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Folio #58
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The Scissors Copy
open to The Tempest
At the Folger, I'm known as Folio number 58, or the "scissors" copy. My seventeenth-century owner or binder left a pair of scissors in my pages, and you can still see its rusty traces today. Henry and Emily Folger purchased me in 1910 for $3,060. At the time, I was considered an "unrecorded" Folio since I did not appear in Sidney Lee's Census of the Shakespeare First Folios (1902).
My first page and my title leaf are missing. These and the last two leaves of the play Cymbeline were supplied in facsimile. I also contain leaves from other First Folios throughout my Tragedies section. |