The First Folio of Shakespeare : Based on Folios in the Folger Library Collection. The Norton Facsimile

Shakespeare, William; Hinman, Charlton

ISBN 10: 0393039854 / ISBN 13: 9780393039856

Published by W.W. Norton & Company 1996, New York and London, 1996

About this Item

Facsimile edition. xxvii, 928 pp. Publisher's quarter faux maroon leather over illustrated silk boards. Gilt lettering & decoration to spine. Ribbon bookmark. In gilt lettered slipcase, which has only slight scratches. Fine book in a near fine slipcase. A very handsome volume. 0393039854 Folio.

Seller Inventory # 72994

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The First Folio of Shakespeare : Based on Folios in the Folger Library Collection. The Norton Facsimile
• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company 1996, New York and London
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393039854
• ISBN 13: 9780393039856
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Slipcase
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Synopsis

One of the essential books of English literature and culture, the justly famous First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, a full-size photographic facsimile that has won the admiration of actors and scholars throughout the world.

When it was published in 1968, The Norton Facsimile set a new standard for scholarly accuracy. It was the first facsimile in which every page had been selected from a large number of copies in an attempt to find a clean, clear example with minimal show-through. Even more important, it offered the latest, most corrected state of pages known to vary from copy to copy because of correction at press. Finally, it introduced a standard system of reference, "through line numbering," based on the lines printed in the 1623 edition rather than on the acts, scenes, and lines of a modern edition. These improvements, the meticulous work of the great Folio scholar Charlton Hinman made possible by the extensive Folger Library Collection, established The Norton Facsimile as an indispensable volume for book collectors and serious readers of Shakespeare.

About the Author

The late Charlton Hinman was the editor of the Shakespeare Quarto Facsimiles and professor of English at the University of Kansas.