For nearly a century, a swashbuckling-style pair of gloves rested in a reliquary in the University of Pennsylvania library.

Among the several rare volumes now on display in the Widener Memorial Room is Shakespeare's First Folio, the most valuable book in the Harvard College Library. His Second, Third, and Fourth Folios ...

But today he’s remembered for being one of the earliest known owners of the first published collection of Shakespeare’s dramas. In fact, he bought not one but two copies of these First Folios ...

Mr William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, now known as the First Folio, was published in 1623, seven years after his death. Its more expensive 900-page format implied that these ...

A copy of Shakespeare's First Folio has sold in New York for $2.4m (32m). Published in 1623, seven years after the Stratford-upon-Avon writer's death, it features 36 manuscripts. They include 18 ...

In 1623, Shakespeare’s plays were published together for the first time as a printed collection, known as the First Folio. To mark 400 years since the occasion, the Folio Society has published his ...

The King and Queen hosted an evening to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio at Windsor Castle. Charles and Camilla took front row seats to watch extracts by actors and ...

The frontispiece of the First Folio of William Shakespeare's plays (Image taken from facsimile version of Shakespeare’s First Folio, courtesy of the Library of Birmingham) In the early 1610s ...

The Guildhall Library stands where the folio's editors, Shakespeare's friends Henry Condell and John Heminges, once lived, and opposite the churchyard where they were buried. The First Folio ...

On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio, rare originals are being displayed and publishers are offering collectors editions of Shakespeare’s plays, including one that sells for ...