![]() ![]() Maybe that's enough.’ And Henry Folger said at one point, each copy has a reason for its existence.” “There were points in the Folger's collecting where in correspondence there's this sense of, ‘Well, maybe we should slow down. “I think obsession is a good word,” says Greg Prickman, Folger’s director of collections. Thanks to a buying spree that founders Henry and Emily Folger made over a century ago, the library already owns 82 copies. The Folger Shakespeare Library won’t be competing to acquire the book. The famous "Droeshout portrait" of Shakespeare from the First Folio. ![]() One of them is now on sale at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair - where it may go for millions of dollars The last one at auction sold for nearly $10 million, beating expectations. Only 235 copies of the First Folio are known to have survived - making them some of the most valuable books in the world. The Bard had been dead for nearly a decade, and without the Folio, we likely wouldn’t know about 18 of his plays - histories like “Julius Caesar,” tragedies like “Macbeth” and comedies like “Twelfth Night.” William Shakespeare’s friends and close collaborators succeeded at publishing his works in a huge book - the First Folio - 400 years ago. Shakespeare's first folio was published 400 years ago. ![]()
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