Manual of the Order of the Eastern Star: Containing the Symbols, Scriptural Illustrations, Lectures, Etc., Adapted to the System of Adoptive Masonry.
New York: Masonic Publishing and Manufacturing Company, 1871. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Small Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2346871
Revised and enlarged edition, 60th thousand. Boards lightly rubbed, binding a bit shaken, front hinge just beginning to loosen.
86, [3] pp. Color star frontispiece and presentation page, engraved illustrations in text. An early Masonic manual by the organization's National Grand Secretary, mainly focusing on the admission of women into Freemasonry. Robert Macoy was a prominent Mason who helped found the Order of the Eastern Star and the Order of the Amaranth, as well as the Macoy Publishing & Masonic Supply Company. "The Order of the Eastern Star is a Masonic appendant body open to both men and women. It was established in 1850 by lawyer and educator Rob Morris, a noted Freemason, but was only adopted and approved as an appendant body of the Masonic Fraternity in 1873."
Price: $150.00