The Shakespeare First Folio: The History of the Book Volume II: A New World Census of First Folios

ISBN-13: 9780198187684 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 442 str.

Anthony James West

Opis

This major reference book for Shakespeare scholars and bibliographers is in the second part of the story of "the greatest book" in the English language. Listing 228 copies of the First Folio, the Census gives concise descriptions of each, covering condition, special features, provenance, and binding. It traces the search for copies, deals with doubtful identifications, describes the tests for inclusion, and presents details of missing copies.

Recenzje

Review from Volume I: An amazing piece of scholarship ... West's study is the first comprehensive study of the book as book and as cultural object. One wonders why we had to wait nearly four centuries for such a study.