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

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, an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mays, Andrea E. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2015]
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Folger, Henry Clay, > 1857-1930.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Bibliography > Folios. 1623.
Book collectors > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Millionaires > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
New York (N.Y.) > Commerce > History.
New York (N.Y.) > Intellectual life.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Friends and associates.
Publishers and publishing > England > London > History > 17th century.
London (England) > Intellectual life > 17th century.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
DRAMA / Shakespeare.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.