Hard cover book. Bacon is Shakespeare Author: Sir Edwin Durning Lawrence Author: Francis Bacon Author: William Shakespeare Editor: Francis Bridges Bickley Publisher: Gay & Hancock Ltd Date: 1910 Further Information: Red Cloth hardcover with lettering to spine in gilt. The brown spine has a Library label with an inscription.non-fictionThe book argues that the plays attributed to Shakespeare were really written by Francis Bacon, because their breadth of knowledge could not belong to an uneducated man from Stratford-upon-Avon. The chapters cover the Stratford monument, bust and portrait, and the so-called ‘signatures’. The work’s best-known argument is that the long word Honorificabilitudinitatibus in Love’s Labour’s Lost is an anagram of a Latin sentence naming Bacon’s ‘offspring’. The book also claims that the Droeshout engraving of Shakespeare is a cryptographic picture. The second half is a reprint of Bacon’s Promus of Formularies and Elegancies, a notebook of phrases that Baconians treat as a source of parallels with the plays. The Promus is a set of Bacon’s private notes from around 1594.shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, warrnambool, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, book, pattison collection, warrnambool library, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, ralph eric pattison, corangamite regional library service, warrnambool city librarian, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library, bacon is shakespeare, sir edwin durning-lawrence, francis bacon, francis bridges bickley, william shakespeare, gay & hancock ltd