by Andrea Mays
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Shakespeare Stolen and Reclaimed: The Story of the Durham First Folio. The Grolier Club of New York, March 31, 2011. One-hour-and-30-minute presentation with moderator Stephen C. Ennis and panel members Richard Kuhta and Stephen C. Massey. http://vimeo.com/23048931.
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Sotheby’s. The Shakespeare First Folio, 1623: The Dr. Williams Library Copy. July 13, 2006. Research by Peter Selley and Dr. Peter Beal. The special hardcover edition of Lot 95, printed in addition to the regular auction catalogue.
Spielmann, M. H. The Title-Page of the First Folio of Shakespeare’s Plays: A Comparative Study of the Droeshout Portrait and the Stratford Monument. London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924.
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West, Anthony James. “How Many First Folios Does the Folger Hold?” Shakespeare Quarterly 47, no. 2 (Summer 1996): 190–194.
________. “In Search of Missing Copies of the Shakespeare First Folio.” Book Collector 43 (1984): 396–407.
________. “A Model for Describing Shakespeare First Folios, with Descriptions of Selected Copies.” Library (6 series) 21 (1999): 1–49.
________. “The Number and Distribution of Shakespeare First Folios, 1902 and 1995.” Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography 9 (1995): 1–23.
________. “Ownership of Shakespeare First Folios over Four Centuries.” Library 10, no. 4 (2009): 405–408.
________. “Proving the Identity of the Stolen Durham University First Folio.” Library 14, no. 4 (December 2013): 428–440.
_________. “Sales and Prices of Shakespeare First Folio: A History, 1623 to the Present.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 92, no. 4 (1998): 465–528, and 93, no 1. (1999): 74–142.
_________. The Shakespeare First Folio: The History of the Book, Volume I; An Account of the First Folio Based on Its Sales and Prices, 1623–2000. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
________. The Shakespeare First Folio: The History of the Book, Volume II; A New World Census of First Folios. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
________. “Why Is the First Folio So Important?” A short video for the Folger Shakespeare Library exhibition Fame, Fortune, and Theft: The Shakespeare First Folio, 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv3WqPVIcYA.
Williams, Owen, and Caryn Lazzuri, eds. Foliomania: Stories behind Shakespeare’s Most Important Book. Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library, 2011.
Williams, Roger M. “The Great First Folio Caper.” Amherst (Spring 2011). https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/magazine/issues/2011spring/firstfolio.
Williams, W. P. “The Shakespeare ‘First Folio’: The History of the Book, vol. 1; An Account of the First Folio Based on its Sales and Prices, 1623–2000.” Notes and Queries 49, no. 2 (2002): 117–118.
Willoughby, Edwin Eliott. A Printer of Shakespeare: The Life and Times of William Jaggard. London: F. Allan, 1934.
________. The Printing of the First Folio of Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1932.
Wilson, Frank P. “The First Folio of Shakespeare.” Times Literary Supplement 5 (November 12, 1925): 756.
________. “The Jaggards and the First Folio of Shakespeare.” Times Literary Supplement 5 (November 1925): 737.
Wood, E. R. “Cancels and Corrections in A Discovery of Error, 1622.” Library (5th series) 13 (1958): 124–127. Accuracy of Jaggards printing.
The Life, Times, and Works of Shakespeare
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Sams, Eric. The Real Shakespeare: Retrieving the Early Years, 1564–1594. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1995.
Schoenbaum, Samuel. Shakespeare and Others. Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1985.
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