About The Bodleian First Folio
The Bodleian First Folio is a digital facsimile of the First Folio containing 36 plays by William Shakespeare, printed in folio format and published in 1623, it is the first collected edition of Shakespeares plays.
You can find out more about this book's remarkable history, the campaign, and the work that led to its digitisation by accessing the free resources of the 'Bodleian copy of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays.' We highly recommend exploring this resource.
 All images/texts of the first folio we use in producing your free Shakespeare at Home activities are Images/text taken from The Bodleian First Folio: digital facsimile of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, courtesy of Oxford University. 
A facsimile of the title page from the First Folio dated 1623 with an engraving of William Shakespeare's portrait. printed on parchment which appears beige with all page content printed with dark ink.
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