A copy of William Shakespeare's first folio sold for a record $9.98 million ($ 7.6 million) at auction in New York.
The 1623 book, published seven years after
Bard's death, was the first collected edition of his plays.
There are approximately 23,235 copies of
this book, but only a handful of full versions are in private hands.
The edition sold on Wednesday was the
first complete copy to go under the hammer since 2001 when one received it.$ 6.1
million (£ 4.9 million) - the previous record.
It was sold’ by Mills College, Oakland,
California - a private college that has owned it since the 1960s. The identity
of the buyer was not immediately’ known’.
Christie's auction house in the
traditional style priced at 4 m-. Estimated between 6m.
The first folio collected 36 plays, of
which 18 were recorded’. Without its publication, there would be no copy of
dramas such as Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, and The Tempest.
There are 235 copies, most of which are
known to be incomplete. One, owned by Oxford University, sold for $3.5 million
in 2003. Five or six full versions are thought’ to be in private hands.
READ MORE
Uhuru Kenyatta summoned parliamentary leaders to the State House
0 Comments