![]() ![]() Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox.īy signing up you agree to our terms of use Related News The Struggle of Writing Poetry During a Pandemic It is believed that many fragments were in his collection at the time of his death. In 1949, he gave four complete copies of the First Folio to his alma mater, the University of Miami. Fisher, who died in 1961, had a collection of rare books and manuscripts numbering over 80,000 individual works. Otto Orrin Fisher, whose name is inscribed in the binding. The fragment in question has been rebound, most likely by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in London for previous owner Dr. It is an honor to purchase one of only a handful of complete copies of this epochal volume.” Complete copies come up for sale very rarely - the previous one sold in 2001 for over $6 million. The buyer, rare book collector Stephan Loewentheil, said: “The first folio is the most important collection of plays ever published and revered throughout the world. Last year, a rare complete copy became the most expensive book ever sold, when Mills College sold it at auction for a little under $10 million. Each edition has slight changes to the text that make them identifiable. Shakespeare’s Second Folio (and Third Folio and Fourth Folio) are essentially reprintings of the First Folio. Related News The Naughty List by Thomas Conway a different Santa Story - Book Room Reviews ![]()
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