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The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel6d
Set of Shakespeare folios to be sold in rare London auction
The third is the rarest of the folios, with many copies believed to have been lost in the Great Fire of London in 1666. The sequence was completed with the Fourth Folio in 1685. Generations of ...
Japan Today5d
Set of Shakespeare folios to be sold in rare London auction
The third is the rarest of the folios, with many copies believed to have been lost in the Great Fire of London in 1666. The sequence was completed with the Fourth Folio in 1685. Generations of ...
CNN5d
Rare set of first editions of Shakespeare’s plays could fetch $6 million at auction
It is believed the third book’s rarity is because some of the stock was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. The Third Folio included seven additional plays, but only one ...
London Evening Standard6d
Shakespeare folios expected to fetch more than £3.5m at auction
It is believed the third book’s rarity is because a proportion of stock was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. Born in 1564, Shakespeare is considered one of the UK’s greatest ...