There were many pages the team who acquired the book could have turned to in its display of this beyond-rare new prize in the UBC Library collection.
Of the estimated 235 copies that remain worldwide, there is only one other version in Canada-in Toronto. And looking at it in person, as Stir did this morning, is thrilling-no matter how much you know about the Bard. Measuring about 8.5-by-13 inches, the precious book is at the centre of the just-announced For All Time: The Shakespeare FIRST FOLIO exhibit, presented by the VAG with the UBC Library. On close inspection, the edges of the pages still hold much of their gilded sheen, enclosed in red morocco leather decorated with gold.
Ornate scrollwork adorns the page atop the title in original Elizabethan script: The Tragedie of Macbeth. SET BENEATH A glass case on the fourth floor of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Shakespeare’s 399-year-old First Folio now sits open to the first scene of Macbeth.
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