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This volume is a scholarly work by Elizabeth Wells Gallup that sets out her exhaustive research into the “bi‑literal cipher” she claims Francis Bacon embedded in his own writings and in the works of his contemporaries. The book opens with a detailed inventory of the material she has deciphered, ranging from early editions of the Shepherd’s Calendar (1579) through a series of Elizabethan prose and drama, to the Shakespeare folios of the early 1600s, accompanied by facsimile plates, explanatory notes, and a personal preface in which Gallup describes the painstaking process of distinguishing two types of italic letters in the original prints. The introductory sections also recount her trips to the British Museum, the collaboration with Dr. Orville W. Owen, and the broader implications she draws for the authorship of Shakespeare, Spenser, Peele, Greene and Marlowe.
Written in a formal, nineteenth‑century academic style, the text combines meticulous description with a persuasive, almost polemical voice. It will appeal to readers fascinated by Baconian theory, Elizabethan literary history, and the history of cryptography, particularly scholars, bibliophiles, and those who enjoy dense, evidence‑driven arguments about the hidden dimensions of early modern texts.
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This edition embraces decipherings from the commencement of the use of Bacon’s Cipher inventions--now found to be 1579--and covering the entire period of his literary career, including some works published by Rawley subsequent to 1626. The Cypher has been traced with certainty down to 1651.
This Bi-literal Cypher reveals much secret history concerning Queen Elizabeth, who, it is now learned, was the wedded wife of Robert, Earl of Leicester--while posing as the Virgin Queen--and was the mother of Francis Bacon.
It also discloses the existence of a second so-called Key-Word Cipher, of broader scope, running through all of Bacon’s literary works, with instructions by which they may be deciphered to disclose other hidden dramatical and historical productions of larger importance and greater historical accuracy than those upon the printed pages which enfold them. These are found also to contain secret history, dangerous to Bacon, who sought by this means to transmit it to a future time in which he hoped the Ciphers would be discovered and the truth proclaimed.
The method of the Word Cipher is shown in the deciphered Tragedy of Anne Boleyn, published simultaneously with this Third Edition,--also in the Tragedy of Robert, Earl of Essex,--and the Tragedy of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Contains extracts from the Bi-literal, with Bacon’s instructions and the Keys by which this Tragedy has been extracted fully illustrating the Word Cipher method of its reconstruction.
An appendix gives the editions used and pages on which may be found the scattered sections brought together in new sequence to form the new play.
Included in Part I will also be found the decipherings made by Mrs. Gallup in the British Museum subsequent to the publication of the Second Edition of the Bi-literal Cypher, and are from Old Editions appearing between 1579 and 1590, establishing the earliest dates this Cypher appeared. They are placed here for the convenience of these having Second Editions only.
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