Word: folios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Londoners who happened to spot the notice in the Daily Advertiser one day in 1747, it must have seemed less an announcement than a boast: "There is now preparing for the press, and in great forwardness, in two volumes in folio, an English dictionary; etymological, analogical, syntactical, explanatory, and critical." Who could have undertaken such a gargantuan task? In 1755. when the two volumes came out, the world became aware that Samuel Johnson would forever be famous as Dictionary Johnson...
...WILLIAM SHAKESPEARES COMEDIES, HISTORIES & TRAGEDIES (889 pp.; Yale University; $12.50) is a handsome facsimile edition of the famous First Folio of Shakespeare's plays (only Pericles is missing), "published according to the True Originall Copies...
Called Baseball in Music and Song, the folio contains 14 reproductions of spirited polkas, quadrilles, marches and ballads from the middle to late 1800s, all dedicated to the glorification of baseball...
...contains between seven and eight million volumes on 64 miles of shelves. It receives everything published in Britain and its colonies, from poetry anthologies to comic books (about 37,000 new volumes a year, plus 162,540 single copies of newspapers). Among the treasures: eight copies of the first folio edition of Shakespeare's plays; the original articles placed before King John at Runnymede in 1215; the menu for the coronation banquet of Henry IV (1399); the manuscript of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, inscribed as "a Christmas gift to a dear child in memory...
Farjeon took his purist's text from the First Folio (1623) and Quarto editions, made his bow to modernizing scholars by offering the best of their changes in the page margins. For the average reader, there was one catch. Farjeon's Nonesuch Shakespeare came in seven volumes at $200 a set, and only 1,600 sets were printed. They have long since become collectors' items. Now the Nonesuch is back in a new, beautifully bound and printed edition, this time not limited, and priced at a more reasonable $35. The New Nonesuch keeps Farjeon's text...