In 1623, seven years after William Shakespeare's death, a compilation of 36 of his plays were published together in one volume. No more than 750 copies of this 'First Folio' were printed and today ...

Shakespeare's friendly rival Ben Jonson had previously published his own writings, poems included, in a folio. The 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare, however, is the earliest folio consisting only of an ...

A copy of Shakespeare's First Folio has sold ... such as Macbeth and The Tempest. About 750 copies of the First Folio were originally printed, but only 232 have survived, auctioneers Sothebys ...