Léo Taxil / Méjanel & Pannemaker - Les mystères de la franc-maçonnerie - 1886

Fascinating illustrated edition of this work by Jogand-Pagès, alias Léo Taxil -

It contains numerous interesting documents on Freemasonry (descriptions of all Masonic degrees from the 1st to the 33rd, Forest Freemasonry or Carbonarism, female Freemasons, various rites and ceremonies, etc.) -

Gabriel Jogand-Pagès, known as Léo Taxil, was an anti-clerical writer and activist, author of a famous hoax based on his supposed conversion and the denunciation of Freemasonry’s “Satanism” -

Although the author did not hesitate to fabricate evidence for his fanciful claims, The Mysteries of Freemasonry also draws on serious documentation about certain Masonic rites and rituals -

As such, the work is both a historical account of a famous hoax and an important document on Freemasonry in the late 19th century -

Léo Taxil / Méjanel & Pannemaker - The Mysteries of Freemasonry - 1886 -
804 pages.

The binding is in good condition; the book has its original half-leather binding with marbled boards, signs of wear, a few minor defects to the cover (including areas of missing paper on the boards), worn headcaps and joints, bumped corners, red edges, and a plain, smooth spine -

The interior is in good condition; the paper is slightly browned. The book is enriched with numerous in-text and full-page drawings by Méjanel and engravings by Pannemaker. The text is generally clean, the endpapers are in fair condition, and it is a pleasing copy -

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