Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1899 — One Copy of Shakespeare. [ARTICLE]

One Copy of Shakespeare.

A well-known collector once paid £IOO for a single leaf with which to <nake' his first folio of Shakespeare a fieri ect copy. A complete copy of this amous volume, issued nearly three centuries ago at about a sovereign, has been sold for £9B. But it was full of defects, many of the leaves being in facsimile, and the celebrated portrait of Shakespeare being only a reprint. A complete and perfect copy, such as is possessed by the Baroness BurdettCoutts, would realize quite £I,OOO in the opfen market.