The Millionaire and the Bard

Henry Folger’s Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare’s First Folio

• Author(s): Andrea Mays,
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster
• Pages: 350
• ISBN_10: 1439118256
  ISBN_13: 9781439118252
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Antiques & Collectibles / Books , Biography & Autobiography / General , Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General , Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures , Biography & Autobiography / Rich & Famous , DRAMA / Shakespeare , Language Arts & Disciplines / Publishers & Publishing Industry , Literary Criticism / Shakespeare , Reference / Bibliographies & Indexes ,

Description:... "Today it is the most valuable book in the world. Recently one sold for over five million dollars. It is the book that rescued the name of William Shakespeare and half of his plays from oblivion. The Millionaire and the Bard tells the miraculous and romantic story of the making of the First Folio, and of the American industrialist whose thrilling pursuit of the book became a lifelong obsession." --