Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1913 — Shakespeare First Follo. [ARTICLE]

Shakespeare First Follo.

There appear to have been 500 copies of the Shakespeare first folio printed, of which about 200 are known to have survived/ Of these, fewer than 20 are are in perfect state, while about 160 copies have sustained serious damage at various The value of the four early folio editions of Shakespeare is partly determined by their pedigrees. Tbe duke of Leeds owns a first folio on whloh two former owners, Charles Killigrew and William Congreve, have inscribed their names. Garrick’s first folio is hi the library of Queen’s college, Oxford. Sir Henry Irving possessed a second folio which had belonged successively to Lewis Theobald, the greatest of all Shakepeare’s textual critics. Dr. Johnson and Samuel Ireland. In South Kensington museum there is a third folio adorned with a curious collection of autographs. At tbs top of the title page 1* the signature of Leigh Hunt, and on other portions Sire the signatures of Charles Dickons, Robert Browning. William Wordsworth, Charles Knight And George Henry Lewes.—London Chronicle. j