The First Folio of Shakespeare

Short Reviews

prepared by Charlton Hinman. The Norton Facsimile, Norton, $75.00, boxed. Much scholarship and elaborate machinery have reproduced the Folio text as it presumably would have been if the original publisher had copy-edited in advance instead of correcting as he went. Besides being useful to students and persons addicted to arguing over quotations, the book is a handsome monster, measuring 10 by 141/2 by 3 inches and weighing 12 pounds 4 ounces. The Falstaffe Folio.

Illustrations are from Who Was Van Gogh? Text by Jean Leymarie, translated from the French by James Emmons. (Skira, $10.00). They are reproduced by permission of the publishers.