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The History of the World

1614

Auteur: Raleigh, Sir Walter
Titre: The History of the World
Lieu de publication: London
Editeur: Printed [by William Stansby] for Walter Bvrre [, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Crane].
Date: 1614
Langue: English
Nombre de scans: 1620
Type: Print
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Le saviez-vous?

  • that the Bodmer holds the largest collection of early Shakespeare editions outside the Anglophone world? 
  • that the original price for a bound copy of the First Folio when it was first published in 1623 was about £1? 
  • that Bodmer bought most of his Shakespearean books from the American collector A. S. W. Rosenbach in 1951?
  • that the Bodmer contains 24 early modern printed English books which survive in just 10 or fewer copies?
  • more than 230 copies of the First Folio survive, but the Bodmer copy is the only one in Switzerland?