ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE. - RITUAL DES TROIS PREMI - Lot 115

ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE. - RITUAL DES TROIS PREMIERS DEGRES SYMBOLIQUES de la Franc-Maçonnerie Écos[saise]. [Paris], Suprême Conseil de France (imp. lith. Melotte), [circa 1876]. 3 parts in one large in-4 volume, black half-chagrin with gilt fillets and cold scrollwork with gilt Masonic motifs including the symbol of the Supreme Council of France, dark green chagrined percaline boards with gilt title on the first board accompanied by a gilt Masonic motif and a label bearing no. 240. 164 pp. in all, i.e.: 6 unnumbered pp. of which the 2nd is blank, 3 pp. numbered i to iii, 57 pp. numbered 1 to 57, 3 unnumbered pp., 51 pp. numbered 58 to 108, 2 unnumbered pp., 41 pp. numbered 109 to 149, one blank p.; binding a little rubbed with worn covers and corners. Fully lithographed dust jacket, illustrated with Masonic motifs in the text, some repeated, including the emblem of the Supreme Council of France. This copy bears: the handwritten Lodge name La Franchise Écossaise and its handwritten number "240" repeated several times; a lithographed visa signed in three places by Jean-Baptiste Millet-Saint-Pierre, head of the General Secretariat of the Supreme Council of France; and a lithographed mailing with handwritten additions signed by François-Marie Delongray, president of the Commission d'Installation du Suprême Conseil de France, to La Franchise Écossaise Lodge of Paris, no. 240. La Franchise Écossaise, founded in 1876, merged in 1885 with the Osiris Scottish Lodge, of which Delongray was Venerable.