First Folio (Shakespeare)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/First_Folio_(Shakespeare)

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Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:book published work
gptkbp:author	gptkb:William_Shakespeare
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gptkbp:countryOfPublication	gptkb:England
gptkbp:editor	gptkb:Henry_Condell gptkb:John_Heminges
gptkbp:estimatedSurvivingCopies	235
gptkbp:followedBy	gptkb:Second_Folio
gptkbp:genre	drama
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	First Folio (Shakespeare)
gptkbp:language	English
gptkbp:mediaType	gptkb:print
gptkbp:notableFeature	approximately 900 pages dedication to the Earls of Pembroke and Montgomery division into comedies, histories, and tragedies errors and variations between copies highly valuable to collectors and scholars includes 18 plays not previously printed omits Pericles and The Two Noble Kinsmen omits Shakespeare's poems omits Shakespeare's sonnets omits some plays now attributed to Shakespeare prefatory poems by Ben Jonson printed by Jaggard family printed in folio format engraved portrait of Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout basis for most modern editions of Shakespeare's plays
gptkbp:notableFor	gptkb:Bodleian_Library_copy gptkb:Folger_Shakespeare_Library_copy private collections British Library copy Huntington Library copy John Rylands Library copy Meisei University copy Victoria and Albert Museum copy
gptkbp:notableSale	Christie's auction 2020
gptkbp:numberOfTracks	36
gptkbp:owner	gptkb:Henry_Clay_Folger gptkb:Meisei_University gptkb:British_Library gptkb:John_Rylands gptkb:Paul_Allen gptkb:Victoria_and_Albert_Museum gptkb:Bodleian_Library gptkb:Huntington_Library private collectors
gptkbp:precededBy	quarto editions
gptkbp:publicationDate	1623
gptkbp:publisher	gptkb:Edward_Blount gptkb:Isaac_Jaggard gptkb:William_Jaggard
gptkbp:significance	first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays
gptkbp:title	gptkb:Mr._William_Shakespeares_Comedies,_Histories,_&_Tragedies
gptkbp:市值	over $6 million (as of 2020s)
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:First_Beaumont_and_Fletcher_folio
gptkbp:bfsLayer	7