The millionaire and the bard : Henry Folger's obsessive hunt for Shakespeare's first folio Cover Image

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The millionaire and the bard : Henry Folger's obsessive hunt for Shakespeare's first folio / Andrea Mays.

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 Millionaire and the Bard tells 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." -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781439118252
Physical Description: volumes (350 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster , 2015.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-316) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue -- The Good [That Men Do] Is Oft Interred with Their Bones -- Adieu...Remember Me -- Whatever You Do, Buy -- My Shakespeare, Rise -- Had I the Money, You Would Come... -- Had I the Means, I would not Hesitate to Buy -- The Most Precious Book in the World -- A Shakespeare Discovery -- Do... Devise Some Way to Get the Books -- The False Folio -- I Am an American -- Portrait of a Collector -- Thou Art a Moniment, Without a Tombe -- It is the Key of our Hearts -- Epilogue.