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The millionaire and the bard : Henry Folger's obsessive hunt for Shakespeare's first folio / Andrea E. Mays.
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Date published
2015
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Publisher
New York : Simon & Schuster, [2015].
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Contributors
Mays Andrea E as Author,
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Subject
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930.
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Accession number
83428329
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Class
95.41 Folger/MAY
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Physical description
xvi, 350 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Contents: Prologue: He was not of an age, but for all time -- The good that men do is...interred with their bones -- Adieu...Remember Me -- Whatever you do, buy -- My Shakespeare, Rise -- Had I the Money, You Would Come... -- Had I the means, I would not hesitate to buy -- The Most Precious Book in the World -- A Shakespeare Discovery -- Do devise some way to get the books -- Will You Give Me the First Choice? or, The False Folio -- I am an American -- Portrait of a Collector -- Thou Art a Moniment, Without a Tombe -- It is the Key of our Hearts -- Epilogue.