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File Size: 8870 KB
Print Length: 369 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (May 12, 2015)
Publication Date: May 12, 2015
Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc
Language: English
ASIN: B00LD1S4BM
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Being passionate about Shakespeare and an European transplanted to the States, I was curious about Folger and his library, so I decided to order the book. I really enjoyed every page of it! The first chapters are mostly about how the First Folio was conceived and published, with lots of interesting technical details and historical information. Homage is duly paid to Heminges and Condell, the two fellow-players and close friends of Shakespeare to whose loyalty and insight we owe the survival of the Bard's works today. Even if you are not particularly interested in history, these pages are easy to read,informative and interesting. The rest of the book is about Henry and Emily Folger's obsession for everything Shakespeare. The purchases of real treasures, like the Vincent First Folio, are described as a gripping tale of suspense... However, part of me could not help but feel sorry for England, depleted of so many precious books that are now only available in Washington. I had the impression that the author was a bit biased in favor of Folger, who was certainly a great business man but who was perhaps a little too possessive with his books. Still now, it seems, his wife Emily is the only person who was allowed to actually borrow from the library. In conclusion, the book was a very interesting and informative read, and you don't need to be a scholar or a student to enjoy it. It made me even more eager to see the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Surely, William Shakespeare, returned from the grave, would be less shocked by jet airplanes than by his renown in a world peopled by a huge number of humans far removed from his world. His genius is at the root of his fame, but he might be much less well remembered but for dedicated contemporaries who sought to ensure the survival of his work by means of the First Folio. This is the story of the book and it's most successful collector.One important point the author makes clear is that virtually every copy is unique as a result of how the books were created and their subsequent histories. The core of Henry Folger's collection mania was to possess every copy. Incredibly, the library he created contains about 42 percent of the known copies. His compulsive collecting makes for exciting reading cataloging his successes, setbacks and occasional failures. Gracefully written and based on impressive knowledge of the people and times involved, this is a delightful book.
Andrea Mays sets the stage meticulously. The first chapters of her book are spent explaining the way Shakespeare's works came to be printed and compiled in the first place. Then we learn about the whole printing business - boy, oh boy! And how folios or pamphlets came about and the whole attribution business and whatever happened to those old volumes to be replaced by something newer (was that a bust!). After we are sufficiently grounded in the nuts and bolts of publishing, we learn all there is to know about Henry Folger, an unlikely hero, who rose from almost having to leave Amherst for lack of money to the pinnacle of the Standard Oil empire. Together with his wife Emily, Folger spent enormous sums buying everything remotely connected with Shakespeare - First Folios were Folger's particular soft spot. Andrea Mays explains nicely in her Epilogue why Folger's buying, acquiring, secreting away in rented warehouses does not rise to the level of hoarding - probably because he spent a lot more on these books and stored them off-site. The next section of the book describes the planning and building of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, the same single-minded pursuit of the goal he used in his business dealings - to found a repository for all Shakespeare (and related) material (in particular the First Folios) in Washington D.C. Finally, the summary and conclusion - only here do we hear a word from the keen biographer. Yes, profits generated with Standard Oil stock made this library possible, but why sweep Folger's work under the rug? I loved this book - the many different characters are coming to life - the English gentleman, the bookseller with a motive, hungry heirs, and golf playing associates. Read all about it!
If you love books you've probably fantasized about having significant income with which to pursue your passion. And if you've ever collected any rarity--fine art, baseball cards, coins--you've also fantasized about discovering the next Big Thing, the rarity that no one else yet values highly. Henry Folger lived both of those fantasies and Mays's excellent book puts the reader in the middle of his quest to build a world-class collection. I strongly agree with other reviewers who said this book was a page-turner. And, like some other reviewers, I was put off by the author's view of Folger's and Rockefeller's business dealings, which is naïve at best; but reviewers who said they stopped reading as a result must read very little. I read a great deal of history and rarely agree with everything I read, but I'm not afraid to read contrary points of view. In fact, that's probably the healthiest kind of reading. The author's defense of Folger's business practices is a sidebar to the main focus of the book. Ignore it and enjoy one of the most fascinating stories you'll ever read. You'll be glad you did.
An interesting, well researched, and favorable history of the man who assembled the books, manuscripts, and other treasures now contained in the Folger Shakespeare Library. How William Shakespeare's plays were first preserved; how Henry Folger made his money in the oil business; how book collectors went about their pursuits in the early part of the last century; and how Mr. and Mrs. Folger arranged to have built for our our nation the fine institution that now sits on Capitol Hill are all interwoven threads of this fine tapestry of a tale.I found this book to be superior to that of last year's effort on the same general subject by Stephen Grant.My wish for Professor Mays' second book would be a collaborative effort with her husband, a fine Lincoln scholar, on the influence of William Shakespeare on Abraham Lincoln.
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