![]() ![]() Its price continues to rise at auction as Sotheby's Selby Kiffer shows and its allure. UCI Libraries' Exhibits Program promotes the diverse holdings and scholarly and cultural value of the Libraries' collections to the campus and community. There's something about the Shakespeare First Folio. Your Support Makes These Exhibits Possible Incorporating four centuries of rare books and artwork, the exhibit traces the growing recognition of his genius and his rise in popularity both in England and around the globe.Ĭurated by Derek Quezada, Rare Books Librarian at USCĮdited by Christina Acevedo and Cheryl Baltesĭesigned by Allan Helmick, Sylvia Irving, and Luisa LeeĤ00 Years of Shakespeare’s First Folio will be on display in the Langson Library May through December 2023 during regular library hours. The 1623 book, published seven years after the Bards death, was the first collected. 400 Years of Shakespeare’s First Folio explores the diverse influences Shakespeare drew from in the late Renaissance as well as his contributions to the English language and far-reaching impact on the visual arts. A copy of William Shakespeares First Folio has been sold for a record 9.98m (£7.6m) at auction in New York. In celebration of the First Folio’s 400th anniversary, this exhibit delves into what makes the First Folio so treasured, with special attention paid to the copy housed in the UCI Libraries Special Collections and Archives. Printed seven years after Shakespeare’s death, the First Folio was the first compilation of his plays, 18 of which had never been published before. 137-59.Published in 1623, Shakespeare’s First Folio was a landmark of printing at the time and, as of 2020, is the most expensive piece of literature ever auctioned. “From Stage to Printing House.” Making Shakespeare: From Stage to Page. Il First Folio è la prima edizione della raccolta delle opere teatrali di William Shakespeare, raccolte e pubblicate nel 1623, sette anni dopo la sua morte. Shakespeare and the Book. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Selling Shakespeare: Biography, Bibliography, and the Book Trade. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Publishing Shakespeare's First Folio, with Chris Laoutaris Posted We talk with Chris Laoutaris about his new book, an in-depth look at the First Folio, its creation, and its legacy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. The First Folio of Shakespeare. Folger Shakespeare Library, March 1991.Įrne, Lukas. ![]() Royal Shakespeare Company, “Printing the First Folio”: Books About Shakespeare’s First Folioīlayney, Peter. Yesterday, a copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio (1623) sold at Christie’s in New York for 9. Learn More about the First Folio Websites and Videos About Printing Shakespeare’s First Folioįirst Folio Facts from the University of Arizona: įolger Shakespeare Library, “Printing 101”: A typical single sheet, so printed and folded, is a “bifolium.” “Folio” refers to the size of a book that results from printing two pages side-by-side on a sheet of paper, front and back, and folding the sheet once vertically. That would determine how many pages would be printed on a single sheet of paper and how many sheets of paper would be folded together to create one “gathering” to be stitched together and possibly bound. Printers also had to decide what size book to produce. Printers were responsible for supplying the paper, and estimated a print job by the number of sheets required. Known colloquially as the first folio, it. In early modern England, printers described the length of a book by the number of sheets (which we’ll explore below). William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, published seven years after his death in 1623. She highlights the peculiarities of this edition, including a cross. Today, we would typically describe the length of a book by the number of pages. Emma Smith examines the copy of the First Folio currently held at Wadham College, Oxford. Our focus here is on the unexpected ways these pages were printed-out of sequence-in order to assemble the book for reading-in the right sequence. ![]() We can spare you all that, as we work with twenty-first century technologies to introduce aspects of seventeenth-century craftsmanship. An entry has been created in the appropriate place in the TOC. Although not listed in the Contents page, this folio contains Troilus and Cressida (the first work in the Tragedies section). Early modern printing houses were noisy, smelly, crowded spaces, requiring long hours of repetitive hard labor over the hand-presses. A copy of the first collected edition of William Shakespeare's plays went on display in London on Monday, to mark the 400th anniversary of. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies Faithfully Reproduced in Facsimile from the Edition of 1623 (1910) William Shakespeare. The First Folio was produced in William and Isaac Jaggard’s printing house between 16. ![]()
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