Shakespeare but no will

“EVERY auction house’s dream” is how Rupert Powell, managing director of Bloomsbury Auctions, described the discovery of a Shakespeare First Folio that will provide a fitting centrepiece for the company’s 500th sale on Thursday October 7.

The previously unrecorded copy of perhaps the most important book in English literature, the 1623 is…

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