The pocket manual, or free-mason's guide to the science of freemasonry, in three parts: containing A Syllabus of the Lectures, and a particular Detail of the Subjects treated in each Section: with Many interesting Remarks, Charges, &c. suited to the different Degrees

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Part one only, all published? xii, 59pp, [1]. Interleaved throughout. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, housed in contemporary gilt-tooled calf slipcase. Lightly rubbed and marked, slipcase heavily worn, with substantial loss. Marbled endpapers, very short tear to head of title page, else internally clean and crisp. The second located copy of a vade mecum for the use of members of the Grand Chapter of the Ancient and Venerable Order of Harodim, a rival degree of freemasonry, founded in 1787 by masonic lecturer William Preston (1742-1818), sometime official printer to the Grand Lodge, and author of Illustrations of Masonry (1775). According to the preliminary advertisement: 'To aid the improved Mason in the prosecution of his researches, is the principle intention of this Manual; and should the attempt succeed, the plan may probably be completed. In the mean time, a few copies of the first part only are printed; and, from the price affixed to each part, it is evident that a general sale is neither intended nor expected.' It would appear that no further parts were published; indeed, the secession did not thrive and Preston himself had been restored to his grand lodge privileges in 1789. ESTC records a single copy (BL). ESTC T504978. Size: 18mo. N° de ref. del artículo AQ27875

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