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Michael Dobson: Shakespeare’s First Folio, 15 November 2001
The Shakespeare First Folio: The History of the Book Vol. I: An Account of the First Folio Based on Its Sales and Prices, 1623-2000
by Anthony James West.
Oxford, 215 pp., £70, April 2001,0 19 818769 6 Show More
by Anthony James West.
Oxford, 215 pp., £70, April 2001,
“... been sufficiently difficult to decipher for the publishers to commission the professional scribe Ralph Crane to prepare fresh transcripts, and even these were sometimes misread during typesetting. Judging from this, from Shakespeare’s signatures on legal documents, and from the few holograph pages we have of his scriptwriting (part of his contribution to ... ”