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

This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have interacted with this iconic book over the four...

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Main Author: Smith, Emma (Emma Josephine) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
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