DAVIS, Z.A. The Freemason’s Monitor; Containing a Delineation of the Fundamental Principles of Freemasonry, Operative and Speculative, as wells as Religious as a Moral View. Philadelphia: R. Wilson Desilver, 1849. First edition, 8vo (190 x 113mm.) Engraved frontispiece, tissue-guards, 27 engraved plates. (Marginal spotting, light spotting, marginal damp-stain to third of text-block, illegible ink name to front-free endpaper.) Original brown cloth, freemasonry symbols in gilt to covers and spine (lightly bumped). – And a further five volumes related to freemasonry (including Walter Leslie Wilmshurst’s ‘The Meaning of Masonry’, 1923, 8vo, and William Henry White’s ‘Constitutions of the Ancient Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons’, 1847, 8vo, and Nos. 1-3 in ‘The Masonic Handbook Series’, by J.S.M. Ward, [1923-1924], 12mo) (6).