The Odd-fellows' text-book : an elucidation of the theory of Odd-Fellowship : embracing a detail of the system, in all its branches : with forms, ceremonies, and odes with music, for important occasions, and a manual of practice for the guidance of officers and lodges / by Paschal Donaldson ; With elegant illustrative engravings.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Donaldson, Paschal.

Contributor:

• Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Independent Order of Odd Fellows--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
• Secret societies--Rituals.
• Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885.

Genre:

• Handbooks and manuals.
• Advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

• Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)
• Kaplan, Deanne (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12, 286 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 15 unnumbered leaves of plates : portrait, illustrations, ; 20 cm

Edition:

Eighth thousand. - revised edition.

Manufacture:

[Stereotyped by C.C. Savage]

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Moss & Brother, 1852.

Contents:

Contents: The Odd Fellows' textbook : the history and tendency of Odd Fellowship - The organization of Odd Fellowship - A word to the neophyte - The subordinate lodge - The officers of a lodge - Attendance at the lodge - Behavior in the lodge - Behavior out of the lodge - Duty of one member toward another - Charity should distinguish Odd Fellows - The proposal of candidates - Discipline of Odd Fellowship - Principles of Odd Fellowship - Opening and closing a lodge - Degrees and degree lodges - Subordinate encampments - State Grand Lodges and Grand Encampments - The Grand Lodge of the United States - Organization of lodges, etc., and installation of officers - An Odd Fellows' counselin nine chapters - Secrecy - General regulations of the order. The Degree of Rebekeh - Addressed to the ladies To the uninitiated - Odd Fellowship and patriotism - Odd Fellowship and religion - An address for the use of Odd-Fellows - Condition of the order in 1850 - Odes for several important occasions -A manual of practice for the guidance of presiding officers, members of lodges, etc. - Officers and members of the Grand Lodge of the United States

Notes:

• Recommendations and publisher's advertisements: First fourteen pages, and last [2] p. These include a biographical sketch and portrait of Schuyler Colfax, by Illman & Sons. T.p. is p. [3], second count.
• Plate [3] is a chromolithograph.
• Edition statement at head of title.

Local Notes:

• Kaplan Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan.
• Kaplan Collection copy has chromolithograph membership certificate.
• Kaplan Collection copy collectify accession no. 2006.12.26.00782

OCLC:

30554238