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[FREEMASONRY]. HARRIS, Thaddeus Mason, compiler. Constitutions of the Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons… Worcester, MA, 1798. Second edition. [With:] SICKELS, Daniel, editor. The Freemason's Monitor... NY, 1868.
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[FREEMASONRY]. HARRIS, Thaddeus Mason, Rev. Compiler. Constitutions of the Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons... Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, 1798. 

4to. Engraved frontispiece, woodcut device on title-page. Later roan-backed boards (upper cover detached with a few leaves disbound, lower joint starting, some wear). Provenance: George G. Lee (contemporary signature on title-page); discreet library markings on foot of spine and title verso).

Second edition incorporating revisions of the first edition, which was printed in 1792 when Paul Revere was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. A committee comprised of Revere, John Cutler, Isaiah thomas, Timothy Whiting, and william Bentley approved the revisions and corrections published in the second edition. 

[With:] SICKELS, Daniel, editor. The Freemason's Monitor; containing the Degrees of Freemasonry.... New York: Masonic Manufacturing Company, 1868. 12mo. Engraved frontispiece, printed music, woodcut illustrations. Original leather wallet-style binding gilt (a few repairs and minor losses, rebacked); cloth folding case. Provenance: George B. Munson (contemporary gift inscription from R. M. Palm). 

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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