JONES, Stephen.: Masonic Miscellanies In Poetry And Prose: The Muse Of Masonry, The Masonic Essayist And The Free-Mason's Vade Mecum" by Stephen Jones Past-Master Of The Lodge Of Antiquity No. I. Acting By Immemorial Constitution. A New Edition Enlarged And Improved. , London: Printed by W. Wilson, 4 Greville-Street, For Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 31, Poultry; Longman, Hirst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-row; Crosby and Co. Stationers' Court; J. Asperne, Corn-Hill; and T. Keys, Coleman-Street, 1811

A very good later half leather binding. 12mo. 6" x 3.75" x 1" . pp.9/[3pp.]/pp.348 . Tan half calf over marbled boards. Smooth spine with gilt banding and gilt title: "Masonic Miscellanies". Yellow page edges. Marbled endpapers. Two previous owner's signatures to front free-endpaper. Engraved frontis of a masonic tracing board ("Published by Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, Augt. 1. 1811.), lightly soiled. Printed title also with light soiling. Dedication to William Preston. Clear English throughout, with just the odd blemish from previous use. The first song is by Robert Burns; many of the others are by "brothers" at various Masonic lodges around the country, including one by the editor Stephen Jones, "intended to have been sung at the Grand Feast, May 11, 1796." The first contribution to the section of essays is also by Jones, and is entitled, "A Vindication of Masonry from a Charge of having given rise to the French Revolution." A very good copy of this scarce book. ** "Stephen Jones (1763–1827) was an English literary editor, best known for his revision of the Biographia Dramatica. He was employed by William Strahan for four years, and afterwards by Thomas Wright in Peterborough Court. On Wright's death, in March 1797, he undertook the editorship of the Whitehall Evening Post; with the decline of that journal he was appointed to the management, and became part proprietor, of the General Evening Post; which also declined in circulation, and was ultimately merged in the St. James's Chronicle. From 1797 to 1814 he compiled from the newspapers and other periodicals an amusing annual volume entitled ‘The Spirit of the Public Journals,’ of which a new series, with illustrations by George Cruikshank, appeared in 1823–5. On the death of Isaac Reed, in 1807, he became editor of the European Magazine; a committed freemason, for some years he ran the Freemasons' Magazine. In the end he had little literary employment. He died in Upper King Street, now Southampton Row, Holborn, on 20 Dec. 1827. He married his first cousin, Christian, daughter of his uncle Griffith Jones. " - See Wikipedia . (Book ref. 37966)  £250.00

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