Bacon and Shakespeare. By Albert F. Calvert . by CALVERT, Albert F

London: Dean & Son, Limited, 160A, Fleet Street, 1902 . 0. First edition. A very good original binding. 8vo. 25.3cm x 16.6cm x 2.3cm. pp.8/[4pp.]/pp.133 . Ivory coloured cloth covered boards. Gilt titles to both front board and spine. Boards lightly soiled and edges rubbed. All page edges gilt. Light toning to endpapers, otherwise clean text and illustrations throughout. A very good copy. ** "Albert Frederick Calvert (1872-1946), author, traveller and mining engineer, was born on 20 July 1872 at Kentish Town, Middlesex, England, son of John Calvert, mining engineer, and his wife Grace, née Easley. He was brought up principally by his grandfather John Calvert (1814-1897), a widely travelled mineralogist who claimed extensive gold discoveries in Australia in the 1840s. Initiated as a Freemason in 1893, he became something of an authority on Masonic history in later life, though his work is not now highly regarded. Depending on Masonic help in his last years, Calvert died of cerebro-vascular disease in the Archway Hospital, Islington, London, on 27 June 1946, survived by his wife and four sons." - See Australian Dictionary of Biography. .