LODGE OF ANCIENT DRUIDS IN BRADFORD 1835
History of the Ancient Druids, detailing the Rise and Origin of that People; their manners, customs, religion, dress, funerals, sacrifices etc. Delivered as an address to the U.A.O.D. by R A Thos. Johnson, Late of the Queen's Head, Leeds. To which are added a few recitations in prose and verse, etc etc.
Bradford, Printed by E Keighley, 1835.
Small duodecimo, pagination: iv, [3]-122, bound in original cloth with printed paper label to upper board, which is a little rubbed and soiled, but a very good sound copy.
FIRST EDITION, a very rare example of 19th Century Druidic revival for Masonic use, including 'Introduction of an Ancient Briton into a Lodge of Druids.'
The author, as noted on the title, was 'late of the Queen's Head, Leeds.' Only the British Library copy traced in COPAC. SOLD!
J & S Wilbraham Antiquarian Books