📚 Freemasonry

The operative and speculative craft: lodges, ritual, and the order’s long entanglement with enlightenment politics.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject freemasonry in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The builders	Joseph Fort Newton	1914	13
	Darkness visible	Walton Hannah	1952	13
	Secret Societies and Subversive Movements	Nesta H. Webster	1972	13
	The Freemason's monitor, or, Illustrations of Masonry	Thomas Smith Webb	1797	12
	Morals and dogma of the Ancient and accepted Scottish rite of freemasonry	Albert Pike	1881	11
	Freemasons for dummies	Christopher Hodapp	2005	11
	Illustrations of masonry	Preston, William	1772	10
	Proofs of a conspiracy against all the religions and governments of Europe	John Robison	1797	10
	The signs and symbols of primordial man	Albert Churchward	1910	10
	Masonry dissected	Samuel Prichard	1730	9
	Compiled law of the Grand lodge of Free and accepted masons of the state of Michigan	Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Michigan	1886	9
	Born in blood	John J. Robinson	1989	9
	Jachin and Boaz	R. S.	1763	8
	Washington and his masonic compeers	Sidney Hayden	1866	8
	The history of freemasonry	Robert Freke Gould	1882	8
	Francis Bacon and his secret society	Pott, Henry Mrs.	1891	8
	Secret societies and subversive movements	Nesta Helen Webster	1924	8
	The Text Book Of Cryptic Masonry	Jackson H. Chase	1870	7
	Sacred mysteries among the Mayas and the Quiches, 11,500 years ago	Augustus Le Plongeon	1886	7
	Ronayne's Handbook of Freemasonry	Edmond Ronayne	1917	7
	Freemasons' guide and compendium	Bernard E. Jones	1950	7
	Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor	Malcolm C. Duncan	1976	7
	The origins of Freemasonry	Stevenson, David Ph. D.	1988	7
	The Hiram key	Knight, Christopher	1996	6
	The Hiram Key	Christopher Knight	1997	6
	A lexicon of freemasonry	Albert Gallatin Mackey	1852	5
	The symbolism of Freemasonry	Albert Gallatin Mackey	1869	5
	The ritual of the Operative free masons	Thomas Carr	1911	5
	Christian by degrees	Walton Hannah	1954	5
	The secret teachings of all ages	Manly Palmer Hall	1975	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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