{"id":690,"date":"2021-01-20T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folio400.com\/?post_type=phernalia&p=690"},"modified":"2021-05-25T15:56:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T14:56:16","slug":"every-six-years","status":"publish","type":"phernalia","link":"https:\/\/folio400.com\/phernalia\/every-six-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Six Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
In 2002, Lilian Frances Cottle of Tottenham, North London died intestate and a tattered copy of the Shakespeare First Folio was found among her effects.\u00a0<\/p>
In 2008, an unemployed, self-described \u2018fantasist\u2019 named Raymond Scott walked into the Folger Shakespeare Library with a copy that he claimed to have acquired from one of Fidel Castro\u2019s bodyguards. The First Folio in question turned out to have been stolen from Durham University, and the flamboyant Scott \u2013 who arrived at his trial in a horse-drawn carriage, dressed in all white, holding a cigar in one hand and a cup of instant noodles in the other, reciting lines from Shakespeare\u2019s Richard III<\/em> \u2013 was convicted of the theft and imprisoned.<\/p> Six years later, in 2014, Remy Cordonnier, a librarian in St. Omer, France, identified a mis-catalogued collection of Shakespeare\u2019s plays as an original First Folio. The book had been housed in the library of the Jesuit College of St. Omer for centuries before being inherited by the town\u2019s public library. But because it was lacking the title-page and had no identifying title on the binding, it had long been assumed that it was a relatively worthless reprint, until Cordonnier took an interest in the volume and called me in to authenticate it.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t