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Among the several rare volumes now on display in the Widener Memorial Room is Shakespeare's First Folio, the most valuable book in the Harvard College Library. His Second, Third, and Fourth Folios may also be seen...
...would hardly fill a single shelf of the ordinary stacks, have been examined by the college librarians since the announcement in June of the edition. Their findings give point to their assay of the gift. Of the forty-four separate editions of Shakespeare which were published before the First Folio of 1623, Harvard now possesses one-half. There were nine plays in the first "collected" edition, printed in 1619. Harvard, due to the generosity of Mrs. White and her children, has eight of these...
...Quarto editions of Shakespeare are especially valuable, since they are nearer to the poet himself in point of time than the familiar Folio editions, which were published after his death. The Quartos went to press during Shakespeare's own lifetime...
...total number of known copies of any single volume in no case exceeds 40. Hitherto the Harvard Library has owned only three of them. Apart from their scarcity, these editions derive their chief value from the fact that they are contemporary with the author himself, while the famous First Folio was published after his death. The text of the Quartos is not always accurate, but it contains the most curious and suggestive differences from the Folio texts and is of great value to scholars...
...second folio is dated 1632. It is open at the page which lists the names of the actors in Shakespeare's company of players. Among these names is that of the famous Richard Burbage for whom part of Macbeth was written. It is to two other members of the troupe that the world is indebted for having collected their leader's plays and published them in polio form. The other two folios on exhibition are dated...