Containing an Elaborate Account of the Rise and Progress of Freemasonry, and its Kindred Associations, Ancient and Modern. Also, definitions of the technical terms used by the Fraternity. Illustrated with 300 Engravings. The present volume is intended to remedy many of the defects and omissions of its predecessors, and to exhibit, in a form of easy reference, the latest developments and progress of the institution, and the results of more recent investigations. It contains a comprehensive explication of the whole system of Freemasonry, and of kindred or similar associations-ancient and modern-being a careful condensation of all that has ever been written on the subject; intelligible to the Fraternity, and mysterious to the profane. Essential and Scarce.