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    Browse all of the First Folios available through this site. You can apply custom filters to refine your search.

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    Alternatively, you can also browse the digitised copies of Shakespeare’s First Folio in this site by contributing institution. For those who have provided multiple digitised copies, click on the institution thumbnail below to see all the Folios available. You will also find more information about each First Folio's unique history and provenance by clicking on the thumbnails below.

    Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections

    This copy was gifted by Sir George Grey to the Auckland Public Library in 1894. Missing pages are supplied in facsimile. Evidence of 17th-century ownership is found in this copy.

    Bodleian Libraries

    This copy was first received by the library in 1623 as part of the agreement that Thomas Bodley made with the Stationers’ Company in 1610 and returned to the Bodleian in 1906.  

    Boston Public Library

    The Boston Public Library copy is 'one of the most beautiful'. It belonged to Thomas Pennant Barton and was sold to the library by his widow, Cora Livingston.

    Brandeis University

    The Brandeis University’s copy was disbound in 1998 and is still preserved in this state today. It was presented to Brandeis University in 1961 by Allan I. Bluestein.

    British Library

    Click on this thumbnail to view the British Library's three digitised First Folios.

    Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries

    This copy was used in an exchange between Colonel Charles Clifton and Henry Clay Folger, who provided the latter with the Gilburne copy in 1920.

    Craven Museum & Gallery

    This copy was incorrectly catalogued when it first came to the museum in 1936 and was thought to be a Second Folio until 2003, when Anthony West identified it as a First Folio.

    Dulwich College

    This is a fragmented copy which includes the Histories, nine out of fourteen Comedies and none of the Tragedies, except for six leaves of Romeo and Juliet.

    Durham University

    This copy was stolen in December 1998 and later recovered in July 2008, when the copy was brought to the Folger Shakespeare Library for authentication and valuation.

    Folger Shakespeare Library

    Click here to view the Folger Shakespeare Library's 23 digitised First Folios.

    Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

    This copy was owned by Augustin Daly, a major figure in American theatre. He built and owned the Daly’s Theatres of New York and London and directed various productions of Shakespeare’s plays.

    John Rylands Research Institute and Library

    This copy, as attested by a manuscript note found in the volume, was used by Lewis Theobald in 1733 for his edition of Shakespeare’s works.

    King's College Cambridge

    This copy has been owned by King’s College since 1850 and is now stored together with several items, notably a news article from The Times celebrating the First Folio’s 300th anniversary.

    The Library of Birmingham

    In this copy, K3 appears twice in Much Ado about Nothing: one is conjugate with K4 and the other one is a half sheet of just K3.

    National Library of Scotland

    This copy interestingly contains a cluster of state 1 variants on multiple pages, which is rather uncommon in a tight cluster.

    Royal Shakespeare Company

    The Royal Shakespeare Company’s copy was accidentally stolen by Pope Paul VI in 1964. It returned to the RSC 'presumably unblessed'.

    The Saint-Omer Library

    This incomplete copy was rediscovered in 2014 in the Library of Saint-Omer. It is believed that it came from the English Jesuit college of Saint-Omer’s collection.

    Shakespeare's Globe

    This copy is commonly known as the Munro copy and is on display at Shakespeare’s Globe. It notably contains early readers’ signatures and initials, and other marks by early readers.

    State Library of New South Wales

    This is the only known copy housed in Australia. It was donated to the State Library of New South Wales by the brothers Richard and George Tangye.

    Trinity College Dublin

    This well-loved, heavily annotated copy has lots of distinguishing marks, including a paw print.

    University of British Columbia

    This copy is well-travelled and was once the property of Antarctic explorer Apsley Cherry Garrard.

    The University and City Library of Cologne

    This copy was once owned by A. Edward Newton. Its history of successive sales is a good example of the value that the First Folio acquires throughout the years.

    University of Leeds Libraries

    This copy was once owned by Theodore N. Vail, the inventor of 'Fast Mail' and the general manager of American Bell Telephone Company. It later joined Lord Brotherton’s large collection.

    Württemberg State Library

    This copy was once owned by Frederick Perkins, a rare books collector. This is also the copy that Martin Bodmer traded for Rosenbach’s Shakespeare Collection.

    Metadata only records

    Click into the thumbnails below to view the metadata and IIIF Manifest URLs for First Folios that are hosted on other websites.

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    Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

    This copy has 26 hand-drawn facsimile pages, which distinguishes it from other copies.

    Fondation Bodmer

    This copy is considered to be one of the very best extant ones. A going-away party for this copy was organised for the copy before it went to Switzerland when Martin Bodmer acquired it.

    Carnegie Mellon University Libraries

    This copy contains watermark anomalies which suggest that it contains leaves inserted from another copy. In 1936, it set a new price record for the public sale of a First Folio.

    Miami University Libraries

    This copy was donated to Miami University in 1949 as part of a complete set of the four Shakespeare folios by Dr. Fisher. It used to be owned by Chandos Leigh. 

    Yale University Library

    This copy was used to create the facsimile edition published by Yale. It was later purchased by Alexander Smith Cochran who founded the Elizabethan Club to which he gifted this volume.

    University of Toronto

    This copy has been referred to as the ‘rosebud copy’ because of the impression left from a long-ago pressed rosebud. 

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