1891/454.1

Solomon in all his Glory: or, The Master-Mason. Being a true guide To the inmost Recesses of Free-Masonry, Both Ancient and Modern. 1777

Date:- 1777 -

UGLE Classification:- A 795 WIL - Anti-Masonry & Vindications: So-called `Exposures'

WMLMT Classification:- Ritual

Order:- Craft (& Freemasonry General)

Details

Containing a minute account of the pro~ ceedings from an Entered Apprentice to a Past Master, with the different Signs, Words, and Gripes. Illustrated with the four following copper plates, most elegantly engraved— viz.—1. The manner of introducing an intended Brother into a Lodge, with the Ceremony of his taking the Oaths, his left breast and right knee bare, with the bandage on his eyes, and the Brethren surrounding himwith drawn swords, 2. The Ceremony of a new Brother receiving the Word from the most Respectable Master in a full assembly of the Fellow Craft in their Lodge. 3. A true plan of a Lodge, for the reception of a Fellow Craft, exhibiting a view of the Columns, the seven st.eps leading to the Altar, with the flaming Star, the three Lights, &c., &c. To which are added a complete List of all the English Regular Lodges in the World, according to their seniority, with the dates of each Constitution and days of meeting, and also Lists of the Scotch and Irish Lodges. By THOMAS WILSON, Esq., an officer in the army, and late Master of the Swan Tavern Lodge in the Strand.

Translated from the French. Original published at Berlin, and burnt by order of the King of Prussia, at the Intercession of the Free-Masons. London: Printed, and Dublin reprinted, for T. WILKINSON, No. 40 Winetavern Street, where may be had all sorts of Free Masons’ books. 1777.

This is a valuable and scarce edition, because of the plates, which are similar to those published with the unauthorised edition of the English “Constitutions” 1769, at Dublin. The work (as with the copy noted of l769) has generally the plates removed.

Properties

pp. viii. 72. 7”x4¼”.