Rituals of freemasonry: comprising the degrees of Entered apprentice, Fellow craft, and Master mason, in the lodge;
A Masonic ritual manual published in New York in 1870 by the Masonic Publishing Company, compiled by Daniel Sickels, James L. Gould, John W. Sheville and John Simons, for members of Freemasonry lodges learning the three degrees. Its engravings show ceremonial scenes and lodge furnishings in a plain nineteenth-century woodcut style, with oval vignettes, kneeling candidates, robed officers, an open book on an altar and tall candlesticks, offering a designer ready motifs of ritual theatre, ornamental borders and symbolic compass-and-square emblems.
