"IN presenting the following work of COUSTOS'S Sufferings to the public, it may be remarked that few publications have received so extensive a patronage from the fraternity as the present, and none held in more estimation, as is fully evinced by the respectable list of subscribers annexed to the English copy, prefaced with a dedication to his Royal Highness the duke of Cumberland, the then Grand Master. This proving the character and merit of the narrative, has induced the publisher to presume it will be equally acceptable to the craft on this side the Atlantic, particularly as masonry flourishes in this country in a manner hitherto unequalled in the history of cur noble order. A work of this nature well authenticated must be considered as a valuable tractwhich for the honour of humanity it is firmly hoped, the like scenes will again be never repeated."
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.