Shakespeare First Folios: A Checklist


Books  Let's formalise things.  Since it looks like my latest mad project is going to be looking at all the extant First Folios either in person or on a screen, find after the fold a complete list of all the First Folios in existence as per Eric Rasmussen and Anthony James West's The Shakespeare First Folios: A Descriptive Catalogue.  Their version offers a bit more geographical detail but this list has been simplified for ease of use.  After each location you'll see that they're marked depending on whether the linked blog post talks about a Folio I've seen in the real world [IRL], on screen [TV].  I've also linked to a complete digital version [complete] where available and partial [partial] when it's just a page or two or the binding.  It's unlikely I'll be able to tick all of them off (especially if they're in a vault somewhere), but it's a finite goal.

UNITED KINGDOM

1 Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle

2 Birmingham Shakespeare Library [IRL][complete]

3 King’s College Library [complete]

4 Wren Library, Trinity College

5 Wren Library, Trinity College

6 Cambridge University Library [complete]

7 Durham University Library [complete]

8 Private collection, on deposit with the National Library of Scotland

9 The National Library of Scotland [complete]

10 Eton College

11 Glasgow University Library

12 The Brotherton Collection, Leeds University Library [complete]

13 British Library [IRL][TV]

14 British Library [IRL][TV][complete

15 British Library [complete]

16 British Library

17 British Library [complete]

18 Dulwich College Library [IRL] [complete]

19 Guildhall Library

20 Reform Club

21 Sir John Soane’s Museum [IRL]

22 University of London Library Senate House

23 University of London Library Senate House

24 Victoria and Albert Museum  [IRL]

25 National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum

26 National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum

28 Private Owner

29 The Marquess of Bath

30 John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester [IRL][TV][complete]

218 Christie Library, Manchester University [stolen 1972]

31 Bodleian Library [complete]

32 Bodleian Library [complete] [TV]

33 Mark Getty, Wormsley Library

34 Queen’s College [complete]

35 Wadham College

36 Stonyhurst College [IRL]

37 The Shakespeare Centre

38 The Shakespeare Centre

39 The Shakespeare Centre: Royal Shakespeare Company [TV][complete]

40 The Marquess of Northampton

41 Winchester College

42 The Royal Collection, The Royal Library, Windsor Castle [complete]

43 Private Owner

222 Craven Museum and Gallery [IRL][complete]

173 John Wolfson Shakespeare's Globe

231 Private Owner, Colorado (Shakespeare's Globe) [complete]

The University of Liverpool Folio Pages [IRL]

Shakespeare Birthday Trust Second Folio [IRL]


REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

45 The Library, Trinity College, University of Dublin [complete]


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA & CANADA

27 Private Owner, Virginia

46 The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley [complete]

47 University of California, Irvine

48 Charles Von der Ahe Library, Loyola Marymount University

49 William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles

50 Mills College Private Owner

51 Sutro Library, California State Library

52 Sutro Library, California State Library

53 The Huntington Library

54 The Huntington Library

55 The Huntington Library

56 The Huntington Library

57 Wesleyan College Library

58 Yale University, Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library [complete]

232 Yale University, Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library [complete]

59 Folger 1 [partial]

60 Folger 2 [partial]

61 Folger 3 [partial]

62 Folger 4

63 Folger 5  [complete]

64 Folger 6

65 Folger 7 [partial]

66 Folger 8 [partial]

67 Folger 9 [complete]

68 Folger 10 [complete]

69 Folger 11 [partial]

70 Folger 12 [partial]

71 Folger 13 [partial]

72 Folger 14 [partial

73 Folger 15 [partial]

74 Folger 16 [partial]

75 Folger 17

76 Folger 18

77 Folger 19 [complete]

78 Folger 20 [partial]

79 Folger 21 [partial]

80 Folger 22 [complete]

81 Folger 23 [partial]

82 Folger 24 [partial]

83 Folger 25 [partial]

84 Folger 26 [partial]

85 Folger 27 [partial]

86 Folger 28

87 Folger 29 [partial]

88 Folger 30 [partial]

89 Folger 31 [complete]

90 Folger 32 [partial]

91 Folger 33 [complete]

92 Folger 34 [partial]

93 Folger 35 [partial]

94 Folger 36 [complete]

95 Folger 37 [partial]

96 Folger 38 [complete]

97 Folger 39 [partial]

98 Folger 40 [partial]

99 Folger 41 [partial]

100 Folger 42 [partial]

101 Folger 43 [complete]

102 Folger 44 [complete]

103 Folger 45 [partial]

104 Folger 46 [partial]

105 Folger 47 [partial]

106 Folger 48 [partial]

107 Folger 49 [partial]

108 Folger 50 [complete]

109 Folger 51 [complete]

110 Folger 52 [partial]

111 Folger 53 [partial]

112 Folger 54 [complete]

113 Folger 55 [complete]

114 Folger 56 [partial]

115 Folger 57

116 Folger 58 [complete]

117 Folger 59 [complete]

118 Folger 60 [partial]

119 Folger 61 [complete]

120 Folger 62 [complete]

121 Folger 63 [partial]

122 Folger 64

123 Folger 65 [partial]

124 Folger 66 [partial]

125 Folger 67 [complete]

126 Folger 68 [complete]

127 Folger 69 [partial]

128 Folger 70 [complete]

129 Folger 71 [partial]

130 Folger 72 [complete]

131 Folger 73 [partial]

132 Folger 74 [partial]

133 Folger 75 [partial]

134 Folger 76 [partial]

135 Folger 77 [complete]

136 Folger 78 [partial]

137 Folger 79 [partial]

138 Folger 80

139 Folger 81 [partial]

140 Folger 82 [partial]

141 Georgetown University, Lauinger Library

142 Library of Congress [partial]

143 Library of Congress [complete]

144 The Newberry Library

145 Paul G. Allen Family Collection

145 Private Owner

146 Rare Book and Special Collections Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [complete]

147 Lilly Library, Indiana University

148 Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University

149 The Walters Art Gallery [partial]

150 Boston Public Library [complete]

151 Widener Library, Harvard University [partial]

152 Houghton Library, Harvard University [partial]

153 Brandeis University Libraries [complete]

154 Williams College, Chapin Library of Rare Books

155 University of Nebraska, Lincoln

156 Dartmouth College Library [partial]

157 Firestone Library, Princeton University [complete]

158 The Scheide Library Princeton University [complete]

159 The Scheide Library Princeton University [complete]

160 Buffalo and Erie County Public [complete]

161 State University of New York at Buffalo [complete]

162 Colgate University Case Library

163 Cornell University, Carl A. Kroch Library

164 Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University

165 New York Public Library

166 New York Public Library

167 New York Public Library

168 New York Public Library

169 New York Public Library

170 New York Public Library

171 The Morgan Library and Museum

172 Morgan Library and Museum [S]

174 Miami University [complete]

175 Stuart Rose, Ohio

176 Lehigh University [complete]

177 Bryn Mawr College Mariam Coffin Canaday Library

178 Haverford College [complete]

179 The Free Library of Philadelphia [complete]

180 University of Pennsylvania [complete]

181 Carnegie Mellon University

182 West Chester University [complete]

183 Brown University The John Carter Brown Library

184 Brown University John Hay Library

185 Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin [complete]

186 Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin

187 Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin

188 Dallas Public Library

189 Private Owner [RW]

190 Charles C. Wise, Jr., Library, West Virginia University

191 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto


THE REST OF THE WORLD

44 Private Owner  Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart, Tasmania

192 State Library of New South Wales [complete]

193 Private Owner

194 Bibliothèque Nationale

195 Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin- Preussischer Kulturbesitz

196 Universitäts-und Stadtbibliothek Köln [complete]

197 Württembergische Landesbibliothek [complete]

198 Biblioteca Universitaria [complete]

199 Konan Women’s University

200 Foreign Studies University

201 Meisei 1, The Kodama Memorial Library, Meisei University [partial]

202 Meisei 2

203 Meisei 3

204 Meisei 4

205 Meisei 5

206 Meisei 6

207 Meisei 7

208 Meisei 8

209 Meisei 9

210 Meisei 10

211 Meisei 11

212 Meisei 12

213 Kamijo Family

214 Auckland Central Public Library [complete]

215 South African Library

216 Martin Bodmer Foundation Library and Museum [partial]

217 Private Owner

220 Private Owner

224 Private Owner

225 Private Trust

229 Private Owner

230 Private Owner

xxx The Saint-Omer Library [complete] *


*  Found since the publication of the book.

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