SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Works by Francis Bacon, publ. 1597-1626
[See 'Dates of Francis Bacon's Works' for all writings, incl. plays]

Bacon, Francis, Apologie concerning the late Earl of Essex (London, 1604).
Bacon, Francis, Apothegms New and Old (London, 1625).
Bacon, Francis, Charge…touching Duels (London, 1614).
Bacon, Francis, De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum, 9 Books (London, 1623).
Bacon, Francis, Declaration of the Practices and Treasons attempted and Committed by the late Earl of Essex (London, 1601).
Bacon, Francis, Essayes. Religious Meditations, Places of persuasion and disswasion (The Colours of Good and Evil) (1st edition - 10 essays)( London, 1597/8).
Bacon, Francis, Essays (2nd edition - 38 essays)( London, 1612).
Bacon, Francis, Essays, or Counsels Civil and Moral (3rd/final edition - 58 essays)(London, 1625).
Bacon, Francis, Historia Naturalis (Introduction to six Natural Histories)(London, 1622).
Bacon, Francis, Historia Ventorum (London, 1622).
Bacon, Francis, History of the Reign of King Henry VII (London, 1622).
Bacon, Francis, Novum Organum Scientiarum, 2 Books (London, 1620).
Bacon, Francis, Sylva Sylvarum and New Atlantis (London, 1626).
Bacon, Francis, The Advancement and Proficience of Learning, 2 Books (London, 1605).
Bacon, Francis, Translation of Certain Psalms into English Verse (London, 1625).

Works by Francis Bacon, publ. 1626-1734
[See 'Dates of Francis Bacon's Works' for further titles]

Bacon, Francis, Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning, interpreted by Gilbert Wats, containing, 'Testimonies Consecrate to the Merite of the Incomparable Philosopher Sir Francis Bacon by some of the best learned of this instant age' (transl. of De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum)(Oxford, 1640).

Collections of Works by Francis Bacon, publ. 1626-1734
[See 'Dates of Francis Bacon's Works' for contents]

Baconiana, or, Certain genuine remains of Sr. Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, and Viscount of St. Albans in arguments civil and moral, natural, medical, theological, and bibliographical, ed. Archbishop Thomas Tenison. (London: J. D. for Richard Chiswell, 1679).
Certain Miscellany Works, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629).
Letters and Remains (1734).
Opera Omnia (1665).
Operum Moralium et Civilium, ed. William Rawley (London, 1638).
Opuscula Varia Posthuma, Philosophica, Civilia et Theologia, ed. William Rawley (London, 1658, 1663).
Rescuscitatio, Part 1, ed. William Rawley (London, 1657).
Rescuscitatio, Part 2, ed. William Rawley (London, 1670).
Scripta in Naturali et Universali Philosophia, ed. Isaac Gruter (1653).
The Mirror of State and Eloquence (republ. of Remains, 1656).
The Remains of the right honorable Francis Lord Verulam (1648).

Later Editions of Works by Francis Bacon

Bacon, Francis, Promus (1861).
Case, T., ed., The Advancement Of Learning and New Atlantis (1906).
Fowler, Thomas, ed., Novum Organum, ed. (Clarendon Press, 1878).
Grosart, A. B., ed., The Poems of Francis Bacon (1870), publ. in Vol. I of Fuller's Worthies Miscellany.
Johnston, Arthur, ed., The Advancement of Learning and New Atlantis (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1974).
Kitchen, Rev. G. W., ed. & transl., Novum Organum; or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature (orig. publ. in Latin, 1620)(Oxford University Press, 1855).
Kitchin, G. W., ed., The Advancement of Learning (London, J.M.Dent & Sons, 1861).
Pitcher, John, ed., The Essays, with an introduction and an appendix containing a selection from The Wisdom of the Ancients (Penguin Books, 1985).
Pott, Mrs. Henry, ed., The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies - Francis Bacon, c.1594-5 (London, Robert Banks, 1883).

Later Collections of Works by Francis Bacon

Burgoyne, Frank J., ed., 'The Northumberland Manuscript'. Collotype Facsimile and Type Transcript of an Elizabethan Manuscript preserved at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland (Longmans, Green and Co, 1904).
Dick, Hugh G, ed., Selected Writings of Francis Bacon (New York, Random House, 1955).
Gibson, R. W., ed., Francis Bacon: A Bibliography of his Works and Baconiana 1597-1750 (Oxford, Scrivener Press, 1950).
Mallet, D., ed., The Works of Francis Bacon, 4 vols (1740).
Montague, Basil, ed., Life and Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, 3 vols (Philadelphia, Carey & Hart, 1848).
Montague, Basil, ed., The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, 16 vols (1825-36).
Pitcher, John, ed., Francis Bacon: The Essays (Middx., Penguin Books, 1985).
Spedding, J., and R. L. Ellis and D. D. Heath, eds., The Works of Francis Bacon, 7 vols (1857-9): Vols I-II, the Philosophical Works in Latin; IV-V, English translations of them; VI-VIII, Literary and Professional Works.
Spedding, James, ed., The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon, 7 vols (London, Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, 1862). These 7 vols are usually numbered as Vols VIII-XIV as a supplement to The Works of Francis Bacon.

Works by William Shakespeare, publ. 1593-1623
[Quarto editions of the plays not listed]

Shakespeare, William, Venus and Adonis (London, Edward Blount & Isaac Jaggard, 1593).
Shakespeare, William, Lucrece (London, Edward Blount & Isaac Jaggard, 1594).
Shakespeare, William, The Phoenix and Turtle (publ. in Love's Martyr, 1601).
Shakespeare, William, Shake-speares Sonnets (London, Edward Blount & Isaac Jaggard, 1609).
Shakespeare, William, Comedies, Histories and Tragedies (London, Edward Blount & Isaac Jaggard, 1623).

Collections of Works by William Shakespeare

Arden Series, ed., The Works of William Shakespeare (individual plays and editions).
Blayney, Peter W. M., The First Folio of Shakespeare (Folger Library Publ., 1991).
Brooke, Nicholas, ed., Shakespeare - Richard II (London, McMillan Education Ltd., 1973).
Dowden, Edward, ed., Shakspere's Sonnets (London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1881).
Evans, G. Blakemore, ed., The Sonnets (Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Greenblatt, Stephen, & Walter Cohen, Jean Howard, Katherine Maus, eds., The Norton Shakespeare (W. W. Norton, 1997), based on the Oxford edition.
Johnson, Edward D., ed., Shake-spears Sonnets (London, The Francis Bacon Society, 1962).
Prince, F. T., ed., The Poems (The Arden Shakespeare, 3rd edition, Methuen & Co., 1960, 1969).
Proudfoot, Richard, with Ann Thompson & David Scott Kastan, eds., The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works (Surrey, Thomas Nelson, 1998).
Rowe, Nicholas, ed., Works of Shakespeare (1709).
Wells, Stanley, & Gary Taylor, eds., The Complete Works (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1986).

Other Collections

Arber, Edward, ed., Travels & Works of Captain John Smith, 2 vols (John Grant, 1910)
Bell, Robert, ed., Poems of Greene, Marlow and Ben Jonson (George Bell & Sons, 1878).
Cox, Jane, Shakespeare in the Public Records (HMSO, 1985).
Cunningham, Francis, ed., The Works of Christopher Marlow (London, Chatto & Windus, 1884).
Ficino, Marsilio, Meditations on the Soul: Selected Letters of Marsilio Ficino, transl. by members of the Language Dept. of the School of Economic Science, London (Vermont, Inner Traditions International, 1996).
Ficino, Marsilio, The Letters of Marsilio Ficino, transl. by members of the Language Dept. of the School of Economic Science, London (London, Shepheard-Walwyn, 1975, 1988).
Lambert, D. H., ed., Shakespeare Documents (London, George Bell and Sons, 1904).
Lambeth Palace Library, Index to the Papers of Anthony Bacon (1558-1601) in Lambeth Palace Library (London, 1974).
Leishman, J. B., ed., The Three Parnassus Plays, 1598-1601 (1949).
Mead, G. R. S., ed., Thrice Greatest Hermes, 3 vols (Detroit, Hermes Press).
Morris, R., ed., Complete Works of Edmund Spenser, Globe Edition (London, Macmillan & Co., 1879).
Scott, Walter, ed., Hermetica: the writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus (UK, Solos Press, 1992).
Sydney, Sir Philip, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, edited and with an introduction and notes by Maurice Evans (Penguin Books, 1977).
Thomas, David, Shakespeare in the Public Records (Public Record Office, Crown Copyright, 1985).

Concordances, Dictionaries, Guides and Journals

Arber, Edward, ed., Travels & Works of Captain John Smith, 2 vols (John Grant, 1910)
Baconiana, The Journal of the Francis Bacon Society (periodical).
Bartlett, John, A Complete Concordance to Shakespeare (London, Macmillan Press, 1894, 1997).
Bayley, P. C., An ABC of Shakespeare, his Plays, Theatre, Life and Times (Longman York Press, 1985).
Boyce, Charles, The Wordsworth Dictionary of Shakespeare (Hertfordshire, Wordsworth Reference, 1996).
Carr, Thomas Swinburn, A New Classical Lexicon of Biography, Mythology and Geography (London, Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1858).
Cooper, J. C., An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols (London, Thames & Hudson, 1978).
Cowden-Clarke, The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare (Bickers & Son, 1881).
Davies, Adriana, A Dictionary of British Portraiture (London, B.T.Batsford, 1979).
Dictionary of National Biography.
Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Fox, Levi, The Shakespeare Handbook, The Essential Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Life and Times (London, The Bodley Head, 1987).
Gibson, R. W., Francis Bacon, A Bibliography of his Works and of Baconiana to the Year 1750 (Oxford, 1950).
Hall, James, Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art (London, Murray, 1974).
Hill, C. P., Who's Who in Stuart Britain (Gt. Britain, Shepheard-Walwyn, 1988).
Hogart, Ron. Charles, ed., Alchemy: A Comprehensive Bibliography of the Manly P. Hall Collection of Books and Manuscripts, including related material on Rosicrucianism and the writings of Jacob Boehme (Los Angeles, Philosophical Research Society, 1986).
Johnson, Hamish, & Peter Quenell, Who's Who in Shakespeare (London, Routledge, 1995).
Larousse Encyclopaedia of Modern History: from 1500 to the Present Day (Hamlyn, revised 1981).
Lempriere, J., Classical Dictionary (London, Bracken Books, 1984).
Lloyd Evans, Gareth & Barbara, Everyman's Companion to Shakespeare (Dent & Sons, 1978).
McDonald, Russ, The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare (Boston, Bedford Books, 1996).
McLean, Adam, ed., The Hermetic Journal (The Hermetic Research Trust).
Muir, Atlas of Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern History (London, George Philip, 1982).
Nares, Robert, Glossary in the Works of English Authors, 2 vols (John Russell Smith).
O'Connor, Evangeline M., Who's Who and What's What in Shakespeare (New York, Gramercy Books, 1978).
Palmer, Alan & Veronica, Who's Who in Shakespeare's England (Harvester Press, 1981).
Peltonen, Markku, The Cambridge Companion to Bacon (Cambridge, University Press, 1996).
Piper, David, ed., O Sweet Mr. Shakespeare I'll Have his Picture: The Changing Image of Shakespeare's Person, 1600-1800 (National Portrait Gallery, 1964).
Routh, C. R. N., Who's Who in Tudor England (London, Shepheard-Walwyn, 1990).
Schmidt, Shakespeare's Lexicon, 2 vols (Williams & Norgate, 1886).
Smith, William, Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology and Geography (London, Murray, 1886).
Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (London, Murray, 1884).
Spenser, Edmund, Complete Works of Edmund Spenser, Globe Edition, edited by R. Morris (London, Macmillan & Co., 1879).
Wells, Stanley, Shakespeare, An Illustrated Dictionary (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1985).

Other Primary Sources

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Alciat, Andrea, Emblemata (Petrus Rhosithinus, 1546).
Alciat, Andrea, Emblematum Libellus, Nuper in Lucen Editus (Venice, sons of Aldus Manutius, 1546).
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R .C. Manifesto, Confessio Fraternitatis, or The Confession of the Laudable Fraternity of the Most Honorable Order of the Rosy Cross, Written to All the Learned of Europe (1615). The English translation by Thomas Vaughan (1652) is given in Frances Yates' The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (London, Routledge, Kegan & Paul, 1972).
R. C. Manifesto, Fama Fraternitatis, or a Discovery of the Fraternity of the Most Noble Order of the Rosy Cross (1614). The earliest existing English translation is by Eugenius Philalethes (i.e. Thomas Vaughan), published in 1652. The English translation by Thomas Vaughan (1652) is given in Frances Yates' The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (London, Routledge, Kegan & Paul, 1972).
Rawley, William, Resuscitatio, or Bringing into Publick Light Severall Pieces of the Works, Civil, Historical, Philosophical & Theological, hitherto Sleeping, of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount Saint Alban, Containing 'The Life of the Honourable Author' (London, 1657).
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Shakespeare Authorship Question

Anonymous, The Story of Hamlet and Horatio (London; Selwyn & Blount, 1924).
Bayley, Harold, The Shakespeare Symphony (London: Chapman & Hall, 1906).
Bokenham, T. D., A Brief History of the Bacon-Shakespeare Controversy (FBRT, 1982).
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Cuningham, Granville C., Bacon's Secret Disclosed in Contemporary Books (London, Gay & Hancock, 1911).
Dawkins, Peter, The Shakespeare Enigma (Polair Publishing, 2004).
Durning-Lawrence, Sir Edwin, Bt., Bacon is Shakespeare, together with a reprint of Francis Bacon's Promus of Formularies and Elegancies (London, Gay & Hancock, 1910).
Eagle, Roderick L, The Secrets of the Shakespeare Sonnets, with facsimile of the original 1609 Shake-speares Sonnets (London, Mitre Press; The Francis Bacon Society, 1965).
Edwards, William H., Shaksper not Shakespeare (Robert Clarke & Co., 1900).
Gerstenberg, Joachim, Bacon-Shakespeare for Beginners (Greece, Kalamakion Press, 1970).
Greenwood, Sir George, Shakespeare's Signatures & Sir Thomas More (Cecil Palmer, 1924).
Greenwood, Sir George, The Shakespeare Problem Restated.
Hamilton, Charles, In Search of Shakespeare: A Study of the Poet's Life and Handwriting (London: Robert Hale, 1985).
Harman, Edward George, Edmund Spenser and the Impersonations of Francis Bacon (London, Constable & Co., 1914).
Holland, Captain Hubert H., Shakespeare through Oxford Glasses (London, Cecil Palmer, 1923).
Hookham, George, Will O' The Wisp or the Elusive Shakespeare (Basil Blackwell).
Johnson, Edward D., The Shakspere Illusion (London: The Mitre Press, 1947, 1965).
Lefranc, Abel, Under the Mask of William Shakespeare (Devon, Merlin Books, 1988).
Melsome, W. S., The Bacon-Shakespeare Anatomy (London: George Lapworth, 1945).
Michell, John, Who Wrote Shakespeare? (London, Thames & Hudson, 1996).
Ogburn, Charlton, The Mystery of William Shakespeare (London, Sphere Books Ltd., 1984).
Penzance, Lord, QC, The Bacon-Shakespeare Controversy: A Judicial Summing-Up (London: Sampson Low & Marston, 1902).
Phillips, Graham Keatman Martin, The Shakespeare Conspiracy (UK, Arrow Books, 1995).
Porohovshikov, Pierre S., Shakespeare Unmasked (London, Arco Publishers, 1955).
Pott, Mrs. Henry, Did Francis Bacon write 'Shakespeare'? (London, Robert Banks & Son).
Pott, Mrs. Henry, ed., The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies - Francis Bacon, c.1594-5 (London, Robert Banks, 1883).
Reed, Edwin, Bacon & Shakespeare Parallelisms (London, Gay & Bird, 1902).
Reed, Edwin, Bacon vs Shakspere (London: Service & Paton, 1899).
Reed, Edwin, Francis Bacon Our Shakespeare (Boston: Charles E Goodspeed, 1902).
Rendall, Gerald H., Shakspeare Sonnets and Edward de Vere (John Murray, 1930).
Theobald, Bertram G., Enter Francis Bacon (London: Cecil Palmer, 1932).
Theobald, Bertram G., Exit Shakspere (London: Cecil Palmer, 1931).
Theobald, Bertram G., Francis Bacon, Concealed and Revealed (London, Cecil Palmer, 1930).
Theobald, Robert M., Shakespeare Studies in Baconian Light (London: Sampson Low & Marston, 1901).
Twain, Mark, 1601 and Is Shakespeare Dead? (New York, Oxford University Press, 1966).
Twain, Mark, Is Shakespeare Dead? (New York and London, Harper & Brothers, 1909).
Vickers, Prof. Brian, Shakespeare, Co-Author (Oxford University Press, 2002).
Wigston, W. F. C., Bacon, Shakespeare and the Rosicrucians (London, George Redway, 1888).
Wigston, W. F. C., Francis Bacon versus Phantom Captain Shakespeare: the Rosicrucian Mask (London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1891).
Wigston, W. F. C., The Columbus of Literature (Kegan Paul, Trench Trebner & Co., 1891).
Wilde, Rt. Hon., Sir James Plaisted, A Judicial Summing Up: On the Bacon-Shakespeare Controversy (London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1902).
Woodward, Parker, Tudor Problems (London, Gay & Hancock, 1912).
Wraight, A. D., Shakespeare: New Evidence (London, Adam Hart, 1996).

Cipher

Booth, William Stone, Some Acrostic Signatures of Francis Bacon (London, Constable, 1909).
Bormann, Edwin, Francis Bacon's Cryptic Rhymes, and the Truth they reveal (London, Siegle, Hill & Co., 1906).
Clarke, Barry R., The Shakespeare Puzzle (www.lulu.com, 2006).
Donnelly, Ignatius, The Cypher in the Plays and on the Tombstone (Sampson Low Marston & Co., 1900).
Fellows, Virginia M., The Shakespeare Code (2000).
Friedman, William and Elizabeth, The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined (Cambridge University Press, 1957).
Gallup, Elizabeth Wells, The Bi-literal Cipher of Sir Francis Bacon, Parts I & II (Detroit, Howard Publ. Co., Detroit; London, Gay & Bird, 1901).
Gallup, Elizabeth Wells, The Bi-literal Cipher of Sir Francis Bacon, Part III; The Lost Manuscripts (Detroit, Howard Publ. Co.; London, Gay & Bird, 1910).
Gallup, Elizabeth Wells, The Bi-literal Cipher of Sir Francis Bacon: The Tragedy of Anne Boleyn (Detroit, Howard Publ.; London, Gay & Bird, 1901).
Gerstenberg, Joachim, Strange Signatures (London, Francis Bacon Soc., 1967).
Leary, Penn, The Cryptographic Shakespeare (Omaha: Westchester House, 1987).
Leary, Penn, The Second Cryptographic Shakespeare (Omaha: Westchester House, 1999).
Macduff, Ewen, The Dancing Horse Will Tell You (Shoreham, Eric Faulkner-Little, 1974).
Macduff, Ewen, The Sixty-Seventh Inquisition (Shoreham, Eric Faulkner-Little, 1972).
Owen, Orville W., Sir Francis Bacon's Cipher Story, Vol II & Vol. V, (Howard Publishing, 1901; London, Gay & Bird, 1894.)
Smith, L. D., Cryptography (George Allen & Unwin, 1944).
Woodward, Frank, Francis Bacon's Cipher Signatures (London: Grafton & Co, 1923).

Historical: Bacon

Baker, H. Kendra, The Persecution of Francis Bacon (Francis Bacon Society, 1978).
Begley, Rev. Walter, Bacon's Nova Resuscitatio, or The Unveiling of his Concealed Works and Travels. Vols I - III, (London, Gay & Bird, 1905).
Bevan, Bryan, The Real Francis Bacon (London: Centaur Press, 1960).
Bowen, Catherine Drinker, Francis Bacon: The Temper of the Man (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1963).
Bunten, A. Chambers, Life of Alice Barnham (Oliphants, 1928).
Church, R. W., The English Men of Letters - Spencer, Bacon (Macmillan & Co., 1880-4).
Cornwall, A.B., Francis the First (Birmingham, Cornish Brothers, 1936).
Cunningham, Wallace M., The Tragedy of Francis Bacon, Prince of England (Los Angeles, Philosophers Press, 1940).
Dawbarn, C.Y.C., Uncrowned. A Story of Queen Elizabeth and the Early Life of Francis'Bacon' (London, Longmans & Green, 1913).
Dawkins, Peter, Arcadia (Francis Bacon Research Trust, 1988).
Dawkins, Peter, Dedication to the Light (Francis Bacon Research Trust, 1984).
Dawkins, Peter, Herald of the New Age (The Francis Bacon Research Trust, 1997).
Dawkins, Peter, The Great Vision (Francis Bacon Research Trust, 1985).
Dawkins, Peter, The Shakespeare Enigma (Polair Publishing, 2004).
Dawkins, Peter, The Virgin Ideal (Francis Bacon Research Trust , 1982).
Dixon, William Hepworth, Personal History of Lord Bacon, from unpublished papers (London, John Murray, London, 1861).
Dixon, William Hepworth, The Story of Lord Bacon's Life (London, John Murray, 1862).
Dodd, Alfred, Francis Bacon's Personal Life Story, Vol. I, The Age of Elizabeth, Vol. II, The Age of James (London, Rider & Co., 1986).
Dodd, Alfred, Shakespeare's Secret Sonnet-Diary: Francis Bacon, Creator and Founder of Freemasonry, The Prince of Poets, revealed as the Son of Queen Elizabeth (Liverpool, Daily Post Printers, 9th edition, 1944).
Dodd, Alfred, The Secret History of Francis Bacon (London, Rider & Co., 1940).
Du Maurier, Daphne, Golden Lads (London: Victor Gollancz, 1975).
Du Maurier, Daphne, The Winding Stair (London: Victor Gollancz, 1975).
Epstein, Joel, A Political Biography (Ohio University Press, 1977).
Fowler, Thomas, Bacon (1881).
Fuller, Jean Overton, Sir Francis Bacon: A Biography (London: East-West Publications, 1981).
Gundry, W. G. C. (ed.), Manes Verulamiani (London: 1950).
Hollenbach, Karl F., Francis Rosicross (Kentucky: Dunsinane Hill Publications, 1996).
Jardine, Lisa, and Alan Stewart, Hostage to Fortune (London, Victor Gollancz, 1998).
Kunow, Amelia Deventer von, Francis Bacon, Last of the Tudors (New York, 1924).
Mathews, Nieves, Francis Bacon: The History of a Character Assassination (London: Yale University Press, 1996).
Maurier, Daphne du, Golden Lads: A Study of Anthony Bacon, Francis and their Friends (London, Victor Gollancz, 1975).
Maurier, Daphne du, The Winding Stair: Francis Bacon, his Rise and Fall (London, Victor Gollancz, 1976).
McCutcheon, Elizabeth, Sir Nicholas Bacon's Great House Sententiae (Claremont, Sir Francis Bacon Foundation, 1977).
Mudie, Alfred, The Self-Named William Shake-speare, the Prince of Wales (London, Cecil Palmer, 1929).
Nieves, Mathews, Francis Bacon: The History of a Character Assassination (New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 1996).
Nichol, John, Francis Bacon: His Life and Philosophy, 2 vols (1888-89).
Pott, Mrs. Henry, Francis Bacon and his Secret Society (London: Robert Banks & Son, 1911).
Roe, J. E., Francis Bacon's Own Story (The Dubois Press, 1918).
Ronald W. Clark, The Man Who Broke Purple (Weidenfeld & Nicolson).
Smedley, William T., The Mystery of Francis Bacon (San Francisco, John Howell, 1910; London, Robert Banks, 1912).
Spedding, James (ed.), The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon (London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, 1861).
Steeves, G. Walter, Francis Bacon: A Sketch of his Life, Works and Literary Friends, chiefly from a bibliographical point of view (London: Methuen, 1910).
Tittler, Robert, Nicholas Bacon: The Making of a Tudor Statesman (London, Jonathan Cape, 1976).
Treskunov, Joyce, Anthony Bacon and his Work, 1558-1601 (PhD thesis at Temple University, USA, 1980).
White, Sir W. H., Bacon, Gilbert, and Harvey (1927).
Williams, C., Bacon (1933).
Woodward, Parker, The Early Life of Lord Bacon (London, Gay & Bird, 1902).

Historical: Shakespeare

Alexander, Marguerite, An Introduction to Shakespeare & His Contemporaries (London, Pan Books Ltd., 1979).
Arlidge, Anthony, Shakespeare and the Prince of Love, the Feast of Misrule in the Middle Temple (London, Giles de la Mare Publishers Ltd., 2000).
Austin, Professor Warren B., A Computer-Aided Technique for Stylistic Discrimination: The Authorship of Greene's Groatsworth of Wit (Stephen F. Austin State College of Texas, 1969).
Bayley, P. C., An A.B.C. of Shakespeare, His Plays, Theatre, Life and Times (Essex, Longman Group, 1985).
Bearman, Robert, Shakespeare in the Stratford Records (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1994).
Boas, Frederick S., Shakspere and his predecessors (London, John Murray).
Brown, Ivor, & George Fearon, Amazing Monument: A Short History of the Shakespeare Industry (William Heinemass, 1939).
Brown, Ivor, William Shakespeare (London, Morgan Grampian Books, 1968).
Burgess, Anthony, Shakespeare (Great Britain, Jonathan Cape, 1970).
Calmour, Alfred D., Fact & Fiction about Shakespeare (Henry Williams, 1894).
Castle, Edward James, Shakespeare, Bacon, Johnson and Greene (London, Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., 1897).
Connell, Charles, They gave us Shakespeare - John Heminge & Henry Condell (London, Oriel Press).
Cook, Judith, At the Sign of the Swan: An Introduction to Shakespeare's Contemporaries (London, Harrap, 1986).
Duncan-Jones, Catherine, Ungentle Shakespeare: Scenes from his Life (London, The Arden Shakespeare, 2001).
Fido, Martin, Shakespeare (London, Galley Press, 1978).
Greer, Germaine, Shakespeare (Oxford University Press, 1986).
Halliday, F. E., Shakespeare (London, Thames & Hudson, 1956).
Harrison, G. B., Introducing Shakespeare (Middlesex, Penguin Books, 1966).
Herford, C. H., Shakespeare (London, T. C. & E. C. Jack).
Holden, Anthony, William Shakespeare, his life and work (Great Britain, Abacus, 2000).
Holmes, Martin, Shakespeare and Burbage (London, Phillimore, 1978).
Honigmann, E. J., Shakespeare: the Lost Years (Manchester University Press, 1985).
Lee, Sidney, A Life of William Shakespeare (Smith Elder, 1899).
Masefield, John, William Shakespeare (Williams & Norgate, 1911).
Orrell, John, The Quest for Shakespeare's Globe (Cambridge University Press, 1983).
Schoenbaum, S., Shakespeare, the Globe and the World (Oxford University Press, 1979).
Schoenbaum, S., William Shakespeare - a compact documentary life (Oxford University Press, 1987).
Schwartz, Dr. Lillian F, The Mask of Shakespeare (Pixel - Journal of Scientific Visualization. Vol. 3 # 3 March/April, pp 12-19, 1992).
Smart, John Semple, Shakespeare, Truth and Tradition (London, Edward Arnold and Co., 1928).
Sohmer, Steve, Shakespeare's Mystery Play: The Opening of the Globe Theatre, 1599 (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1999).
Southworth, John, Shakespeare the Player: A Life in the Theatre (Stroud, Sutton Publishing, 2000).
Tegg, William, Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (William Tegg, Co., 1879).
Thomson, Peter, Shakespeare's Professional Career (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994).
Wells, Stanley, Shakespeare for all Time (London, Macmillan, 2002).
Wiggins, Martin, Shakespeare and the Drama of his Time (Oxford University Press, 2000)
Williams, George Walton, The Craft of Printing and the Publication of Shakespeare's Works (New Jersey, Associated University Presses Inc., 1985).
Wilson, Jean, The Archaeology of Shakespeare: The Material Legacy of Shakespeare's Theatre (UK, Sutton Publishing, 1997).

Historical: Other

Ackroyd, Peter, The Life of Thomas More (London, Chatto and Windus, 1998).
Allen, Percy, Anne Cecil, Elizabeth & Oxford (Printed for Denis Archer 1934).
Arthur, James, A Royal Romance.
Bearman, Robert, The History of an English Borough, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1196-1996 (UK, Sutton Publishing, 1997).
Beaumont, Comyns, The Private Life of the Virgin Queen (London, Comyns, 1947).
Brumby, Robin, Doctor John Dee, or the Original 007 (Hemel Hempstead, Dacorum College, 1977).
Cecil, David, The Cecils of Hatfield House (Constable & Co., 1973; Sphere Books, 1975).
Chamberlain, Frederick, The Private Character of Queen Elizabeth (The Bodley Head).
Chambers Bunten, A., Sir Thomas Meautys, Secretary to Lord Bacon, and his Friends (London, Page and Thomas, 1918).
Chambers, E. K., The Elizabethan Stage.
Churchill, Winston S., A History of the English Speaking Peoples (London, Cassell: Vols. I & II, 1956).
Churchill, Winston S., The Island Race (London, Cassell, 1964).
Compton-Rickett, A, A History of English Literature (T. C. & E. C. Jack).
Daniel, Timothy, The Inns of Court in London (London, Wildy, 1971).
Dickens, A. G., The Age of Humanism and Reformation: Europe in the 14th, 15th and 16th Centuries (London, Prentice-Hall Int., 1977).
Dodd, Alfred, The Marriage of Elizabeth Tudor (London, Rider & Co., 1940).
Elliot, J. H., Europe Divided 1559-1598 (Fontana, 1968).
Falcus, Malcum, & John Gillingham, Historical Atlas of Britain (London, Granada, 1981).
French, Peter J., John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972).
Frisbee, George, Edward de Vere (Cecil Palmer, 1931).
Goadby,Edwin, The England of Shakespeare (London, Cassell).
Godwin, Joscelyn, Athanasius Kircher: A Renaissance Man and the Quest for Lost Knowledge (London, Thames & Hudson, 1979).
Graham, Winston, The Spanish Armadas (New York, Doubleday & Co., 1972).
Harrison, G. B., The Life & Death of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex (Cassell & Co.).
Harrison, W., ed., Memoirs of Thomas Bushell by A. de la Pryme (1878).
Hume, Martin A. S., Sir Walter Raleigh (T. Fisher Unwin, 1897).
Ingram, John H., Christopher Marlowe and his Associates (London, Grant Richards, 1904).
Jenkins, Elizabeth, Elizabeth and Leicester (London, Victor Gollancz, 1965).
Jenkins, Elizabeth, Elizabeth the Great (London, Victor Gollancz, 1965).
King, Norah, The Grimstons of Gorhambury (Chichester, Phillimore and Co., 1983).
Krailsheimer, A. J., The Continental Renaissance 1500-1600 (Penguin, 1971).
Lawrence, W. J., Those Nut-Cracking Elizabethans (London, Argonaut Press, 1935).
Linklater, Eric, Ben Jonson and King James (Jonathan Cape).
Manly, Lawrence, London in the Age of Shakespeare: An Anthology (London, Croom Helm, 1986).
Mathew, A. H., The Life of Sir Tobye Mathew (Eking Mathews).
Miles, Rosalind, Ben Jonson: His Life and Work (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986).
Milner, W. M. H., The Royal House of Britain: An Enduring Dynasty (London, Covenant Publ., 1975).
Mosher, Sally E., People and their Contexts: A chronology of the 16th century world (USA, Xlibris Co., 2001).
Nichols, John, Progresses of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1823).
Ordish, Early London Theatres (1894).
Osborne, June, Entertaining Elizabeth I: The Progresses and Great Houses of her time (Bishopsgate Press, 1989).
Pennant, Thomas, Journey from Chester to London (1782).
Perry, Maria, Sisters to the King (Andre Deutsch, 2002).
Pryme, A. de la, Memoirs of Thomas Bushell, ed. W. Harrison (1878).
Robertson, J. M., Pioneer Humanists (Watts & Co., 1907).
Rowse, A. L., The Expansion of Elizabethan England (London, Macmillan, 1955; Papermac, 1981).
Simpson, M. A., Defender of the Faith, Etcetera, The Croall Lectures, 1960-61 (Edinburgh, The Edina Press, 1978).
Slater, Gilbert, Seven Shakespeares (Cecil Palmer, 1931).
Strickland, Agnes, Lives of the Tudor and Stuart Princess (London, George Bell, 1888).
Strickland, Agnes, Queen Elizabeth (London, George Bell, 1870).
Suster, Gerald, John Dee - essential readings (London, Crucible, 1986).
Tillyard, E.M.W., The Elizabethan World Picture (London, Chatto & Windus, Pimlico Edition, 1998).
Westacott, E., Roger Bacon in Life and Legend (London, Rockliff, 1953).
Williams, H. Noel, Queen Margot, Wife of Henry of Navarre (London, Harper, 1907).
Williams, Neville, All the Queen's Men (London, Weidenfeld, 1972).
Williams, Neville, Elizabeth, Queen of England (London, Weldenfeld, 1967).
Williams, Neville, Francis Drake (London, Weldenfeld & Nicholson, 1973).
Winton, John, Sir Walter Raleigh (London, Michael Joseph, 1975).

Drama, Poetry, Philosophy, Learning

Armstrong, Edward A., Shakespeare's Imagination (Lindsay Drummond, 1946).
Bacon, Delia, The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded (London, Groombridge & Sons, 1857).
Badawi, M. M., Background to Shakespeare (London, Macmillan Press Ltd., 1981).
Bate, Jonathan, The Genius of Shakespeare (London, Picador, 1997).
Bennel, Margaret, Shakespeare's Flowering of the Spirit (East Grinstead, The Lanthorn Press, 1971).
Bloom, Harold, Shakespeare, the Invention of the Human (London, Fourth Estate, 1998).
Boas, Frederick S., Shakespeare and the Universities (1923).
Booth, William Stone, Subtle Shining Secrecies (Walter H. Baker, 1925).
Booth, William Stone, The Droeshout Portrait of William Shakespeare (Boston, W.A. Butterfield, 1911).
Bowden, Henry Sebastian, The Religion of Shakespeare (Burns & Oates, 1899).
Bradley, A. C., Shakespearean Tragedy: lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth (London, Macmillan and Co., 1905).
Briggs, Julia, This Stage: Play World, English Literature and its Background, 1580-1625 (Oxford University Press, 1983).
Campbell, John, Lord Chief Justice, Shakespeare's Legal Acquirements Considered (London, John Murray, 1859).
Cawley, Robert Ralston, Henry Peacham: His contribution to English Poetry (Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania University Press, 1971)
Clark, Arthur Melville, Murder under Trust, the Topical Macbeth (Edinburgh, Scottish Academic Press, 1981).
Clark, Natalie Rice, Hamlet on the Dial Stage (Paris, Librairie Ancienne Honore Champion, 1931).
Cobb, Noel, Prospero's Island - the secret alchemy at the heart of the Tempest (London, Coventure, 1984).
Collier, J. Payne, Shakespeare's Library: A Collection of the Romances, Novels, Poems and Histories used by Shakespeare, 2 vols (London, Thomas Rodd)
Combe, Thomas, Theater of Fine Devices (Aldershot, Scolar Press, 1990).
Danson, Lawrence, Shakespeare's Dramatic Genres (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000).
Dawkins, Peter, & Sir George Trevelyan, The Pattern of Initiation in the Evolution of Human Consciousness (The Francis Bacon Research Trust, 1981).
Dawkins, Peter, Building Paradise (The Francis Bacon Research Trust, 2001).
Dawkins, Peter, The Wisdom of Shakespeare in As You Like It (I.C.Media Productions, 1998).
Dawkins, Peter, The Wisdom of Shakespeare in Julius Caesar (I.C.Media Productions, 1999).
Dawkins, Peter, The Wisdom of Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice (I.C.Media Productions, 1998).
Dawkins, Peter, The Wisdom of Shakespeare in The Tempest (I.C.Media Productions, 2000).
Dawkins, Peter, The Wisdom of Shakespeare in Twelfth Night (I.C.Media Productions, 2002).
Dodd, Alfred, Shakespeare, The Creator of Freemasonry (London, Rider & Co.).
Dodd, Alfred, The Immortal Master (London, Rider & Co.)
Dodd, Alfred, The Secret Shakespeare (London, Rider & Co., 1941).
Dorsten, Jan Van, with Dominic Baker-Smith and Arthur F. Kinney, eds., Sir Philip Sidney, 1586 and the Creation of a Legend (Leiden, E.J.Brill/Leiden University Press, 1986), edited for the Sir Thomas Browne Institute.
Douse, T. le Marchant, The Northumberland Manuscript (London, 1904).
Dutton, Richard, Ben Jonson: to the First Folio (Cambridge University Press, 1983).
Edwards, Christopher, ed., The London Theatre Guide 1576-1642 (Royston, The Burlington Press, 1979).
Edwards, Francis, Ritual and Drama, the Mediaeval Theatre (Guildford & London, Lutterworth Press, 1976).
Edwards, Phillip, Shakespeare: A Writer's Progress (Oxford University Press, 1986).
Falconer, A. F., Shakespeare and the Sea (London, Constable, 1964).
Farrington, Benjamin, Francis Bacon, Philosopher of Industrial Science (New York, 1949; London, Lawrence and Wishart, 1951).
Fleming , I. P., Analysis of Bacon's Advancement of Learning (Longmans, Greene & Co., 1876).
Fowler, Thomas, Bacon's Novum Organum (Clarendon Press, 1878).
Gibbs, Philip, The Romance of George Villiers (Methuen & Co.).
Goddard, Harold C., The Meaning of Shakespeare, 2 vols (University of Chicago Press, 1951).
Goldsworthy, W. Lansdown, Ben Jonson and the First Folio (London, Cecil Palmer).
Goldsworthy, W. Lansdown, Shake-speare's Heraldic Emblems: Their Origin and Meaning (London, H. F. & G. Witherby, 1928).
Goodwin, John, A Short Guide to Shakespeare's Plays (London, Heinemann, 1979).
Gowther, J. G., Francis Bacon, the First Statesman of Science (1960).
Gray, Arthur, Shakespeare at Cambridge.
Green, Henry, Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers (London, Toubner, 1870).
Green, V. H. H., Renaissance and Reformation: A Survey of European History Between 1450 and 1660 (London, Arnold, 1964).
Grillo, Ernesto, Shakespeare and Italy (1949).
Gurr, Andres, Playgoing in Shakespeare's London (Cambridge University Press, 1987).
Gurr, Andrew, The Shakespearean Stage 1574-1642 (Cambridge University Press, 1982).
Gurr, Andrew, with John Orrell, Rebuilding Shakespeare's Globe (London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1989).
Hancox, Joy, Kingdom for a Stage: Magicians and Aristocrats in the Elizabethan Theatre (Stroud, Sutton Publishing Ltd., 2001)
Hancox, Joy, The Byrom Collection and the Globe Theatre Mystery (London, Jonathon Cape, 1992).
Hancox, Joy, The Byrom Collection, Renaissance Thought, the Royal Society and the Building of the Globe Theatre (London, Jonathon Cape, 1992).
Hannah, R., Francis Bacon, the Political Orator (New York, 1926)
Harman, Edward George, The Impersonality of Shakespeare (Cecil Palmer, 1925).
Hattaway, Michael, Elizabethan Popular Theatre (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982).
Hazlitt, Shakespeare Jest Books, 3 vols (London, Willis & Sotheran, 1914).
Hazlitt, William, Characters of Shakespeare's Plays (1817).
Henry, John, Knowledge is Power (Cambridge, Icon Books, 2002).
Hill, K. R. Wallace Chapel, Francis Bacon on Communication and Rhetoric (1943).
Hohnen, David, Hamlet's Castle and Shakespeare's Elsinore (Copenhagen, Christian Ejlers Forlag, 2001).
Hotson, L., The First Night of Twelfth Night (London, 1954).
Hughes, Ted, Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being (London, Faber & Faber, 1992).
Johnson, Edward D., The First Folio of Shake-speare (London, Cecil Palmer, 1932).
Kirsch, James, Shakespeare's Royal Self (New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966).
Knight, G. Wilson, Shakespearean Dimensions (Sussex, Harvester Press, 1984).
Knight, G. Wilson, The Crown of Life: Essays in interpretation of Shakespeare's final plays (London, Methuen & Co., 1948).
Knight, G. Wilson, The Imperial Theme: Further interpretations of Shakespeare's tragedies (London & New York, Methuen & Co., 1951).
Knight, G. Wilson, The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearean tragedy (London, Methuen & Co., 1949).
Lings, Martin, The Secret of Shakespeare (Wellingborough, The Aquarian Press, 1984).
Martin, Julian, Francis Bacon: The State, and Reform of Natural Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 1992).
Marx, Steven, Shakespeare and the Bible (Oxford University Press, 2000).
Miola, Robert S., Shakespeare's Reading (Oxford University Press, 2000).
Nicholl, Charles, The Chemical Theatre (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980).
Palmer, John, Comic Characters of Shakespeare (Macmillan, 1946).
Paradin, Claude, Devises Heroiques (Aldershot, Scholar Press, 1989).
Peltonen, Markku, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Bacon (Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Perez-Ramos, Antonio, Francis Bacon's Idea of Science and the Maker's Knowledge Tradition (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1988).
Pogson, Beryl, In the East My Pleasure Lies (York, Quacks Books, 1994).
Proudfoot, Richard, Shakespeare: Text, Stage & Canon (London, Arden Shakespeare, 2001).
Rowse, A. L, Prefaces to Shakespeare's Plays (London, Orbis, 1984).
Seager, N. W., Natural History in Shakespeare's Time (Elliot Stock, 1896).
Sennett, M., His Erring Pilgrimage: A new interpretation of As You Like It (London, The Francis Bacon Society, 1949).
Shaheen, Naseeb, Biblical References in Shakespeare's Plays (London, Assoc. University Presses, 1999).
Shapiro, James, Shakespeare and the Jews (New York, Columbia University Press, 1996).
Spurgeon, Caroline, Shakespeare's Imagery and What it Tells Us (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Srigley, Michael, Images of Regeneration: Study of Shakespeare's The Tempest (Stockholm, Uppsala, Pares, Martin, Mortuary Marbles (London, The Francis Bacon Society).
Strong, Roy, & John Murdoch, Jim Murrell, Patrick Noon, The English Miniature (Yale Univ. Press, 1981).
Strong, Roy, Artists of the Tudor Court: The Portrait Miniature Rediscovered 1520-1620 (London, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1983).
Strong, Roy, Nicholas Hilliard (London, Folio Miniatures: Michael Joseph, 1975).
Strong, Roy, Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I (Oxford Univ. Press, 1963).
Strong, Roy, The Cult of Elizabeth, Elizabethan Portraiture and Pageantry (London, Thames & Hudson, 1977).
Strong, Roy, The English Icon: Elizabethan and Jacobean Portraiture (London, Mellon, 1969).
Strong, Roy, Tudor and Jacobean Portraits (London, National Portrait Gallery, 1969).
Theobald, William, The Classical Element in the Shakespeare Plays (Robert Banks & Son, 1909).
Turner, Robert, Elizabethan Magic (Longmead, Element Books, 1989).
Urbach, Peter, Francis Bacon's Philosophy of Science (Illinois, Open Court, 1987).
Wigston, W. F. C., The Columbus of Literature, or Bacon's New World of Sciences (Chicago: F. J. Schulte, 1892).
Wild, Henry Douglas, Shakespeare: Prophet for our Time (Illinois, the Theosophical Publishing House, 1971).
Wordsworth, Charles, D. C. I., Shakespeare's Knowledge and Use of the Bible (Smith, Elder & Co., 1864).
Wormald, B. H. G., Francis Bacon, History, Politics & Science, 1561-1626 (Cambridge, University Press, 1993).
Yates, Frances A, Giordana Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1964, 1971, 1978).
Yates, Frances A, Shakespeare's Last Plays: a New Approach ( London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975).
Yates, Frances A, The Art of Memory (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966).
Yates, Frances A, The French Academies of the 16th Century.
Yates, Frances A, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979).
Yates, Frances A, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972).
Yates, Frances A, The Valois Tapestries (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 2nd ed. 1975).
Yates, Frances A, Theatre of the World (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972; St. Albans, Paladin, 1975).
Yates, Frances A., Astraea: The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul., 1975).
Yates, Frances A., Giordana Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul., 1964).

Freemasonry & Rosicrucianism

Anderson, James, Constitutions of Freemasonry (1723), reproduced in facsimile (London, Bernard Quaritch, 1923).
Anderson, James, Constitutions of the Freemasons (London, 1738).
Baigent, Michael, and Richard Leigh, The Temple and the Lodge (London, Jonathan Cape, 1989).
Carlile, Richard, Manual of Freemasonry (Reeves & Turner).
Case, Paul Forster, The True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order (York Beach, Maine, Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1985).
Castells, The Revd. F.de P., Historical Analysis of the Holy Royal Arch Degree (London, A. Lewis, 1929).
Cox, Rev. John Edmund, ed., The Constitutions of the Freemasons (Bro. Richard Spencer, 1871).
Curl, James Stevens, The Art and Architecture of Freemasonry (London, B.T. Batsford, 1991).
Dawkins, Peter, Francis Bacon, Herald of the New Age (Francis Bacon Research Trust, 1997).
Hall, Manly P., Codex Rosae Crucis (Los Angeles, The Philosophical Research Society, 1974).
Hall, Manly P., Freemasonry of the Ancient Egyptians (Los Angeles, Philosophical Research Society, 1973).
Hall, Manly P., Masonic Orders of Fraternity (Los Angeles, Philosophical Research Society, 1950).
Hall, Manly P., New Atlantis: Begun by the Lord Verulam and continued by R. H. Esquire (Los Angeles: The Philosophic Research Society, 1985).
Hall, Manly P., Orders of the Great Work: Alchemy (Los Angeles, Philosophical Research Society, 1949).
Hall, Manly P., Orders of the Quest: the Holy Grail (Los Angeles, Philosophical Research Society, 1949).
Hall, Manly P., Orders of Universal Reformation: Utopias (Los Angeles, Philosophical Research Society, 1949).
Hall, Manly P., The Rosicrucians and Magister Christoph Schlegel, Hermetic Roots of America (Los Angeles, The Philosophical Research Society, 1986).
Hall, Manly P., The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopaedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Cabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy (Los Angeles, Philosophical Research Society, 1962).
Jones, Bernard E., Freemasons' Book of the Royal Arch (London, George G. Harrap and Co., 1957).
Jones, Bernard E., Freemasons' Guide and Compendium (London, George G. Harrap and Co., 1950, 1973).Knoop, Douglas, An Introduction to Freemasonry (Manchester University Press, 1937).
Lewis, H. Spence, Rosicrucian Questions and Answers, with complete history of the Rosicrucian Order (AMORC, 1929).
Mackensie, Kenneth, Royal Mason Cyclopaedia (London, 1877).
Mackey, Albert, The History of Freemasonry (New York, Random House, 1996).
MacNulty, W. Kirk, Freemasonry, A Journey through Ritual and Symbol (London, Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1991).
McIntosh, Christopher, The Rosy Cross Unveiled (Wellingborough, Aquarian Press, 1980).
Pott, Mrs Henry, Francis Bacon and his Secret Society (London: Robert Banks & Son, 1911).
The Old Constitutions, belonging to the Ancient and Honorable Society of Free and Accepted Masons of England and Ireland (London, Bro. Richard Spencer, 1871).
Tudhope, George V., Bacon Masonry (privately printed, 1954).
Vibert, Wor. Bro. Lionel, Freemasonry before the existence of Grand Lodges (London, Spencer & Co.).
Vibert, Wor. Bro. Lionel, The Story of the Craft (London, Spencer & Co.).
Waite, Arthur Edward, Emblematic Freemasonry and the evolution of its deeper issues (London, William Rider & Son, 1925).
Waite, Arthur Edward, The Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross (Secaucus, New Jersey, University Books, 1973).
Waite, Arthur Edward, The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry (London, Rebman, 1911).
Wigston, W. F. C., Bacon, Shakespeare and the Rosicrucians (London: Geaorde Redway, 1888).
Yates, Frances A., The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972).

Cabala, Alchemy, Ancient Wisdom & Mysteries

Alchemy: A Comprehensive Bibliography of the Manly P. Hall Collection of Books and Manuscripts, including related material on Rosicrucianism and the writings of Jacob Boehme, edited by Ron. Charles Hogart (Los Angeles, Philosophical Research Society, 1986).
Alderink, Larry J, Creation and Salvation in Ancient Orphism (Chico, CA., Scholars Press, 1981).
Allen, R. H., Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning (New York, Dover Publ., 1963).
Bailey, Alice, The Soul and its Mechanism: The Problem of Psychology (Lucis Press).
Bailey, Harold, The Lost Language of Symbolism, 2 vols (London, Earnest Benn, 1912).
Baker, H. Kendra, Glastonbury Traditions concerning Joseph of Arimathea (London, Covenant Publ. 1928).
Best, Shabaz Britten, Genesis Revised: The Drama of Creation (Sufi Publ. 1964).
Bianchi, Ugo, The Greek Mysteries: Iconography of Religions ( Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1976).
Britten Best, Shabaz, Genesis Revised: The Drama of Creation (Sufi Publ. 1964).
Budge, Sir E. A. Wallis, Egyptian Religion: Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972).
Bullinger, E. W., The Witness of the Stars (Michigan, Kregel Publ., 1967).
Burckhardt, Titus, Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul, transl. by William Stoddart (London, Stuart & Watkins, 1967).
Campbell, Joseph, The Mythic Image (Bollingen Series C; New Jersey, Princeton Univ. Press, 1974).
Capt, E. Raymond, The Glory of the Stars: A Study of the Zodiac (California, Artisan Sales).
Clark, Kenneth, Civilisation: A Personal View (London, BBC, 1964).
Clayson, Rodman R., Egypt's Ancient Heritage (San Jose, California, Rosicrucian Library Vol. XXXI AMORC, San Jose, California, 1971).
Cook, Roger, Tree of Life: Image for the Cosmos (London, Art and Cosmos Series, Thames & Hudson, 1974).
Da Costa, Hippolyto Joseph, The Dionysian Artificers (Los Angeles, The Philosophical Research Society, 1964).
De Jong, H.M.E., Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens - sources of an Alchemical Book of Elements (York Beach ME, Nicholas-Hays, Inc., 2002).
Dionysius the Areopagite, Mystical Theology and the Celestial Hierarchies (The Shrine of Wisdom, 1965).
Drucker, Johanna, The Alphabetic Labyrinth - the Letters in History and Imagination (London, Thames & Hudson, 1995).
Eisler, Robert, Orpheus, the Fisher: Comparative Studies in Orphic and Early Christian Cult Symbolism (London, Watkins, 1921).
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Elder, Isabel Hill, George of Lydda: Soldier, Saint and Martyr (London, Covenant Books, 1949, 1980).
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