scarce book containing 36 plays published in 1623 had been in library at Mount Stuart on Isle of Bute for more than 100 years A copy of Shakespeare’s first folio – a book containing 36 of his plays published seven years after his death – has been discovered at a stately home on a Scottish island.
The book,which has languished in the library of Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute for more than 100 years, was confirmed as genuine by Emma Smith, or professor of Shakespeare studies at Oxford University.
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Source: theguardian.com