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First Folio: The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare | On Tour From The Folger Shakespeare Library

“Thou art a monument without a tomb,
And art alive still, while thy book doth live,
And we have wits to read and praise to give.”

—Ben Jonson, 1623


Credits:

James Boaden, An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Various Pictures and Prints of Shakespeare, 1824. Cosway binding from 1928 with miniatures by Miss C.B. Currie. Folger Shakespeare Library

Louis François Roubiliac. Bust of Shakespeare. Marble, eighteenth century. Folger Shakespeare Library.

Unknown artist after the Chandos portrait. Shakespeare signboard. Oil on panel, late 1600s to early 1700s. Folger Shakespeare Library.

Facsimile of one of William Henry Ireland’s forgeries, a primitive portrait of Shakespeare. Published for Samuel Ireland, Norfolk Street, Strand, Dec. 1, 1795.