Thursday, March 30, 2006
First Folio For Sale
from the BBC:
I'll never forget seeing a first folio at the British Library. It's amazing to me whenever something like this comes up for auction. I'm sad that the Theological Library has to sell it to continue their existence, but at the same time hopefully another institution will buy it (or have it bought for them). Then they can be the safekeepers for another three hundred years until they need to sell it to raise some funds.
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A rare book of Shakespeare's plays, considered to be one of the most important in British literature, is to be auctioned at Sotheby's in London.Full Article
The complete first folio of the playwright's work had a print run of approximately 750 in 1623.
However, only a third of these survive and most of them are incomplete.
The book is being sold by Dr Williams's Theological Library in London, which hopes the proceeds - expected to be more than £3m - will secure its future.
I'll never forget seeing a first folio at the British Library. It's amazing to me whenever something like this comes up for auction. I'm sad that the Theological Library has to sell it to continue their existence, but at the same time hopefully another institution will buy it (or have it bought for them). Then they can be the safekeepers for another three hundred years until they need to sell it to raise some funds.
