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Antiquarian Library - Worcestershire Museum of Freemasonry
The History of Freemasonry : its antiquities, symbols, constitutions, customs, etc.Volume 3 of 3 (Gould, R.F.) 1887
Author:- R. F. Gould
Published by:- Thomas C. Jack, London
Printed by:- McFarlane & Erskine, Edinburgh
Number of Main Pages:- 502
Volume No.3
Date First Published:- 1887
UGLE Library Classification:- A 50 GOU - History and Philosophy of Freemasonry, History, General works, comprehensive
WMLMT Classification:- History
Order:- Craft (Blue Masonry)
Description
"Embracing an Investigation of the Records of the Organization of the Fraternity in England, Scotland, Ireland, British Colonies, France, Germany, and the United States.
Derived from Official Sources.
Bro. Gould’s History, published by Bro. T. C. Jack (lately deceased), Edinburgh, is far ahead of all other works of the kind, and is exhaustive, critical and reliable to a degree not hitherto attained by any general historian of the Craft. For the first time the Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons has a history worthy of its antiquity and importance; written by a scholar and assisted by brethren who have made the documents of the Society their life study. The author set out with a high aim and has realised all that was expected from him and even more. The spirit of the publisher in thus projecting and completing such a work is beyond praise.
Published for the benefit of the Masonic Charities."
