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Stuart Hunt, university librarian at Durham, said: "Shakespeare's First Folio is a literary wonder of the world, but only Durham’s First Folio can tell such a unique and powerful story.
Two students studying the Durham First Folio with a Durham University Librarian in the 1930s. (Image: DURHAM UNIVERSITY LIBRARY AND COLLECTIONS) Since the vandalised book was returned ...
The Durham First Folio as it will be displayed at Shakespeare Recovered (Durham University Library and Collections/PA) “The vandalism it sustained left the Folio extremely vulnerable.
The book was stolen from Durham University’s Cosin Library in 1998 and it reappeared at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC 10 years later.