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The Shakespeare First Folio Sotheby’s Catalogue & The Book of William by Paul Collins

Sotheby's, London, separate auction catalogue for Lot 95 in the sale held on 13th July, 2006. The separate catalogue entirely devoted to this interesting copy of Shakespeare's first folio. Contents include: Introduction by Stanley Wells; The First Folio of Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; The Story of the First Folio; Rights; The Printing of the First Folio; The Three Issues; Number of copies; Surviving copies; The Portrait; The format of the First Folio; and the commendatory poems; The History of this copy; Dr Daniel Williams; Dr Williams's Library; The backing on the title page; The missing 'To the Reader' leaf; The Manuscript Annotations; Nature of the Main Annotations; Illustration Acknowledgements.

Catalogue aside, this is a comprehensive write up on The Shakespeare First Folio. The First Folio is of major importance as it is the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays, without which there may not have been a William Shakespeare.

Sotheby's Catalogue Features;

• The Dr Williams’s Library Copy 13th July 2006
• Publisher Sotheby’s, London; 2006
• Blindstamped decorated burgundy cloth with title-panel inset on front board, 60 pp
• Superbly Illustrated Throughout
• Size 275 x 215mm

Condition: As New – As New Copy

The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World by Paul Collins. Shakespeare's First Folio, the first complete collection of his plays, was almost never printed. Its eventual publication went practically unnoticed, and many of the original 750 copies were gone before the turn of the eighteenth century. But a hundred years later the plays were rediscovered, beginning the long, surprising process that secured Shakespeare's legacy.

Paul Collins, lover of odd books and author of the national bestseller Sixpence House, takes up the strange quest for this white whale of precious books. Broken down into five acts, each tied to a different location and century, The Book of William s travelogue follows the trail of the Folio s curious rise: a dizzying S otheby s auction on a pristine copy preserved since the seventeenth century, the Fleet Street machinations of the eighteenth century, the nineteenth century quests for lost Folios, obsessive acquisitions by twentieth century oilmen, and the high-tech hoards of twenty-first century Japan. Finally, Collins speculates on Shakespeare s cross-cultural future as Asian buyers enter their Folios into the electronic ether, and recounts the book s remarkable journey as it is found in attics, gets lost in oceans and fires, is bought and sold, and ultimately becomes immortal.

The Book Of William Features;

• Publisher Bloomsbury, New York; 2009
• Black Cloth Hardback with Gilt Titles, 246 pp
• Size 215 x 145mm
• ISBN13: 9781596911963

Condition: As New – As New Copy

Combined weight 1.2kg

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