Talk:First Folio

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[edit] Quarto link

The quarto link in the first paragraph of the article leads nowhere useful. It ought either to be dropped, or else a suitable article about Shakespeare's Quartos should be added

-Gerdthiele 06:51, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Brandeis

I am fairly certain that I recently saw the First Folio in a display case at the British Library in London, so I am skeptical that Brandeis has the only copy, which the text of this article implies. On the Brandeis site, it is written that Brandeis owns only one of 230 copies. I don't know whether there is one that is definitvely more original than the others, but it seems incorrect to only mention Brandeis in this article. I've removed the Brandeis reference.

-Stephen (64.50.95.2) 23:31, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

i am afraid, stephen, that you are mistaken. the article claims that there were 1000 first folios, and that 5 belog to the british library. you are thinking about the Quarto version. hope this is helpful.

nicholas! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.157.82.24 (talk • contribs) 10:16, 11 October 2006

[edit] More about the content would be good

The First Folios have:

The Jonson preface

The "Mr WH" dedication

Hemynge and Cordell as publishers

... and successors in the second and third folios, which are equally important.

I'm writing this from memory... can't we add in some of these detail (accurately!) between us? —Preceding unsigned comment added by BenPlouviez (talk • contribs) 23:17, 21 April 2006