Shakespeare's Syndicate: The First Folio, Its Publishers, and the Early Modern Book Trade

by Ben Higgins

In 1623 a team of stationers published what has become the most famous volume in English literary history: William Shakespeare's First Folio. Who were these publishers and how might their stories be bound up with those found within the book they created? Ben Higgins offers a radical new account of the First Folio by focusing on these four publishing businesses that made the volume. By moving between close scrutiny of the Folio publishers and a wider...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192848844
• ISBN13: 9780192848840
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"