{"id":719,"date":"2008-07-13T07:58:03","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T14:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/07\/folio-cornholio-at-the-folger\/"},"modified":"2008-07-13T08:00:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T15:00:28","slug":"folio-cornholio-at-the-folger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/13\/folio-cornholio-at-the-folger\/","title":{"rendered":"Folio Cornholio at The Folger"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Washington Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Missing Shakespeare Knocks on Folger’s Door<\/strong><\/font>
\nEnglish Book Dealer Arrested in Theft
\nBy David Montgomery and Mary Jordan
\nWashington Post Staff Writers
\nSaturday, July 12, 2008; A01<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

The man dressed a little flashy for a rare-book guy. British accent. He picked Monday, June 16, to go to the library — the\u00a0Folger Shakespeare Library<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Capitol Hill<\/a>. No warning, no appointment. Out of his bag, he pulled an old book. Flimsy, no binding, big pages. Said he wanted the Folger book detectives to check it out.<\/p>\n

\"firstfolio.png\"Could it be genuine 400-year-old\u00a0Shakespeare<\/a>? he wondered.<\/p>\n

Funny he should ask.<\/p>\n

So begins the final chapter of the antiquarian police procedural that ended yesterday across the ocean in Durham, England, with the arrest of a 51-year-old book dealer in the theft 10 years ago of a volume of Shakespeare’s collected plays, published in 1623 and worth about $2.5 million, as appraised by the Folger.<\/p>\n

The copy of the famous First Folio — cited by scholars as perhaps the most important printed edition in the English language — had been lifted from\u00a0Durham University\u00a0<\/a>in northeast England.<\/p>\n

The Folger’s sleuthing determined that the old book was genuine all right — and as hot as a pawned diamond tiara.<\/p>\n

Shakespeare fans and rare-book lovers on both sides of the pond hailed the break in the case. Students of human behavior could only scratch their heads.<\/p>\n

Why would someone bring a stolen Shakespeare to the place where the theft was most likely to be detected? Folger has the largest collection of printed Shakespeare, including 79 of the 230 First Folios known to exist.<\/p>\n

Did he not know it was stolen? Was he trying to get the Folger people to authenticate it so he could sell it here, not knowing that everyone in Shakespeare world was on the lookout for the notorious “missing Durham First Folio”?<\/p>\n

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from The Washington Post Missing Shakespeare Knocks on Folger’s Door English Book Dealer Arrested in Theft By David Montgomery and Mary Jordan Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, July 12, 2008; A01 The man dressed a little flashy for a rare-book guy. British accent. He picked Monday, June 16, to go to the library — the\u00a0Folger […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","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=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}