SUBTLE SHINING SECRECIES writ in the margents of books generally ascribed to William Shakespeare, the actor and here ascribed to William Shakespeare, the poet.
Pp. xii+202, printed in red & black, frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, facsimiles, decorative initials, marbled endpapers, errata slip tipped-in at end, notes, index; cloth backed grey/green papered boards with printed paper title labels on spine and upper board, the spine slightly soiled; t.e.g., others uncut and occasionally partly unopened; within light brown card slipcase, lightly soiled, edges worn; Walter H. Baker Company, Boston, 1925. First edition, limitation unspecified, numbered and signed by the author. The frontispiece portrait is of Francis Bacon. The author argues that although there was indeed an Elizabethan actor of that name, 'the name of the poet, William Shakespeare, was a pen name and that the man who used it was Francis Bacon' [p. 279]. Item #148298
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