| Edition |
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
| Description |
xvi, 350 pages, 8 unnumbered unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-338) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue -- The Good [That Men Do] Is Oft Interred with Their Bones -- Adieu...Remember Me -- Whatever You Do, Buy -- My Shakespeare, Rise -- Had I the Money, You Would Come... -- Had I the Means, I would not Hesitate to Buy -- The Most Precious Book in the World -- A Shakespeare Discovery -- Do... Devise Some Way to Get the Books -- The False Folio -- I Am an American -- Portrait of a Collector -- Thou Art a Moniment, Without a Tombe -- It is the Key of our Hearts -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
Documents the romantic story of the making of the First Folio, relating how a few years after a virtually unknown Shakespeare died, his former partners, friends and actors gathered his surviving manuscripts, unaware that they would create one of the most important English-language books ever published. |
| Subject |
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Bibliography -- Folios. 1623.
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Book collectors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
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Millionaires -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Commerce -- History.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Friends and associates.
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Publishers and publishing -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century.
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London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
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| Added Title |
Henry Folger's obsessive hunt for Shakespeare's first folio |
| ISBN |
9781439118238 hardback |
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143911823X hardback |
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9781439118252 trade paperback |
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1439118256 trade paperback |
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