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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface A Literary Detective Story
One The Most Hated Man in England: The Gondomar Copy
Two First Folio Hunters
Three A Cuban Fraud: The Durham University Copy
Four The Waiting Is the Hardest Part
Five Unrecovered: The Manchester University Copy
Six The Pope’s Sticky Fingers
Seven A Close Personal Relationship: The Pembroke Copies
Eight Nationalism, Bullets, and a Recovered Treasure
Nine The Bibliomaniac: The Sir Thomas Phillipps Copy
Ten Looking into Shakespeare’s Eyes
Eleven Fell in the Weeping Brook: The Fiske Harris Copy
Twelve Got to Get Ourselves Back to the Garden
Thirteen The King’s Companion: Royalist Copies, Puritan Copies
Fourteen Obsessed
Fifteen A Literary Thief, a Bootlegger, a Shoe Salesman, and Hitler: The Williams College Copy
Sixteen Why Is The Whore of Babylon Well Thumbed?
Seventeen Alienated: The Hereford Cathedral Copy
Eighteen Creative Control
Nineteen “Purloined & Embezzled”: The William Beeston Copy
Twenty The World’s Worst Stolen Treasure
Appendix The Making of the Shakespeare First Folio
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Photographs appear between pages 106 and 107
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