The First Folio of Shakespeare: Based on the Folios in the Folger Shakespeare Library Collection. Prepared by Charlton Hinman. Second Edition wih a new introduction by Peter W.M. Blayney.The Norton Facsimile

Shakespeare, William

ISBN 10: 0393039854 / ISBN 13: 9780393039856

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

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original red quarter leather hardcover with decorated cloth boards, 928 pages, a fine clean copy in lightly rubbed and lightly marked very good original slipcase. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf B261.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The First Folio of Shakespeare: Based on the Folios in the Folger Shakespeare Library Collection. Prepared by Charlton Hinman. Second Edition wih a new introduction by Peter W.M. Blayney.The Norton Facsimile
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393039854
• ISBN 13: 9780393039856
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Issued
• Seller catalogs:
  • Folio Society

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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.