Found a copy of the First Folio Shakespeare’s plays published in 1623 – LaRepública.pe

 London. EFE. A copy of the First Folio, a book containing the collection of 36 plays of William Shakespeare (1564-1616), has been found in a mansion on the island of Bute, in eastern Scotland, British media reported.

 

 The book, whose original name was Comedies, Histories and Tragedies of William Shakespeare, was abandoned in the library of Mount Stuart House, residence of the Marquis of Bute, and was identified as authentic by Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespearean Studies U. Oxford.

 

 Published in 1623, the First Folio met most of the plays of the writer. According to the expert, this copy belonged to Isaac Reed, an editor working in London in the eighteenth century and bought the First Folio in 1786.

 

 Other documents indicate that Reed copy sold in 1807 to one “JW”, but then lost. Smith estimated that Mount Stuart bought this copy of the First Folio between 1807 and 1906.