The University of British Columbia has added a very valuable book to its library, and you can bet students won’t be writing notes in the margins of this one.
The school has acquired a complete first edition of William Shakespeare’s Comedies Histories and Tragedies — a rare collection of 36 of the famous Bard’s known 38 plays. Also known as the First Folio, the book was published in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare’s death and is edited by his close friends and fellow writers and actors.
Katherine Kalsbeek, head of rare books and special collections at UBC Library, felt that, with so few copies left in private hands, the library
