Essential Sources
Essential Sources for Masonic Research
Constitutions
1723 1st ed Anderson http://books.google.com/books?id=LkICAAAAQAAJ
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/history/anderson/ (Charges & Regulations)
http://books.google.ca/books?id=JStcSI7udk8C (1855 NY Reprint)
(1734 Franklin Reprint text)
1738 2nd ed Anderson http://books.google.com/books?id=IXRxZE-4JXsC&dq
1756 3rd ed Entick http://books.google.com/books?id=SbavagLj33UC
1767 4th ed Entick http://books.google.com/books?id=rwgIAAAAQAAJ
1784 5th ed Noorthouck http://books.google.com/books?id=QmzqsGE55esC
1815/1819 6/7th ed UGLE http://www.freemason.com/library/cafam01.htm (not facsimile)
1815/1819 6/7th ed UGLE (1823 Kingston, Canada) CIHM 92750 Robarts Library microform
1827 8th ed UGLE http://books.google.ca/books?id=GOJeyAeY2XoC
1841 9th ed UGLE http://books.google.ca/books?id=HCGatpEQ4HQC
1847 10th ed UGLE http://books.google.ca/books?id=tvYDAAAAQAAJ
1853 11th ed UGLE http://books.google.ca/books?id=CIcBAAAAQAAJ
1861 14th ed UGLE http://books.google.ca/books?id=AGRHAAAAYAAJ
1884 19th ed UGLE http://books.google.ca/books?id=_AwiAAAAMAAJ
1960 30th ed UGLE http://www.scribd.com/doc/32429992/United-Grand-Lodge-of-England-Constitutions-1960
Editions: 1-5 Premier Grand Lodge: 1723 1756 1767 1784
UGLE: 6-20: 1815 1819 1827 1841 1847 1853 1855 1858 1861 1863 1867 1871 1873 1884 1896
UGLE: 21-37: 1901 1911 1917 1919 1922 1926 1940 1947 1955 1960 1965 1970 1979 1984 1989 1995 1999
UGLE: 38-45: 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2012
Current texts UGLE http://www.ugle.org.uk/about-ugle/book-of-constitutions/
Ancient Grand Lodge: Ahiman Rezon: 8 edns: 1756 1764 1778 1787 1800 1801 1807 1813
1756 1st ed http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/Ahiman_Rezon.html
1764 2nd ed http://books.google.ca/books?id=m-dAAAAAcAAJ
1778 3rd ed http://books.google.ca/books?id=iDIiAAAAMAAJ (1805 NY Reprint)
1787 4th ed
1800 5th ed
1801 6th ed
1803 7th ed http://books.google.ca/books?id=_k0BAAAAQAAJ (1803 Belfast)
1813 8th ed http://books.google.ca/books?id=-TEiAAAAMAAJ
Ontario
1856 GLC http://www.archive.org/details/grandlodge1857onta (First post-UGLE Constitution)
1864 GLC http://archive.org/details/cihm_50664 (2nd Ed.?)
1881 GLC http://archive.org/stream/cihm_03247
Known Editions: (1855 UGLE Mutatis Mutandis (not!), [legally, UGLE-1853, actually UGLE-1827])
1856 ... 1864 ... 1872 ... 1875-Resolutions+Rulings .. 1881 ... 1883-Resolutions+Rulings .. GLCPO 1899 ...
1909 ... 1938 ... 1941 ... 1943 ... 1946 ... 1952 ... 1958 1959 ...1962 ... 1966 .. 1977 .. 1998
2001 2004 2005 2006 ... 2011
GLC(PO) Proceedings http://www.archive.org/details/grandlodge
GLNL Constitution (copied from GLCPO) http://www.glnl.ca/fmsystem/filestore/Grand%20Lodge%20Documents/Constitution%20Revised%20Oct%202009.pdf
William Preston: Illustrations of Masonry
1772 1st ed http://archive.org/details/cu31924030274868 ESTC reel 250 no. 06
1775 2nd ed http://books.google.ca/books?id=XYOuURhpQpoC
1781 3rd ed ESTC reel 2434, no.09 Robarts Library microfilm
1788 7th ed http://books.google.ca/books?id=JiV9FDRueb4C
1788 7th ed http://books.google.ca/books?id=JiV9FDRueb4C
1796 9th ed http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/ritual/preston.pdf (no page nos)
1796 9th ed http://books.google.ca/books?id=XggzI1QUus4C
1796 9th ed ESTC reel 8196, no. 03 Robarts Library microfilm
1804 11th ed http://books.google.ca/books?id=lYL1XSCCkNsC Kessinger partial
1812 12th ed http://www.ronigo.com/library/Preston,%20William%20-%20Illustrations%20of%20Masonry%20%5Bpdf%5D.pdf
1812 12th ed http://freemasons-freemasonry.com/preston_illustrations_masonry.html
1772-1812 DVD by Andrew Prescott HS 395 P74 2001 978-0-9541589-0-3 Brock-Sankey
1829 14th ed Oliver http://books.google.ca/books?id=6n_xHtVd6PQC
U.S.A. (Preston-Webb)
1797 Webb ESTC reel 255 no. 19 Robarts Library microfilm
1808 Webb http://books.google.ca/books?id=Bi8iAAAAMAAJ
Manuscripts, Exposures, and Ceremony Texts
1390 Regius Ms. (Halliwell)
1420 Cooke Ms.
1560 Landsdowne Ms.
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1666 Aitcheson-Haven Ms.
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1686 Antiquity Ms.
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1730 Masonry Dissected
1738 The Freemason's Pocket Companion
1760 Three Distinct Knocks
1762 Jachin and Boaz
1825 Carlisle's Manual