(The literature of Masonry is very large,
and the following is only a small selection of such books as the
writer has found particularly helpful in the course of this study.
The notes and text of the foregoing pages mention many books,
sometimes with brief characterizations, and that fact renders
a longer list unnecessary here.)
Anderson, Book of Constitutions; (1723,
1738)
Armitage, A Short Masonic History, 2 vols.
Armitage, The Old Gilds of England; 1918.
Arnold, History and Philosophy of Masonry Ashmole, Diary
Authors' Lodge No.3456, London, Transactions, Volumes 1 to 3
Aynsley, Symbolism of the East and West
Bacon, New Atlantis.
Barratt & Sachse, Freemasonry in Pennsylvania, 1727-1907;
1919
Bayley, Lost Language of Symbolism
Boutelle, The Man of Mt. Moriah
Breasted, Religion and Thought in Egypt
Bromwell, Restorations of Masonic Geometry and Symbolry
Budge, The Gods of the Egyptians
Bywater, Notes on Lawrence Dermott and His Work; 1884
Callahan, Washington, the Man and the Mason
Calvert, Bicentenary of the Grand Lodge of England, 1717-1917;
1917
Calvert, The Grand Stewards and Red Apron Lodges; 191
Campbell-Everden, Freemasonry and Its Etiquette; 1919
Capart, Primitive Art in Egypt
Carr, The Swastika
Catholic Encyclopedia, art. "Masonry"
Churchward, Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man
Churchward, The Arcana of Freemasonry
Conder, Hole Craft and Fellowship of Masonry
Crowe, Things a Freemason Ought to Know
Cumont, Mysteries of Mithra
Da Costa, Dionysian Artificers
Darrah, The Evolution of Freemasonry; 1920
Darrab, The Master's Assistant
De Quincey, Works, vol. xvi
Dill, Roman Life from Nero to Aurelius
Encyclopedia Britannica (11th ed.), art. "Freemasonry"
Evans, A Primer of Masonic History; 1919
Evans, The Thomson Masonic Fraud; 1922
Findel, History of Freemasonry
Finlayson, Symbols and Legends of Freemasonry
Fort, Early History and Antiquities of Masonry
Goldby, A Century of Masonic Working; 1921
Gorringe, Egyptian Obelisks
Gould, Atholl Lodges
Gould, Collected Essays on Freemasonry
Gould, Concise History of Freemasonry
Gould, History of Freemasonry (Original edition, 3 and 6 vol.),
(American edition, 4 and 5 vol.)
Gould, Military Lodges from 1732 to 1899
Gould, The Four Old Lodges
Haige, Symbolism
Harrison, Ancient Art and Ritual
Hartiand, Ritual and Beiief
Hastings, Encyclopedia of Religion, art. "Freemasonry"
Hawkins, Concise Cyclopedia of Freemasonry
den, Washington and his Masonic Compeers
Haywood, A Vest Pocket History of Freemasonry; 1915
Haywood, Symbolical Masonry; 1923
Haywood, The Great Teachings of Masonry; 1923
Heiron, Ancient Freemasonry and the Old Dundee Lodge No.18, 1722-1920;
1921
Holland, Freemasonry and the Great Pyramid
Hope, Historical Essay on Architecture
Hughan and Stilison, History of Freemasonry and Concordant Orders
Hughan, Masonic Sketches and Reprints
Hughan, Memorials of the Masonic Union of A.D. 1813; 2d edition,
1913.
Hughan, Old Charges of British Freemasons
Hughan, Origin of the English Rile of Freemasonry
Hutchinson, The Spirit of Masonry
Jewish Encyclopedia, art. "Freemasonry"
Johnson, The Beginnings of Freemasonry in America; 1924
Kennedy, St. Paul and the Mystery-Religions
Lang, History of Freemasonry in the State of New York; 1922
Lawrence, Military Lodges (pamphlet)
Lawrence, Practical Masonic Lectures
Lawrence, Sidelights on Freemasonry
Leicester Lodge of Research, No.2429, Transactions
Lessing, Ernst and Falk
Lethaby, Architecture
Lockyear, Dawn of Astronomy
Macbride, Speculative Masonry: Its Mission, Its Evolution and
Its Landmarks; 2d edition, 1924
Mackey, Encyclopedia of Freemasonry
Mackey, History of Freemasonry, 7 vols.
Mackey, Symbolism of Freemasonry
Manchester Association for Masonic Research, Transactia
Marshall, Nature a Book of Symbols
Maspero, Dawn of Civilization
Mead, Quests New and Old
Moehler, Symbolism
Moret, Kings and Gods of Egypt
Morris, Lights and Shadows of Freemasonry
Morris, The Poetry of Freemasonry
Newton, The Men's House; 1923
Oliver, Antiquitics of Freemasonry
Oliver, Masonic Sermons
Oliver, Revelations of a Square
Oliver, Theocratic Philosophy of Masonry
Patton, Freemasonry; Its Symbolism, Religious Nature a Law of
Perfection
Peters, Masons as Makers of America; 1921
Pike, Morals and Dogma
Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride
Porter, Mediaeval Architecture
Pound, Lectures on Masonic Jurisprudence; 1916
Pound, Philosophy of Freemasonry; new edition, 1924.
Pound, The Pht'osophy of Masonry
Preston, Illustrations of Masonry
Quatuor Coronati Lodge, No.2076, London, Transaction annual volumes
1888 to date
Ravenscroft, Further Notes on the Comacines; 1919
Ravenscroft, The Comacines
Reade, The Veil of Isis
Robertson, History of Freemasonry in Canada; 1900
Rogers, History of Prices in England
Ruskin, Swen Lamps of Architecture
Sachase, Benjamin Franklin as a Freemason
Sachse, Washington's Masonic Correspondence; 1915
Sadler, Emulation Lodge of Improvement No. 256, 1823-1903; 1904
Sadler, Masonic Facts and Fictions
Sadler, Masonic Reprints and Revelations
Schure, Hermes and Plato
Schure, Pythagoras
Scott, The Cathedral Builders
Sibley, The Story of Freemasonry
Smith, English Guilds
St. Andrew's Lodge (Boston), Centennial Memorial Volumes
Stembrenner, Origins and Early History of Masonry
Steiner, The Way of Initiation
Stevens, Cyclopedia of Fraternities
Stewart, Symbolical Teaching, or Masonry and its Message
Street, Symbolism of the Three Degrees; new edition, 1924
Tyler, Oaths, Their Origin, Nature, and History
Underhill, Mysticism
Vibert, Freemasonry Before the Existence of Grand Lodges
Vibert, The Story of the Craft; 1921
Waite, Real History of Rosicrucians
Waite, Secret Tradition in Freemasonry
Waite, Studies in Mysticism
Watts, The Word in the Pattern
Webster, Primitive Secret Societies
Wilmshurst, The Meaning of Masonry; 1922
Wright, Indian Masonry
Wright, Masonic Legends and Traditions; 1921
Wright, Roman Catholicism and Freemasonry; 1922
Wright, The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites; 1920
Yarker, Arcane Schools
Yarker, Recapitulation of all Masonry
Yarker, The Guild Charges
The Masonic Service Association of the United States, 815 Fifteenth St., Washington, D. C., has issued a Speeial Bulletin on "Masonic Libraries and Literature," which contains a list of more than three hundred recommended Masonic books. This indispensable eighty-page Bulletin will be sent to any address for twenty-five cents in stamps.
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