Masonic Mirror Journal Freemasonry Devoted (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Some chipping to marbled paper along tail edges of boards. Some light foxing.; An uncommon periodical. Monthly issues from November 1854 to November 1855. vii, [1], 740 pages. Printed by Ford & Tilt. Half-calf and marbled boards. Gilt rule on spine. Page dimensions: 204 x 133mm. "We have observed that it has been long a subject of regret amongst the brethren of the square and compass, that they have no literary organ conducted on such a principle as to admit of its doing greater justice to masonic intelligence than it were reasonable to expected from weekly newspapers, whose mission is for the most part political, and whose columns are overloaded with miscellaneous matter." - page 1. Includes reviews, summaries of Lodge meetings, fiction, obituaries, news, and parts of a serialised history of Freemasonry in England. Contemporary owner's signature of "R B Willis". Contemporary bookseller's ticket on front pastedown "Backwell [.] Castletown".; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…