This year the award will go posthumously to the recently deceased poet, novelist and book collector Gerrit Komrij. The First Folio is the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays and the foundation of Shakespeare’s enduring legacy and reputation. English professor Katharine Maus called it priceless. On Saturday, October 6 at 3.00 pm Rovers will present the Boudewijn Büch-Prize, awarded to someone who has brought antiquarian books to the attention of a large audience. The Shakespeare First Folio is one of the most valuable printed books in the world U.Va. Without it, we wouldn’t even be talking about Shakespeare, says Emma Smith, a Shakespearean scholar at the University of Oxford and the author of Shakespeare’s First Folio: Four Centuries. Since 2011 she is working on the biography of the bibliophile writer and television producer Boudewijn Büch, for which she has gained exclusive access to his archives. It is evident that the First Folio, 1623, was intended by his fellows at the Globe to. These stories have their meeting point in one specific object: the valuable book known as Shakespeare’s First Folio, published 400 years ago in 1623. The book contains a near-complete collection of the bard's plays. A Record of the Ancestors and Descendants of William Shakespeare. First Folio este referirea prescurtat la prima ediie (cea princeps, dar i a tipriturilor ulterioare ale aceleiai arje) a pieselor dramaturgului englez William Shakespeare, aprut în 1623, la apte ani dup moartea Marelui Bard. In 2010 Rovers published a widely acclaimed and award-winning biography of art collector Helene Kröller-Müller. Four hundred years after it was first printed, Shakespeare's First Folio is up for sale for 7.5 million. Sotheby’s Seven years after William Shakespeare’s death in 1616, two of the. In addition, book foundations, bibliophile organizations and magazines will present their work, as for example: Bijzondere Collecties UvA, Boekenpost, De Boekenwereld, Museum Meermanno, Nederlandse Boekhistorische Vereniging, Uitgeverij De Buitenkant and the Vereniging Nederlandse Handboekbinderijen.Įva Rovers, biographer of Boudewijn Büch, will open the 33rd edition of the Amsterdam Antiquarian Book, Map & Print Fair on Friday, October 5 at 1.45 pm. Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent JThis copy of the First Folio is one of fewer than 20 in private hands. 30 ILAB dealers from the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, United Kingdom and the United States will present rare and valuable books, manuscripts and ephemera from all centuries. A new printing of this fascinating book, in celebration of the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeares First Folio. Read the article “ Bidding ‘Fare Thee Well’ to Shakespeare’s First Folio at UVA” ( UVA Today, ).This year’s Amsterdam Antiquarian Book, Map & Print Fair will be held on Friday, October 5 and Saturday, October 6 in the Passenger Terminal Amsterdam. The main gallery will reopen on Monday, October 31, and the Library exhibition will remain up through December 29, 2016. The Tempest by William Shakespeare was given the pride of place as the opening title in the First Folio of 1623. Deepen your understanding of his works and their cultural influence. The Main Gallery will be closed from Thursday, October 27–Saturday, October 29 while the current exhibition “ Shakespeare by the Book: Four Centuries of Printing, Editing, and Publishing” is reinstalled. Discover Shakespeare’s stories and the world that shaped them. Interim senior director of the Harrison-Small Research Center Carla Lee says that, since the First Folio arrived on October 1st, more than 1,800 people have come to see the book that preserved 18 plays for which there is no earlier source. The First Folio-the first collection of Shakespeare’s plays to appear in print-has left the main exhibition gallery of the Harrison/Small Special Collections building today, and is now traveling to its next venue, one of the four priceless volumes the Folger Shakespeare Library has touring the United States to mark the 400th year since Shakespeare’s death in 1616.Īccording to UVA Today‘s article “Bidding ‘Fare Thee Well’ to Shakespeare’s First Folio at UVA” the public’s response to the tour has been very positive.
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