William Shakespeare’s First Folio

One of the 235 copies in existence calls �ڰ�� Library home.

April is the month William Shakespeare was born, and the month he died, and a time when some institutions are marking the 400th anniversary of the First Folio—the first published collection of Shakespeare’s plays, seven years after his death.

Of the 750 copies of the First Folio printed in 1623, only 235 are known to survive. One, given to �ڰ�� as part of a bequest from Allerton Hickmott, Class of 1917, and his wife, Madelyn, is housed in the .

Plans are underway to celebrate the folio at �ڰ�� in the fall.