The Blount, Edward, flourished 1588-1632 Printer Droeshout, Martin, born 1601 Engraver Jaggard, Isaac, died 1627 Printer Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Author text text enk monographic London [publisher not identified] 1623 eng

electronic resource

remote

computer

online resource

1 online resource. Printed in the large "folio" size, the First Folio is the first collected edition of the plays of William Shakespeare. It was put together after his death in 1616 by two fellow actors, John Heminge and Henry Condell, and was published in 1623. The book contains the complete text of 36 of Shakespeare's plays. The principal publishers were Edward Blount (1565--1632), a London bookseller and publisher, and Isaac Jaggard (died 1627), son of William Jaggard (circa 1568--1623), a printer and publisher long associated with Shakespeare, who died the year the folio was produced. How many copies of the First Folio were printed is unknown, but the edition most likely was quite small: probably no more than 750 copies. The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC holds 82 copies of the First Folio, about a third of those still in existence, and by far the largest collection in the world. Presented here is copy 68 of this collection. Title devised, in English, by Library staff. Original resource extent: 455 pages, irregular pagination : 1 portrait (engraving) ; 34 centimeters. Original resource at: Folger Shakespeare Library. Content in English. Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions. 1623 Drama United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland England 822 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.wdl/wdl.11290 2021666879 DLC 210507 20250607105718.7 22055922 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208) eng