After Shakespeare’s death in 1616, his plays were collected into a single volume by his friends John Heminges and Henry ... First Folio proved successful enough that an updated edition, the ...

The sale marks the first time since 1989 that the first four editions of William Shakespeare’s collected works appear at auction as a single lot.

The First Folio is widely considered one of the English language’s most influential texts, and it proved essential in ...

A complete set of the earliest published editions of William Shakespeare’s plays is going up for auction at Sotheby’s next month and could fetch as much as £4.5 million ($6 million). The rare ...