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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Mays, Andrea E.     Subjects     Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930.     Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Bibliography -- Folios. 1623.     Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616     Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Friends and associates     Book collectors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.     Millionaires -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.     Publishers and publishing -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century.     New York (N.Y.) -- Commerce -- History.     New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life.     London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Mays, Andrea E.       by title:      The millionaire and ...       by call number:      822.33 Gm     Search the Web     Mays, Andrea E.     Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930.     Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Bibliography -- Folios. 1623.     Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616     Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Friends and associates     Book collectors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.     Millionaires -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.     Publishers and publishing -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century.     New York (N.Y.) -- Commerce -- History.     New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life.     London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.       MARC Display

The millionaire and the bard : Henry Folger's obsessive hunt for Shakespeare's first folio / Andrea E. Mays. by Mays, Andrea E. Simon & Schuster, 2015. Call #: 822.33 Gm Subjects Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930.   Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Bibliography -- Folios. 1623.   Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616   Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Friends and associates   Book collectors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.   Millionaires -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.   Publishers and publishing -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century.   New York (N.Y.) -- Commerce -- History.   New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life.   London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. ISBN:  9781439118238 (hc.) 143911823X (hc.) Edition:  First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Description:  xvi, 350 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index. Summary:  "Today it is the most valuable book in the world. Recently one sold for over five million dollars. It is the book that rescued the name of William Shakespeare and half of his plays from oblivion. The miraculous and romantic story of the making of the First Folio, and of the American industrialist whose thrilling pursuit of the book became a lifelong obsession. When Shakespeare died in 1616 half of his plays died with him. No one - not even the author - believed his writings would last, that he was a genius, or that future generations would celebrate him as the greatest author in the history of the English language. By the time of his death his plays were rarely performed, eighteen of them had never been published, and the rest existed only in bastardized forms. Seven years later, in 1623, Shakespeare's business partners, companions, and fellow actors, John Heminges and Henry Condell, gathered copies of the plays and manuscripts, edited and published thirty-six of them. This massive book, the First Folio, was intended as a memorial to their deceased friend. They could not have known that it would become one of the most important books ever published in the English language, nor that it would become a fetish object for collectors. A literary detective story, the tale of two mysterious men - a brilliant author and his obsessive collector - separated by space and time. A tale of two cities - Elizabethan and Jacobean London and Gilded Age New York. A chronicle of two worlds - of art and commerce - that unfolded an ocean and three centuries apart. The thrilling tale of the luminous book that saved the name of William Shakespeare 'to the last syllable of recorded time'"--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Captain William Spry Public Library Adult Nonfiction 822.33 Gm Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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