One folio alone is worth approximately $1 million dollars, according to Swain. Haley, and it is significant that West Chester University has been able to acquire a complete set of the folios. There are approximately only one-third of the folios left that were originally printed by Heminge and Condell, according to Dr. The Library Director, Dick Swain, introduced the history of the folio to the students and remained present during the viewing of the folios along with the Special Collections Library director, Tara Wink. He was present at the event, and was as excited to see and touch the folios as the students were. Carter Haley, a specialist on Shakespeare, come speak to students about Shakespeare in celebration of Shakespeare’s birthday this April. The English club received a grant to have Dr. Carter, and they are kept in the Folder Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. There are only 15 complete, perfect copies in existence, according to Dr. Also, as time passed and the folios grew in value, people began to restore poorly cared for folios by tearing out pages from other editions and adding them to their folio to keep it complete. Hence, the folios have inconsistent margins adding to the uniqueness of the folios.Įach new edition of Shakespeare’s folio that was published was meant to fix prior errors and add additional plays, but sometimes more errors were created. Because the book was bound after printing, the bookbinder had to fit the book to the cover. Only after the folios were published were they bound. The folios consist of Shakespeare’s plays printed on paper. Critics argue that Condell and Heminge did little editing and were instead focused on collecting the best copies of Shakespeare’s plays available. The folios are a collection of Shakespeare’s plays that were collected by his peers, Henry Condell and John Heminge, who did not want his work to be forgotten. The university owns the four complete sets of folios, and even has two copies of the third folio. Students were encouraged to touch, page through, and take photos of the five folios that West Chester University has acquired as a gift from William Pyle Philips in memorial of Frances Harvey Green. Scandate 20090526154225 Scanner Tuesday West Chester University displayed their collection of Shakespeare’s folios in the Special Collections Library at 7:30 p.m on behalf of the English club and Dr. Special Collections assumes no responsibility for direct, indirect, consequential, or incidental infringement of copyright by content users. For questions regarding use of digital materials contact Special Collections or 61). For the above purposes the user may reproduce these materials (by download, printing, etc.) without further permission, on the condition that proper attribution of the source for all copies is provided by clearly acknowledging the name of the Library, the title of the web page or resource and the URL at which it was located, please credit as follows: Special Collections, Francis Harvey Green Library, West Chester University, West Chester, Pennsylvania. Images are provided for non-commercial, educational, and personal use only, and are not intended for reproduction or redistribution. Addeddate 16:29:45 Alt_title West Chester State College Bulletin, Graduate Announcement 1962-63 Camera Canon 5D Foldoutcount 0 Identifier westchesterst1962west Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t07w6sp15 Locationġ962-1963 Number 4 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Page-progression lr Pages 57 Ppi 400 Rights Digital images in Library Services' Digital Collections are issued by Special Collections, Francis Harvey Green Library, West Chester University.