Word: folios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private collector in modern times has ever assembled a Shakespeare library* to compare with Dr. Rosenbach's. Beginning in 1907, when he bought his first First Folio for about $18,000, "Rosy" Rosenbach has taken everything that came in sight. He bought all four folios of the collected plays published between 1623 and 1685. He paid close to $75,000 for a splendid, mint-condition copy of the First Folio, and $21,000 for a first edition (1600) of Much Ado About Nothing. His Troilus and Cressida, dated 1609, is the only known uncut copy of any play published...
...Audubon published his magnum opus, "Birds of America." His determination to represent even the largest birds in life size dictated the folio's enormous dimensions, 39 1-2 by 29 1-2 inches. As a result the book is referred to as the double elephant edition...
...Cottrell considers the folio, which contains 435 hand-colored plates, an excellent example of the art of aquatint. In 1833 a group of faculty members bought a 87-part subscription to the book. Mr. Cottrell estimates "that a set might now be worth at least...