The Free-Mason's Magazine: or, General and Complete Library. Vol: IIII
The Free-Masons' Magazine
London: Printed for the Proprietor and sold by J Parsons. 1795.
First edition. Six issues of the magazine (January- June 1795) in one volume. 8vo in 4s. 208x124mm. pp. 432, 8. Registers and pagination are continuous. An engraved title page to the whole volume and each issue has its own separate title page. Each issue has an engraved portrait of a person mentioned in the magazine. Brown calf with a gilt roll border to cover, new spine in modern tan calf with raised bands and red morocco label lettered in gilt. There is the faintest imprint of large armorial labels on the upper and lower covers. Wear and bumping to corners and some scuffing to the boards and at the joints where the new spine has been joined. Front pastedown has a torn armorial bookplate matching the imprint of that on the covers. Internally very good with some browning and a little foxing to the plates.
The Free-Masons' Magazine (the title pages show the apostrophe in both places) was founded in 1793 and was one of the first of the journals for Masons. This volume is an early collection of six issues from the second year of publication of the magazine. The articles range from Masonic news as one would expect, to reports on politics and current affairs (both domestic and foreign), stories from history, moral and ethical teaching ("Detached Thoughts") and arts reviews rather splendidly entitled "Strictures on Public Amusement". In short, everything that the curious-minded eighteenth-century Freemason could possible want.
First edition. Six issues of the magazine (January- June 1795) in one volume. 8vo in 4s. 208x124mm. pp. 432, 8. Registers and pagination are continuous. An engraved title page to the whole volume and each issue has its own separate title page. Each issue has an engraved portrait of a person mentioned in the magazine. Brown calf with a gilt roll border to cover, new spine in modern tan calf with raised bands and red morocco label lettered in gilt. There is the faintest imprint of large armorial labels on the upper and lower covers. Wear and bumping to corners and some scuffing to the boards and at the joints where the new spine has been joined. Front pastedown has a torn armorial bookplate matching the imprint of that on the covers. Internally very good with some browning and a little foxing to the plates.
The Free-Masons' Magazine (the title pages show the apostrophe in both places) was founded in 1793 and was one of the first of the journals for Masons. This volume is an early collection of six issues from the second year of publication of the magazine. The articles range from Masonic news as one would expect, to reports on politics and current affairs (both domestic and foreign), stories from history, moral and ethical teaching ("Detached Thoughts") and arts reviews rather splendidly entitled "Strictures on Public Amusement". In short, everything that the curious-minded eighteenth-century Freemason could possible want.