Book/Printed Material Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, together with some others, all of which are now for the first time deciphered and published,
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Image 1 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, …- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 2 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, …- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 3 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, …- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 4 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … os ae- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 5 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … SOME ACROSTIC SIGNATURES OF FRANCIS BACON- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 6 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … PROLOGUE The greatness of the prize induced Cidipus to accept the condition and make the trial who presenting himself full of confidence and alacrity before the Sphinx and being asked what kind…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 7 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … SOME ACROSTIC SIGNATURES OF FRANCIS BACON BARON VERULAM OF VERULAM VISCOUNT ST ALBAN TOGETHER WITH SOME OTHERS ALL OF WHICH ARE NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME DECIPHERED AND PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM STONE…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 8 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … COPYRIGHT 1909 BY WILLIAM STONE BOOTH ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ENTERED AT STATIONERS HALL Published May 1909 LIBRARY of CONGRESS Two Copies Received Copynunt Mh- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 9 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … TO MY WIFE WHOSE CONFIDENCE AND SYMPATHY ENABLED ME TO COMPLETE THIS BOOK- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 10 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … i i i t s hs i t 1 D 7 toe i Re i rs h- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 11 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … PREFACE Iv is ungracious to destroy a pleasing illusion and this book is not written with that purpose It is written solely in the interest of Science in this case the Science…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 12 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … Vili PREFACE met dans les faits quil étudie dans les conclusions quil tire la plus petite dissimulation laltération la plus légére nest pas digne davoir sa place dans le grand laboratoire ot…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 13 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … PREFACE ix The main conclusion we reach after examining many first known editions of works of obscure authorship is that it is unsafe to base our scholarship on any mans inferences or…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 14 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, …- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 15 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … Il Ill IV Wale VII VIII IX CONTENTS PART I INTRODUCTORY AND EXPLANATORY ATWTHEW OUTSET 7 3 sme MIS We es se ee tes wy fee al RHE WSERSHORNOLPHERS 0 ven subi…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 16 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … xil XI XII XIII XIV CONTENTS Some PoEMS WHICH HAVE APPEARED UNDER THE NAME OF EDMUND SPENSER AND SOME PROSE WHICH HAS BEEN ATTRIBUTED TO IDWARD HKIRKE i ae ee cue 1c…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 17 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … PART I INTRODUCTORY AND EXPLANATORY- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 18 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, …- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 19 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … SOME ACROSTIC SIGNATURES OF FRANCIS BACON CHAPTER I AT THE OUTSET In printing this book I wish to present as concisely as I can some acrostics which have come to my notice…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 20 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … 2 SOME ACROSTIC SIGNATURES OF The discovery of these acrostics was the result of study in the cryptography of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries that is to say in the cipher…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 21 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … FRANCIS BACON 3 find his name in cipher in the forged note which Maria let fall in his path Most readers of Volpone have noticed the acrostic which Ben Jonson ran down…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 22 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … 4 SOME ACROSTIC SIGNATURES OF Both which results falling out upon the very first marshalling of the letters without any darkness or difficulty and so sensibly and well appropriate to her Majestys…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 23 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … FRANCIS BACON 5 poems of Homer Ovid Virgil Catullus and other notable writers of former ages which were not of any gravity or seriousness and many of them full of impudicity and…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 24 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … 6 SOME ACROSTIC SIGNATURES OF CHAPTER II THE USERS OF CIPHERS As the study of ciphers in their relation to the literature of their day has hitherto been allowed by scholars to…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 25 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … FRANCIS BACON 7 false message in one direction and a true one in another Messen gers were waylaid and sometimes left for dead and Wotton himself halfhumorously excuses himself for keeping in…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 26 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … 8 SOME ACROSTIC SIGNATURES OF A few years later Wotton was taken into the service of Essex at this time however he was corresponding with Lord Zouche He was killing two birds…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 27 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … FRANCIS BACON 9 over roads illprotected and often dangerous Letters were also often carriedand passed on from one merchant to another to their destination much as they are today in the outoftheway…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 28 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … 10 SOME ACROSTIC SIGNATURES OF Secret commerce no longer disturbs a civilised government but in those days it is easy to see how readily suspicion might fall on a plain citizen who…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 29 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … FRANCIS BACON sa Catholicism Being the son of the Archbishop of York and having powerful friends he received light punishment The Marquis was Buckingham I shall have occasion to put the alphabet…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 30 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … 12 SOME ACROSTIC SIGNATURES OF Estate are but of mean rank and scarcely regarded so these arts being here placed with the principle and supreme sciences seem petty things yet to such…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 31 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … FRANCIS BACON 13 Bacon closes his remarks on ciphers in the De Augmentis with several sentences on the art of deciphering one of which is of im portance to us here He…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 32 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … 14 SOME ACROSTIC SIGNATURES OF CHAPTER III ANONYMITY AND PSEUDONYMITY THE custom of unmistakably declaring ones self the author of literary works has become general only in very recent times One might…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 33 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … FRANCIS BACON 15 structurally in such a way that his authorship could never be denied or forgotten was in the power of his scribes and often became anonymous despite himself for even…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 34 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … 16 SOME ACROSTIC SIGNATURES OF what their minds had created In this regard they do not differ from the painters the architects and other artists of their time Anonymity is therefore either…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 35 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … FRANCIS BACON ie disguise a trap for unwary biographers For the anonymous writer himself it is a means not always successful of laying perpetual claim to the authorship of a given work…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 36 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … 18 SOME ACROSTIC SIGNATURES OF ture might incur I cite examples later on to illustrate such cases If now a name upon a titlepage has long been regarded as the genuine legal…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 37 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … FRANCIS BACON 19 pected signature to be genuine and not a pseudonym until all the known evidences have been scrupulously examined and found to support such a contention beyond all reasonable doubt…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 38 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … 20 SOME ACROSTIC SIGNATURES OF will be a spur to some patient scholar to reveal to us some acrostics which may now lie hidden in a simple transliteration Tables for his guidance…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 39 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … FRANCIS BACON 21 in the secret when in 1614 he printed an enigmatical sonnet to Shakespeare beginning with these lines Shakespeare that nimble Mercury thy brain Lulls many hundred Arguseyes asleep We…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 40 of Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, … 22 SOME ACROSTIC SIGNATURES OF to it that the initial letter of the first word of the first line is an F and that the corresponding letter at the bottom of the…- Contributor: Booth, William Stone - George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
About this Item
Title
- Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon, bacon Verulam of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, together with some others, all of which are now for the first time deciphered and published,
Names
- Booth, William Stone, 1864-1926.
- George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company, 1909.
Headings
- - Bacon, Francis,--1561-1626--Cipher
- - Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Authorship
Notes
- - Also available in digital form.
- - LAC ael 2019-12-04 update (1 card)
Medium
- 631 p. illus. 29 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- PR2944 .B7
- PR2944 .B7 1909b Another issue. "One hundred and fifty copies of this first edition have been printed and bound wholly uncut with paper label"--Verso of t.p. Fabyan item no. 178.
Library of Congress Control Number
- 09011139
OCLC Number
- 520420
Online Format
- online text
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