AMERICAN FREEMASONRY
A discourse Delivered in the new Meetinghouse at Chelsea in the City of Norwich: Before an Assembly of free and accepted masons, Convened, for the Celebration of the Festival of St. john the Baptist, on Friday the 24th of June, in the Year of light, 5796.
Norwich [Connecticut].
Printed by Brother John Sterry and Co., 1796.
First edition.
8vo.
27pp, [1]. With a terminal page of publisher's advertisements. Uncut, stitched, as issued in original publisher's powder blue wrappers. Extremities chipped and spotted, early inked gift inscription to upper wrapper: 'Revd. Jas: Story from Eben: (?)Hemlington'. Occasional browning to margins.
The sole edition of a sermon, in original unsophisticated state, delivered by John Tyler (1742-1823), to the Free and Accepted Masons of Norwich, Connecticut at the newly instituted meeting-house in the district of Chelsea during the annual festival of the Nativity of John the Baptist. Tyler was the first rector of Christ Church, Norwich; a position he held for fifty-four years.
ESTC locates just three copies worldwide (Harvard, LoC, and Yale).
ESTC locates just three copies worldwide (Harvard, LoC, and Yale).
ESTC W30811.
£ 625.00
Antiquates Ref: 30887
