SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616) Comedies, Histories, and Tr...

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Lot 12 | SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616) Comedies, Histories, and Tr...
SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the True Originall Copies. Edited by John Heminges (d. 1630) and Henry Condell (d. 1627). London: Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount at the Charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley, 1623.

A fine and complete copy of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays

The most important book in English literature and an icon of world literature

The First Folio uniquely preserves eighteen of Shakespeare's plays

This is the first complete copy to be offered at auction since 2001

Only five complete copies are known in private hands

Accompanied by an autograph letter dated 1809 by the great Shakespeare scholar Edmond Malone, attesting to its cleanness and authenticity

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