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Auction archive: Lot number 12

SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616

Estimate
US$4,000,000 - US$6,000,000
Price realised:
US$9,978,000
Auction archive: Lot number 12

SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616

Estimate
US$4,000,000 - US$6,000,000
Price realised:
US$9,978,000
Beschreibung:

SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the True Originall Copies. Edited by John Heminges (d. 1630) and Henry Condell (d. 1627). London: Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount at the Charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley, 1623. A fine and complete copy of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays The most important book in English literature and an icon of world literature The First Folio uniquely preserves eighteen of Shakespeare's plays This is the first complete copy to be offered at auction since 2001 Only five complete copies are known in private hands Accompanied by an autograph letter dated 1809 by the great Shakespeare scholar Edmond Malone, attesting to its cleanness and authenticity

Auction archive: Lot number 12
Auction:
Datum:
14 Oct 2020
Auction house:
Christie's
King Street, St. James's 8
London, SW1Y 6QT
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7839 9060
+44 (0)20 73892869
Beschreibung:

SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the True Originall Copies. Edited by John Heminges (d. 1630) and Henry Condell (d. 1627). London: Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount at the Charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley, 1623. A fine and complete copy of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays The most important book in English literature and an icon of world literature The First Folio uniquely preserves eighteen of Shakespeare's plays This is the first complete copy to be offered at auction since 2001 Only five complete copies are known in private hands Accompanied by an autograph letter dated 1809 by the great Shakespeare scholar Edmond Malone, attesting to its cleanness and authenticity

Auction archive: Lot number 12
Auction:
Datum:
14 Oct 2020
Auction house:
Christie's
King Street, St. James's 8
London, SW1Y 6QT
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7839 9060
+44 (0)20 73892869
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