The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-Called Shakespeare Plays

by Ignatius Donnelly

$350 · Offered by Back Creek Books

First edition

Chicago: R. S. Peale & Company, 1888. First Edition. Black and white illustrations. Cloth hardcovers. Tall octavos. i-iv , v-ix, x-xii , 502 and i-ii , 503-504 , 505-998 pages. An elaborate and eccentric argument that Francis Bacon was the actual author of the plays attributed to William Shakespeare. Donnelly claimed that Bacon had embedded a

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