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Ahiman Rezon, or a help to all that are, or would be free and accepted Masons. (With many additions.) The third edition. By Lau. Dermott, D.G.M.
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DERMOTT, Laurence (1720--1791)
Ahiman Rezon, or a help to all that are, or would be free and accepted Masons. (With many additions.) The third edition. By Lau. Dermott, D.G.M.
London (Place), printed for James Jones, Grand Secretary; and sold by Peter Shatwell,, 1778.
[4], iv, lvi, lvi--lxii, [1], 232 p., engr.frontis., engr. dedic. ; 21.1 cm. (8º)
First edition 1756. Includes 'A Collection Of Masons Songs, With Several Ingenious Prologues and Epilogues. To Which Is Added, Solomon's Temple, An Oratorio [by James E. Weeks]' (pp. [107]--232). Engraved dedication to the Earl of Atholl inserted after title-page, signed by James Jones, followed by a letterpress 'Explanation of the Frontispiece'. Page lvi duplicated in pagination, p. 231 misnumbered 213. Page xlviii of the Soane copy has the text of footnote (9), which breaks off after the third line '... and having' completed in manuscript [5 lines]. ESTC t84745.
Binding C18th red goat, gilt-tooled Greek key borders (to a masonic design), gilt-tooled spine, green morocco spine-label, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.
Reference Number 328
Additional Names Weeks, James Eyre (b.$1719?); Solomon's Temple (Oratorio); Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) - Oratorio
Ahiman Rezon, or a help to all that are, or would be free and accepted Masons. (With many additions.) The third edition. By Lau. Dermott, D.G.M.
London (Place), printed for James Jones, Grand Secretary; and sold by Peter Shatwell,, 1778.
[4], iv, lvi, lvi--lxii, [1], 232 p., engr.frontis., engr. dedic. ; 21.1 cm. (8º)
First edition 1756. Includes 'A Collection Of Masons Songs, With Several Ingenious Prologues and Epilogues. To Which Is Added, Solomon's Temple, An Oratorio [by James E. Weeks]' (pp. [107]--232). Engraved dedication to the Earl of Atholl inserted after title-page, signed by James Jones, followed by a letterpress 'Explanation of the Frontispiece'. Page lvi duplicated in pagination, p. 231 misnumbered 213. Page xlviii of the Soane copy has the text of footnote (9), which breaks off after the third line '... and having' completed in manuscript [5 lines]. ESTC t84745.
Binding C18th red goat, gilt-tooled Greek key borders (to a masonic design), gilt-tooled spine, green morocco spine-label, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.
Reference Number 328
Additional Names Weeks, James Eyre (b.$1719?); Solomon's Temple (Oratorio); Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) - Oratorio