The Works

The Works (Shakespeare's plays and poems)
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How many copies of the First Folio still exist?
The original edition of William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, published in 1623 probably consisted of a print-run of about 1,000 copies from which between 230 and 240 survive today, mostly in academic libraries around the world. Of these fewer than 20 are complete and undamaged copies.

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