America and the Boston Tea Party. Read about the founding fathers who were prominent Freemasons: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and others. Discover the relationship of the Order to the Druids, Rosicrucians, Rose Croix and its basis in the Kabalah and ancient mystery religions. From the Middle East, through Europe to the Americas, this is the complete history you are looking for.

Volume 1 of 7. This volume deals with prehistoric Masonry, with chapters entitled: tradition and history in Masonry; legendary history of Freemasonry; old manuscripts; legend of the craft; the Halliwell poem and the legend; origin of the Halliwell poem; the legend, the germ of history; origin of geometry; Lamech's sons and the pillars; legends of Hermes, Nimrod, Euclid, the temple, Charles Martel and Namus Grecus, St. Alban, York; tower of Babel; extension of the art into other countries; summary of the legend of the craft; Andersonian theory, plus others.
Volume 2 of 7. This volume deals with prehistoric and history of Masonry, with chapters entitled: Jesuits and Freemasonry; Freemasons and the Pythagoreans, Gnostics, Rosicrucians, Socinians, Essenes; Leland manuscript; Roman Colleges of Artificers; early Masonry in France and Britain; Masonry among the Anglo-Saxons, among others.
Volume 3 of 7. This volume deals with the history of Masonry, with chapters entitled: lodges of medieval Masons; Harleian manuscript a germ of history; early Masonry in Scotland; French guilds of the Middle Ages; traveling Freemasons of Lombardy; stonemasons of Germany; secrets of medieval Masons; Mason's marks; remote causes of the transition, among others.
Volume 4 of 7. The history of its introduc...