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The first volume is a mine of information filled with tables, charts, appendices, and just about all a student could want for getting into the history of the First Folio's afterlife. Review, 25 I believe West's study of the First Folio will become, when completed, a model of how one does post-publication book history. I look forward with anticipation to the next three volumes. Review, 25 The first volume of 'The First Folio Series' provides much information, but it also whets our appetite for the next volumes. If West means to go on as he has started then these four volumes will become the most comprehensive study of any single edition of a secular author ever produced. Shakespearians and book history scholars should immediately get it on their shelves. Notes and Queries An amazing piece of scholarship ... West's study is the first comprehensive study of the book as book and as cultural object. One wonders why we had to wait nearly four centuries for such a study. Notes and Queries In addition to providing a thorough and well-documented study exploring condition, pedigree, annotation, and prices of the first folio, West also provides extensive information f
The first volume is a mine of information filled with tables, charts, appendices, and just about all a student could want for getting into the history of the First Folio's afterlife. Review, 25 I believe West's study of the First Folio will become, when completed, a model of how one does post-publication book history. I look forward with anticipation to the next three volumes. Review, 25 The first volume of 'The First Folio Series' provides much information, but it also whets our appetite for the next volumes. If West means to go on as he has started then these four volumes will become the most comprehensive study of any single edition of a secular author ever produced. Shakespearians and book history scholars should immediately get it on their shelves. Notes and Queries An amazing piece of scholarship ... West's study is the first comprehensive study of the book as book and as cultural object. One wonders why we had to wait nearly four centuries for such a study. Notes and Queries In addition to providing a thorough and well-documented study exploring condition, pedigree, annotation, and prices of the first folio, West also provides extensive information f