GRANT, H. B. "Tactics and Manual for Knights Templars" [Pettibone Bros, 1902]

GRANT, H. B. Tactics and Manual for Knights Templars: Sword and Bugle Signals; Rules for Camps and Competitive Drills; Military Orders and Correspondence; Ceremonies and Hints for Knightly Courtesies; Also the Commandery Working Text, the Burial and Religious Services, Consecration of Banners, Grand Encampment Ceremonies, Etc.

Cincinnati, Ohio: The Pettibone Bros. Mfg. Co., 1902. Thirteenth Edition, revised, enlarged, and illustrated, with appendix containing U.S. drill regulations. 5.75" x 4", original black cloth gilt with Knights Templar device to front board and titling to spine. Illustrated throughout with instructional figures demonstrating sword positions, parade rest, carry, salute, and other ceremonial movements. Contemporary Pettibone Bros. “Southern Manager” stamp to front endpaper with ownership inscription of R. J. Hyall, Carrollton, Georgia. Light rubbing and minor wear to extremities, gilt still bright, binding sound and internally clean with only light age toning. A sharp, attractive copy. Very Good.

A practical field manual for the uniformed commanderies of the Masonic Knights Templar, covering sword drill, bugle signals, competitive camp drills, military correspondence, funeral and burial services, religious observances, banner consecrations, and Grand Encampment ceremonials. Published by Pettibone, one of the major American manufacturers of Masonic regalia, ceremonial swords, and lodge supplies, the volume functioned both as a ritual handbook and as the operational standard for late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century commandery drill and public pageantry.