1773 · Paris
by FREEMASONRY
Paris: Le Breton, 1773. 8vo (192 x 120 mm). 566 pages. 5 leaves are cancels, as called for in the Avis au relieur on the last page (the 5 cancels were originally the last 5 leaves of the final quire). Marginal tear to pp. 399-400, not affecting text. Contemporary French gold-tooled morocco, covers tooled with a triple rule frame enclosing a wide dentelle border incorporating emblems of the Freemasons (compasses & squares), stars, shooting stars, and a pair of shaking hands, fleurs-de-lis at corners, at center a large double-ruled Masonic triangle whose band is filled with pointillé dots, inner triangle with a shooting star at each corner and the initial (truncated)