[14], 644 pp. + plates. Illustrated from numerous photographs, engravings, etc.; steel-engraved frontispiece portrait with author's facsimile autograph and tissue-guard. 11½x8¾, original full decorative blind-stamped black calf, spine lettered in gilt and gilt Masonry double bird emblem, marbled endpapers, hinges reinforced with red cloth, all edges gilt. First Edition.

Comprising a history of Egypt and the antiquity of Masonry, resulting from extensive research in India, Persia, Syria and the Valley of the Nile.