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Some pages of the First Folio—134 out of the total of 900—were proofread and corrected while the job of printing the book was ongoing. As a result, the Folio differs from modern books in that individual copies vary considerably in their typographical errors.
The First Folio has more than 900 pages, making the book’s width 1 3/4 - 2 inches depending on the paper. Approximately 750 books were printed. We know of 233 remaining and 82 of them are at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
The First Folio was the first folio ever published in England devoted exclusively to plays. Before 1623, about half of Shakespeare’s plays were published in quartos—small, one-play books made by folding sheets of paper twice, to create eight pages per sheet.
Apr 21, 2023 · “So every First Folio is a random collection of corrected and uncorrected pages.” Weighing in at nearly five pounds, the Folio debuted a year later than initially advertised. The bound book ...
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- Shakespeare had no involvement in the printing of the First Folio because he had died seven years prior, in 1616. Two of Shakespeare’s friends, John Heminge and Henry Condell—who were also actors in the King’s Men, the playing company for which the Bard wrote—put together the First Folio as a tribute to their departed friend.
- Folio describes the book’s physical format. A folio was a type of book made by folding paper only once, creating four pages per sheet. Folios were expensive due to their large size and high quality bindings, so typically, only important texts—usually of a historical, royal, or religious nature—were published in this format.
- Roughly 750 copies of the First Folio were printed—and 235 have survived to this day. On November 8, 1623, the First Folio was entered into The Stationer’s Register—which recorded publishing rights—and went on sale.
- In 2020, a copy sold for nearly $10 million, making it one of the most expensive works of literature ever sold. Buying a First Folio back when it was first published was a luxury, but these days only millionaires can even consider purchasing one (and even then only when they become available, which is rarely).
Our copies - apart from the Ashburnham copy of the First Folio which contains an original '3rd state' printing of the portrait - have facsimile pages. As the page featuring the Droeshout portrait was popularly removed in the 18th and 19th centuries and displayed elsewhere.
For the First Folio, a large undertaking of more than 900 pages, a syndicate of five men was formed, headed by Edward Blount and William Jaggard. The actors John Heminge and Henry Condell undertook the collection of 36 of Shakespeare’s plays, and about 1,000 copies of the First Folio were printed, none too well, by Jaggard’s son, Isaac.
