To share your thoughts and ideas about this digital facsimile, or to write a guest blog post, get in touch with us: shakespeare@bodleian.ox.ac.uk, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. And see the fully-digitised copy, shelfmarked Arch. Without this book, the famous ‘First Folio’, eighteen of Shakespeare’s plays – including Julius Caesar and Macbeth – would probably be lost to us. G … It was first published in … // -->. The first phase of the Bodleian First Folio project, to conserve the book, photograph it, and publish the images freely online, was funded, with grateful thanks, by donations from the public. A full Tables of Contents links to each scene. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Without this book, the famous ‘First Folio’, eighteen of Shakespeare’s plays – including Julius Caesar and Macbeth – would probably be lost to us. The Bodleian Libraries hold two copies of the first folio edition of Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (1623). Smith, Steven Escar. Looks great on Kindle Fire and Tablet. This Treasure isn’t currently on display in the Weston Library. Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies is the 1623 posthumously published collection of William Shakespeare's plays, and is commonly referred to as the First Folio. Accessibility A Funding Campaign: Sprint for Shakespeare HELP US OPEN THE BODLEIAN’S FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS TO THE WORLD Shakespeare’s First Folio is one of the greatest treasures in the Bodleian collection, and we would like your help opening it up for anyone anywhere in the world to enjoy exploring its pages. They are preserved here, in the first printed edition of the collected works, published after Shakespeare’s death. The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio from Bodleian Library Publishing. The Bodleian's First Folio is unique in not having been rebound or restored in almost four centuries since it was first received by the library late in 1623. Thanks to the generosity of the public, the successful funding campaign Sprint for Shakespeare led to the conservation, digital imaging, and online publication of images of the Bodleian copy of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays (http://shakespeare.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/). Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies is a collection of plays by William Shakespeare, published in 1623, commonly referred to by modern scholars as the First Folio. The first Bodleian shelfmark had been torn from the bottom of the title page. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2015. Welcome to the Bodleian First Folio website, where you can view the digital facsimile online, and find out more about this treasured book, Shakespeare, his plays, and how we conserve, curate and digitize books. This is the copy of the First Folio that was acquired by the Bodleian soon after publication, in accordance with the agreement with the Stationers’ Company. Pip Wilcox, Curator of Digital Special Collections, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the 2016 DHOXSS on Shakespeare's First Folio, held by the Bodleian. This second phase of the Bodleian First Folio project has been made possible by a lead gift from Dr Geoffrey Eibl-Kaye and generous support … document.write("URL: "+location.href) (Also listen to the Folger's Shakespeare Unlimited interview with Smith about this book.) The book is far from rare. Smith, Emma. First Folio home page Smith, Emma. Without the First Folio, 18 plays might have been lost forever. The Bodleian First Folio is a rarity for not having been re-bound since it was first donated to the library in 1623. In the 1660s it left the Library and was lost from view until 1905, when an undergraduate from Magdalen College brought a tattered copy of an early Shakespeare Folio into the Library for advice on its binding. Shakespeare's First folio, 1623; Bay Psalm Book, 1640. The display helps visitors learn more about Shakespeare’s life and times as well as the significance of the First Folio as a literary artefact, without which many important works such as Macbeth , and Julius Caesar may have been lost to us today. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book. A supplement to the reproduction in facsimile of the first folio edition (1623) from the Chatsworth copy in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire, K.G. The library ‘appears to have sold it at some point in the late 1660s, perhaps having replaced it with the new, improved, edition, the Third Folio, … A full Tables of Contents links to each scene. The First Folio is the first printed anthology consisting of 36 of Shakespeare’s plays, many of which had never been printed before it was published as a Folio in 1623. The First Folio is the first printed anthology consisting of 36 of Shakespeare’s plays, many of which had never been printed before it was published as a Folio … A Gutenberg Bible, c. 1455, one of only 21 surviving complete copies. The volume left the library in the 1660s and was returned after the exceptional response to a public … See http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ for more information. (Also listen to the Folger's Shakespeare Unlimited interview with Smith about this book.) Looks really great on Kindle Fire, tablet, android, iPad, phone, etc. Some 235 copies are known to survive, and new ones continue to come to light to this day. The library holds daily guided tours. The showcase, entitled 'Shakespeare in Print: The First Folio', gives residents and visitors of Singapore a chance to see a copy of the work for the first time. Some 235 copies are known to survive, and new ones continue to come to light to this day.