A nearly 400-year-old collection of William Shakespeare’s plays sold just under $2.5 million at Sotheby’s auction in New York City on Thursday. The folio is one of 18 remaining copies left held by ...

A rare copy of William Shakespeare’s first folio has sold for $2.4m (£2m). Printed in 1623, the book titled Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, compiles 36 of the bard’s plays.

This copy of the First Folio is one of fewer than 20 in private hands. Sotheby’s Seven years after William Shakespeare’s death in 1616, two of the playwright’s friends gathered, edited and printed 36 ...

(CNN) — A rare copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio sold for almost $10 million Wednesday, becoming the most expensive work of literature ever to appear at auction, according to Christie’s. The ...