![]() ![]() Its new owner will possess literary history.” “We’re proud to present this original copy of a first folio fragment of Shakespeare’s The First Part of Henry the Fourth. ![]() ![]() “The possibility of owning a piece of the most important literary work extant is a once-in-a lifetime opportunity,” said the auction house’s president Fred Holabird. Officially titled The First Part of Henry the Fourth, with the Life and Death of Henry Sirnamed Hot-Spurre, it consists of 13 printed antique paper pages and is one complete play in the two-part production of Henry IV. The fragment has been valued at $50,000-$100,000 (£36,000-£73,000) by Holabird Western Americana Collections, which will auction it on 29 October. The first part of Henry the Fourth in an original 1623 copy of Shakespeare’s first folio Photograph: Holabird Western Americana Collections ![]()
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