An Original Copy of Shakespeare’s First Full Collection Sold for $10 Million at Auction

InsideHook ^ | Oct. 15, 2020 | Carl Caminetti

[libstripper]

In what has been called a once-in-a-generation event, a complete and original copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio sold for a record-setting price just under $10 million at auction earlier this week.

The First Folio, published in 1623, was the first complete printed collection of Shakespeare’s plays. Published seven years after the author’s death, the book marked not only the first complete collection of Shakespeare’s works, but also the first time those works were organized as comedies, tragedies and histories. There are around 235 copies known to exist, and only six complete ones owned privately.

[libstripper]

WOW!! Look at a picture of the book; it's in terrific condition. I hope the new owner allows a PDF of it to be made and published. There's one out there of the first edition of Churchills The River War and it's terrific. Also the only available electronic version of that work that I know of.

[Track9]

And no white gloves. Surprising

[nickcarraway]

They may want their money back. It doesn't include Pericles, Two Noble Kinsman, Cardenio, or Love's Labor Won, etc.

[fhayek]

All that glisters is not gold...

[2banana]

Not bad for a white guy.

[rightwingcrazy]

A sure way to make millions! 1. Buy a book by someone really, really famous; 2. Wait 400 years; 3. Ka-ching!

[faucetman]

Were the sellers Rick and Marty Lagina?

[TianaHighrider]

😁👍❤

[Southern Magnolia]

Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio Facsimile)

https://b-ok.cc/book/2437311/f5f2ba

It’s in djvu, not epub or mobi though.

[SunkenCiv]

[SunkenCiv]

Ben Jonson’s encomium to William Shakespeare
The First Folio | A.D. 1623 | Ben Jonson
Posted on 02/12/2006 9:46:35 PM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1577388/posts

[a fool in paradise]

Didn’t transcriptions of Shakespeare’s works start out as bootlegs?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Shakespeare never published. He lived before copyright laws. There were people who were paid to attend plays at the Globe theatre and memorize the scripts. Soon the Globe’s competitors would produce the same plays.

The folios were published six years after his death, represent some sort of consensus of Shakespeare work. There was more than one publisher of Shakespeare’s folios, and they do not all completely agree. What we think of as Shakespeare is the consensus opinion of Shakespeare scholars, mostly from the 19th Century.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

FWIW, Homer’s works were never written down until 200 years after his death, though his poems were recited from memory by bards continuously until they were codified in written consensus versions.

[mass55th]

I've found a YouTube channel that offers videos featuring British historians, covering all subject matter. They usually have guests on during each of their videos. Alexandra Churchill is one of the hosts. She has recently appeared in the second season of War Factories which airs in the U.K. on the Yesterday Channel. Her expertise is WWI.

The YouTube channel is called History Hack. Here is the link if anyone is interested:

History Hack Channel

There are already a bunch of videos that will take me forever to catch up on, but the variety of historical subjects is excellent, and their guests are individuals who have appeared as commentators, or historians in many of the programs shown in the U.K. and here.

This is Alexandra Churchill's website:

Alexandra Churchill

For those that do Facebook, here's the link to her Facebook page:

Alexandra Churchill - Facebook

[colorado tanker]

Can’t imagine what the Cancel Culture might do to Shakespeare. Ugh.

[ElkGroveDan]

They may want their money back. It doesn't include Pericles, Two Noble Kinsman, Cardenio, or Love's Labor Won, etc.

The collection that includes those is buried on Oak Island next to the Ark of the Covenant.

[Seruzawa]

10 Mill for Shakespeare's originals. Yet this piece of crap modern "art" by some lunatic goes for 110 Mill.

The world's gone mad.

[SunkenCiv]

This topic was posted 10/15/2020, thanks libstripper.