Francis Bacon and his secret society. An attempt to collect and unite the lost links of a long and strong chain
Mrs. Henry Pott's 1891 argument, published in Chicago by F. J. Schulte, that Francis Bacon led a secret society behind the Shakespeare plays, addressed to readers of Baconian, Masonic and Rosicrucian literature. The plates are numbered sheets of traced papermakers' watermarks — single-line outlines of jugs, ewers and footed vases topped with crescents and beaded flower sprays, many lettered with initials — usable as flat pictograms, monogram frames, ornament motifs or line-art repeat patterns.
