Author: Folger Shakespeare Library
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ISBN: 9780816109494
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Folger Shakespeare Library
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 708

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Author: Folger Shakespeare Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1138

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Author: Bonnie R. Nelson
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810814776
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Author: Stephen H. Grant
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421411873
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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The first biography of Henry and Emily Folger, who acquired the largest and finest collection of Shakespeare in the world. In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger of Brooklyn, a couple who were devoted to each other, in love with Shakespeare, and bitten by the collecting bug. Shortly after marrying in 1885, the Folgers started buying, cataloging, and storing all manner of items about Shakespeare and his era. Emily earned a master's degree in Shakespeare studies. The frugal couple worked passionately as a tight-knit team during the Gilded Age, financing their hobby with the fortune Henry earned as president of Standard Oil Company of New York, where he was a trusted associate of John D. Rockefeller Sr. While a number of American universities offered to house the collection, the Folgers wanted to give it to the American people. Afraid the price of antiquarian books would soar if their names were revealed, they secretly acquired prime real estate on Capitol Hill near the Library of Congress. They commissioned the design and construction of an elegant building with a reading room, public exhibition hall, and the Elizabethan Theatre. The Folger Shakespeare Library was dedicated on the Bard's birthday, April 23, 1932. The library houses 82 First Folios, 275,000 books, and 60,000 manuscripts. It welcomes more than 100,000 visitors a year and provides professors, scholars, graduate students, and researchers from around the world with access to the collections. It is also a vibrant center in Washington, D.C., for cultural programs, including theater, concerts, lectures, and poetry readings. The library provided Grant with unprecedented access to the primary sources within the Folger vault. He draws on interviews with surviving Folger relatives and visits to 35 related archives in the United States and in Britain to create a portrait of the remarkable couple who ensured that Shakespeare would have a beautiful home in America.

Author: Andrea Mays
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439118256
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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"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." --

Author: Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520321871
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2816

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 3310

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1852

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