A copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio has been discovered at a stately home on a Scottish Island, just in time for the 400th anniversary of his death.
(The book contains 36 of the bard’s plays, and was published in 1623, seven years after his death. It brought together the majority of his plays for the first time, without which there would be no copies for more than half of them, including Macbeth and The Tempest.
The book had been in the library of Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute for more than 100 years, and was confirmed as genuine by Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford University.
It’s quite a find, as a previous copy sold for £2.8m in 2006.)