Research Catalog

Title

The Shakespeare thefts : in search of the first folios / Eric Rasmussen.

Author

Rasmussen, Eric, 1960-

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2011.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Subject

• Rare books
• Book collecting
• Thieves
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Plays. First Folio > History

Genre/Form

• History
• Rare books.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A literary detective story -- The most hated man in England : the Gondomar copy -- First Folio hunters -- A Cuban fraud : the Durham University copy -- The waiting is the hardest part -- Unrecovered : the Manchester University copy -- The Pope's sticky fingers -- A close personal relationship : the Pembroke copies -- Nationalism, bullets, and a recovered treasure -- The bibliomaniac : the Sir Thomas Phillipps copy -- Looking into Shakespeare's eyes -- Fell in the weeping brook : the Fiske Harris copy -- Got to get ourselves back to the garden -- The King's companion : Royalist copies, Puritan copies -- A literary thief, a bootlegger, a shoe salesman, and Hitler : the Williams College copy -- Why is 'The Whore of Babylon' well thumbed? -- Alienated : the Hereford Cathedral copy -- Creative control -- "Purloined & embezzled" : the William Beeston copy -- The world's worst stolen treasure -- Appendix. The making of the Shakespeare First Folio.

ISBN

• 9780230109414
• 0230109411

LCCN

2011028287

OCLC

• 706021013
• SCSB-12195903

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library