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1st edition. Containing 6 imprints bound as one. Imprints range from Good (the 1st) to Very Good + (the 5 later ones); in a Good period half leather binding wth marbled boards. 8vo., PROCEEDINGS OF A SPECIAL GRAND COMMUNICATION OF THE M. W. GRAND LODGE, 62 pp., with engraved folding frontispiece of the future monument, text engravings; (bound with) PROCEEDINGS OF A GRAND ANNUAL COMMUNICATION OF THE GRAND LODGE OF VIRGINIA IN THE CITY OF RICHMOND, on the evening of the second Monday in December, being the ninth day of the month, A.L. 5850 - A.D. 1850. Richmond: Warrock. 1850. 85 pp.; (bound with) PROCEEDINGS OF THE GRAND LODGE OF VIRGINIA.Dec. 8th, 5851, A.D. 1851. Richmond: Warrock. 1851. 108 pp.; (bound with) PROCEEDINGS OF A GRAND ANNUAL COMMUNICATIONS OF THE GRAND LODGE OF VIRGINIA, .13th day of December, 1852. Richmond: Warrock. 1852. 51 pp.; PROCEEDINGS OF A GRAND ANNUAL COMMUNICATIONS OF THE GRAND LODGE OF VIRGINIA, .12th day of December, 1853. Richmond: Warrock. 1853. 101, (1) pp., with engraved obituary page.; (bound with) REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON MASONIC JURISPRUDENCE, TO THE M.W. GRAND LODGE OF VIRGINIA, at its Grand Annual Communication, held in Richmond, December, 1855. Richmond: Chas. H. Wynne. 1856. 41 pp. Bound in period half leather, with green marbled paper over boards, title on spine in gilt. The boards are moderately rubbed, Some light worming on the first few preliminary pages. The folding frontispiece has been misfolded, with its top edge chipped where it overhung the text block. Rare scattered foxing; some title pages browned. A Good copy, with Very Good contents, on average. 6 imprints of the Free Masons of Virginia, 1850-58. The 'Special Grand Communications' relate to the Washington Monument by Thomas Crawford being erected in Richmond. In particular, the Cornerstone of the monument, and the items that were to be placed within: a piece of Washington's mahogany coffin, Bible, Extracts from the Masonic Lodge in Fredericksburg from 1754 showing Washington's initiation, coins, medals, Charters and By-laws from early Virginia, portraits of George and Martha, etc. All six imprints show an interesting picture of early Virginian Freemasonry. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 23515
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