William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies.”ĭering has the distinguished claim of being the earliest recorded purchaser of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays. He also bought two copies of a book that had only recently hit the shelves-a large, expensively-bound tome entitled “Mr. There he bought two playbooks, a book in Latin and a book of Ben Jonson’s plays. Paul’s Cross Churchyard, London’s main bookselling hub. 5, 1623, a fashionable young man-about-town called Sir Edward Dering visited St.
A page from a copy of Shakepeare’s First Folio, shown before a 2016 auction.
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