Some Acrostic Signatures of Francis Bacon

by William Stone Booth

$50 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1909. 4to, 631 pp. Original red ribbed cloth, titled in gilt. Head and foot of backstrip a little worn, extremities rubbed, hinges slightly cracked but sound, internally clean. Very good. § An in-depth study of acrostics located in printed works of the sixteenth century, intended to prove that Francis Bacon was the real author of the plays attributed to Shakespeare. Item #123059

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