FREEMASONRY IN THE HOLY LAND. OR, LANDMARKS OF HIRAM'S BUILDERS: EMBRACING NOTES MADE DURING A SERIES OF MASONIC RESEARCHES, IN 1868, IN ASIA MINOR, SYRIA, PALESTINE, EGYPT AND EUROPE, AND THE RESULTS OF MUCH CORRESPONDENCE WITH FREEMASONS IN THOSE COUNTRIES.
Book Details + Condition: Published for the author (La Grange, KY), 1879 (Thirteenth Edition). By Robert Morris. 608 pages, with Notes and Index. Hardcover with brown pebbled boards and gilt to front and spine, measuring 9.25" x 6.75". Illustrated. Robert Morris was a renowned American
Freemason poet and composer of religious hymns, and creator the Order of the
Eastern Star. He composed over 400 poems, many pertaining to the Eastern Star
and Freemasonry, and spent many years of his life in the Holy Land. While there, he wrote hymns and poems based on his experiences and discoveries there, and also composed this massive volume, which contains more than 600 pages of information,
numerous illustrations and maps of the Holy Land, as well as steel engravings
of several Mason leaders of the period. Firm binding; wear to boards, with rubbing present; heavily rubbed corners and edges; chafing to spine ends, with small bit removed from bottom spine; "Masonic Holy Land League" paste-down to inside front board; a few dog-eared pages; toning to pages (including title page); small tear to ffep (at hinge); interior is clean and free of markings.
