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Northumberland Manuscripts
Burgoyne, Frank J., Editor
Northumberland Manuscripts: Collotype Facsimile & Type Transcript of an Elizabethan Manuscript Preserved at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, Containing: i. Of Tribute, or Giving What is Due, by Francis Bacon; ii. Of Magnanimitie, by Francis Bacon; iii. Advertisement Touching Private Censure, by Francis Bacon; iv. Advertisement Touching the Controversies of the Church, by Francis Bacon; v. Letter to a French Gentleman Touching the Proceedings in England in Ecclesiastical Causes, by Francis Bacon; vi. Speeches for a Device Presented A.D. 1595, by Francis Bacon; vii. Speech of the Earl of Sussex; viii. Letter from Sir Philip Sidney to Queen Elizabeth on her Proposed Marriage to the Duke of Anjou; ix. Leicester's Commonwealth.
Longmans, Green, and Co., London New York and Bombay, 1904. Hardcover. Limited edition, only 250 copies printed. Green cloth covered boards, quarto, 166pp. + 90 folio facsimiles at rear. handsome gilt to top edge of block. Near perfect condition from the Francis Bacon Society library collection.
A most important work in the history of Baconian, literary and historical research edited by Frank J., Burgoyne who massively expanded upon the cursory and functional notice from Bacon biographer James Spedding years before, and in 1904 presented Bacon's manuscript 'for the first time photographically facsimiled.' The work was dedicated to the Duke of Northumberland and to Baconian and M.P. Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence 'without whose aid and encouragement the volume could not have been published.'
The outer cover of Bacon's collection of manuscripts contains references and links to the narrative Shakespeare poem The Rape of Lucrece and another three of his Shakespeare plays Love’s Labour’s Lost, Romeo and Juliet & The Merchant of Venice. This is the only manuscript where the names Bacon and Shakespeare appear together in a contemporary document. Various forms of his name Bacon and Francis Bacon and his pseudonym Shakespeare and William Shakespeare have been scribbled across its outer cover on around twenty occasions
Burgoyne of Blaenavon, Wales who was the Chief Librarian of Lambeth from 1887 until his death in 1913 and 'under his care the Lambeth Libraries became the best equipped institutions of the kind in the Metropolis'.
'Mr. Burgoyne combined a wide professional knowledge with ripe scholarship and a great love of books, and, in addition to several authoritative works on public library administration, published some important contributions to Baconian Literature.’ Obituary from The Pall Mall Gazette October 20th 1913
See Biography of Frank J., Burgoyne