Monday, July 17, 2006

First Folio

The price is a bit steep for a well-thumbed second-hand book with scribblings in the margin.

£2.8 million!

Simon Finch, a London book dealer based in Mayfair, is now the proud owner of a copy of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, published just seven years after the playwright's death in 1623, the Guardian reports.

2 comments:

Poppadumdum said...

And so the Director of the library said, "See, he folio-shly spent so much money on ONE book. I could have built 3 new roofs for the library for that amount of money!"

Ted Mahsun said...

At least the library that sold that Folio can buy those three new roofs! :D