[FREEMASONRY]. DEVOT (Adolphe)]. Anglo-Saxon Poem on the Constitutions of Masonry, translated literally on the text [followed by] Here begin the Constitutions of the art of geometry according to Euclyde. In French and English, manuscript on paper and facsimile printing. France, 19th c. 24 ff. preceded by 2 blank ff. and followed by 3 blank ff., title in red and black with Masonic emblems, facsimile on blue paper . Bound in full aubergine chagrin cloth, smooth spine, title in gilt letters on the upper board : " The oldest historical document of Freemasonry in England ". Dimensions : 200 x 155 mm.

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