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Author Rasmussen, Eric, 1960-
Title The Shakespeare thefts : in search of the First Folios / Eric Rasmussen.
Publication Info Houndmills : Palgrave Macmillan, c2011.


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Descript xv, 212 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents A Literary Detective Story -- The Most Hated Man in England: The Gondomar Copy -- First Folio Hunters -- The Cuban Fraud: The Durham University Copy -- The Waiting is the Hardest Part -- Unrecovered: The Manchester University Copy -- The Pope's Sticky Fingers -- A Close Personal Relationship: The Pembroke Copies -- Nationalism, Bullets, and a Recovered Treasure -- The Bibliomaniac: The Sir Thomas Phillipps Copy -- Looking Into Shakespeare's Eyes -- Fell in the Weeping Brook: The Fiske Harris Copy -- Got to Get Ourselves Back to the Garden -- The King's Companion: Royalist Copies, Puritan Copies -- Obsessed -- A Literary Thief, a Bootlegger, a Shoe Salesman, and Hitler: The Williams College Copy -- Why is The Whore of Babylon Well Thumbed? -- Alienated: The Hereford Cathedral Copy -- Creative Control -- "Purloined & Embezzled": The William Beeston Copy -- The World's Worst Stolen Treasure.
ISBN 9780230109414 (hbk.)
0230109411 (hbk.)
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Author Rasmussen, Eric, 1960-
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Rare books.
Book collecting.
Theft.
Thieves.
Descript xv, 212 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents A Literary Detective Story -- The Most Hated Man in England: The Gondomar Copy -- First Folio Hunters -- The Cuban Fraud: The Durham University Copy -- The Waiting is the Hardest Part -- Unrecovered: The Manchester University Copy -- The Pope's Sticky Fingers -- A Close Personal Relationship: The Pembroke Copies -- Nationalism, Bullets, and a Recovered Treasure -- The Bibliomaniac: The Sir Thomas Phillipps Copy -- Looking Into Shakespeare's Eyes -- Fell in the Weeping Brook: The Fiske Harris Copy -- Got to Get Ourselves Back to the Garden -- The King's Companion: Royalist Copies, Puritan Copies -- Obsessed -- A Literary Thief, a Bootlegger, a Shoe Salesman, and Hitler: The Williams College Copy -- Why is The Whore of Babylon Well Thumbed? -- Alienated: The Hereford Cathedral Copy -- Creative Control -- "Purloined & Embezzled": The William Beeston Copy -- The World's Worst Stolen Treasure.
ISBN 9780230109414 (hbk.)
0230109411 (hbk.)
Author Rasmussen, Eric, 1960-
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Rare books.
Book collecting.
Theft.
Thieves.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL 6th Floor  PR 3071 R2  8 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Rare books.
Book collecting.
Theft.
Thieves.
Descript xv, 212 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents A Literary Detective Story -- The Most Hated Man in England: The Gondomar Copy -- First Folio Hunters -- The Cuban Fraud: The Durham University Copy -- The Waiting is the Hardest Part -- Unrecovered: The Manchester University Copy -- The Pope's Sticky Fingers -- A Close Personal Relationship: The Pembroke Copies -- Nationalism, Bullets, and a Recovered Treasure -- The Bibliomaniac: The Sir Thomas Phillipps Copy -- Looking Into Shakespeare's Eyes -- Fell in the Weeping Brook: The Fiske Harris Copy -- Got to Get Ourselves Back to the Garden -- The King's Companion: Royalist Copies, Puritan Copies -- Obsessed -- A Literary Thief, a Bootlegger, a Shoe Salesman, and Hitler: The Williams College Copy -- Why is The Whore of Babylon Well Thumbed? -- Alienated: The Hereford Cathedral Copy -- Creative Control -- "Purloined & Embezzled": The William Beeston Copy -- The World's Worst Stolen Treasure.
ISBN 9780230109414 (hbk.)
0230109411 (hbk.)
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