Sotheby’s auction house announced the sale on Wednesday, Shakespeare’s 461st birthday. It said the May 23 sale will be the ...

which contains 36 of Shakespeare’s plays, and is “the most significant publication in the history of English literature”. It is one of four folios which are due to go on sale at Sotheby’s ...

LONDON — A set of the first four editions of William Shakespeare’s collected ... William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories & Tragedies” — contained 36 plays, of which half were published ...