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Shakespeare's First Folio : four centuries of an iconic book / Emma Smith

by Emma Smith

This biography of the 1623 First Folio traces the history of Shakespeare's collected plays through surviving individual copies. It analyses physical marks, such as marginalia and bindings, to explore how the book has been owned, read, and valued over four centuries.

Accession 27713 ISBN 9780192886644 Publisher Oxford University Press
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