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