Smithsonian Magazine

399-Year-Old Copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio Could Fetch $2.5 Million at Auction

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 ...
Robb Report

A Copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio Just Sold for $2.4 Million at Auction

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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A New Copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio Was Found in a Scottish Library

The three volumes of the newly-discovered copy of Shakespeare's First Folio. Mount Stuart Trust In 1623, just a few years after William Shakespeare’s death, 36 of his plays were compiled in a ...