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The First Folio of Shakespeare, Norton facsimile
The First Folio of Shakespeare, Norton facsimile
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Association copy with first blank bearing numerous signatures including Mark Van Doren, Dorothy Van Doren, Gordon Sherman Haight, Charles Lester Walker, Helen Thurber etc…The Norton Facsimile: The First Folio of Shakespeare Prepared by Charlton Hinman, New York, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, 1968. 35 x 24 cm., First edition in this form, xxvii, blank, half title, blank, 928 pp., Title page in two colors, introduction, photographic facsimile of the best page in the Folger Library for each page, variant pages illustrated, Half red morocco and red cloth with gilt lettering and decorations, top edges gilt, original red cloth slipcase, fine. As printing of the First Folios proceeded, proofs were read and corrections were made. The uncorrected sheets were not thrown out, but were mixed in with the corrected ones,so no two First Folios, of which there are 240 in existence, are identical. This edition reproduces pages from 29 of the most satisfactory copies, out of the 82 now in the Folger Shakespeare Library. 
Offered for sale by Denis Gouey of 'And Books Too' - for more information please contact him via email at bibliopegist@yahoo.com or text  8605425813
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