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Tag Archives: First Folio
First Folios for sale
On 7 July 2022 a copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio will be sold in New York. It’s estimated that it will sell for “only” $2.5 million. The record-holder is the copy sold, again in New York, in October 2020 … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Andy Jaggard, Anthea Carter, First Folio, Folger Shakespeare Library, Gerald Jaggard, Gordon family, Henry Clay Folger, Shakespeare Club of Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare Press, Sotheby's, William Jaggard
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Shakespeare annotated: John Milton’s First Folio
Over the last few weeks the hottest story in Shakespeare studies has been the identification of a First Folio in the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Rare Book Department as John Milton’s own copy, annotated in his own hand. The book … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged Caitlin Morgan, Claire Bourne, First Folio, Free Library of Philadelphia, Jason Scott-Warren, John Milton, Libraries Week
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Celebrating Ben Jonson’s First Folio
As well as being the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, 1616 is also a significant date for anyone interested in the theatre and writing of the period. Between 6 and 25 November 1616 Ben Jonson’s Workes was published, a monumental … Continue reading
Shakespeare in Miniature
They say all the best things come in small packages, and it’s certainly true that we all find small things, that seem to defy the normal, fascinating. It’s easy to see why some things, like miniature paintings, came to exist: … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged binding, bookbinding, First Folio, Folger Shakespeare Library, miniature, Neale and Margaret Albert, University of Virginia
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Shakespeare in Sydney 2
On Tuesday we visited what is called on the website, “one of the most unusual places in Australia”, the Shakespeare Room at the State Library of New South Wales, that stands just across the road from the Shakespeare monument I … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged Australia, First Folio, Roubiliac, Shakespeare Room. mulberry wood, State Library of New South Wales
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First Folio discovery on the Isle of Bute
It’s only two weeks or so since it was announced that an unknown copy of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio had been found at Shuckburgh House in Warwickshire (see my blog on 24 March), and now another one has been … Continue reading
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Tagged Emma Smith, First Folio, Isaac Reed, Isle of Bute, Mount Stuart House, Scotland
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Found in Warwickshire: the Shuckburgh folios
Anyone who hopes that there are Shakespeare treasures still to be found must have felt their hearts flutter when it was announced that the major auction house Christies is to sell copies of all four Shakespeare folios in May. Why the … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged Anthony James West, Christie's, Eric Rasmussen, First Folio, Shuckburgh, Sir Sidney Lee
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Shakespeare at Windsor
A new exhibition Shakespeare in the Royal Library, running from 13 February 2016 to 1 January 2017, celebrates the connections between the royal family and Shakespeare through the collections in the Royal Library and elsewhere at Windsor Castle. Many of the royal … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Charles Kean, Duke of Wellington, First Folio, George IV, John Cheere, Louis Haghe, Osborne House, Prince Regent, Queen Victoria, Royal Library, Windsor Castle
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The making of the First Folio
I wrote a week or so ago about Emma Smith’s new book The Making of Shakespeare’s First Folio, published by Bodleian Library Publishing, and the stories relating to the Bodleian Library’s own copy. One of the books I inherited from … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Plays and Poems
Tagged Bodleian Library, Emma Smith, First Folio, Pericles, R Compton Rhodes
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Looking at the First Folio in 2016
It’s still seven years until the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the First Folio, arguably the most important book in the English language. But this year, when Shakespeare’s achievement is being celebrated, the first collected edition of his … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Bodleian Library, Emma Smith, First Folio, Folger Shakespeare Library, Iowa City, Oxford, printing, The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare, The Center for the Book, The making of Shakespeare's First Folio, travelling exhibition, University of Iowa
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