{"id":2463,"date":"2010-06-20T17:32:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T00:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/06\/raymond-scott-accused-of-stealing-one-of-the-most-important-printed-works-in-the-english-language\/"},"modified":"2010-06-21T17:37:15","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T00:37:15","slug":"raymond-scott-accused-of-stealing-one-of-the-most-important-printed-works-in-the-english-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/20\/raymond-scott-accused-of-stealing-one-of-the-most-important-printed-works-in-the-english-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Raymond Scott accused of stealing one of the most important printed works in the English language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5iybh3XBGozJtVAUTu0PVZKsq58iQD9GCD1I80\" target=\"_blank\">from AP via Google News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Flashy book dealer in limo for Shakespeare trial<\/h1>\n<p>(AP)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thenorthernecho.co.uk\/resources\/images\/942291\/?type=display\" align=\"right\" height=\"387\" width=\"240\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/>LONDON \u2014 A flashy British book dealer accused of stealing a rare first edition of Shakespeare&#8217;s plays appeared for trial Wednesday in a silver limousine, sporting a Panama hat and flashing victory signs at reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond Scott was accused of stealing the 1623 folio from England&#8217;s Durham University in 1998. The 53-year-old was arrested after a man took the volume to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, claiming he found it in Cuba and asking for verification that it was genuine.<\/p>\n<p>Scholars consider the folio one of the most important printed works in the English language.<\/p>\n<p>He arrived Wednesday at northeastern England&#8217;s Newcastle Crown Court in a silver Chrysler 300.\u00a0For an earlier court appearance, he wore a kilt and came in a horse-drawn carriage led by a Scots piper.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5iybh3XBGozJtVAUTu0PVZKsq58iQD9GCD1I80\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at Google News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from AP via Google News Flashy book dealer in limo for Shakespeare trial (AP) LONDON \u2014 A flashy British book dealer accused of stealing a rare first edition of Shakespeare&#8217;s plays appeared for trial Wednesday in a silver limousine, sporting a Panama hat and flashing victory signs at reporters. Raymond Scott was accused of stealing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}