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The American Who Saved Shakespeare: Henry Folger’s First Folio Quest

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One coffee heir rounded up most of the surviving copies of the Bard’s earliest works. In Andrea May’s new book, the story of Henry Folger’s obsession with rescuing the genuine article.

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