Shakespeare's First Folio

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Charles E Pierce Jr, First Folio Follies; Scholars, bibliophiles and thieves will go to odd lengths to get one of the 232 known copies of the 1632 edition of Shakespeare's plays. Wall Street Journal, Nov 7, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 10341351494810.html
(book review on Eric Rasmussen, The Shakespeare Thefts; In search of the First Folios. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)

Note:
(a) William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
(b) Ben Jonson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Jonson
(1572-1637)
(c) playhouse (n): "THEATER"
www.m-w.com
(d) First Folio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Folio
(Printed in folio format and containing 36 plays; Although eighteen of Shakespeare's plays had been published in quarto prior to 1623, the First Folio is the only reliable text for about twenty of the plays, and a valuable source text even for many of those previously published. The Folio includes all of the plays generally accepted to be Shakespeare's, with the exception of Pericles, Prince of Tyre and The Two Noble Kinsmen, and the two "lost plays", Cardenio and Love's Labour's Won.)
(e)
* folio (printing)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folio_(printing)
* folio (n): "a sheet of paper folded once"

The English word is derived from Latin folium leaf. Compare another English noun foliage.

(e) For Paul Getty, see John Paul Getty, Jr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Getty,_Jr.
(1932-2003; a wealthy American-born British philanthropist and book collector; the elder son of Jean Paul Getty, Sr. (1892–1976); The Getty family's wealth was the result of the oil business founded by George Franklin Getty; At birth he was given the name Eugene Paul Getty, but in later life he adopted and was better known by the names Paul Getty, John Paul Getty, Jean Paul Getty, Jr. and John Paul Getty II; A long-time Anglophile,[2] Sir John became a British citizen in 1997)
(f) The "habit" in "habits of composition" is a noun that means:
"bodily appearance or makeup <a man of fleshy habit>"
(g) Chapin Libary of Rare Books, Williams College
http://chapin.williams.edu/history/history.html
("Alfred Clark Chapin graduated from Williams College in 1869 and from Harvard Law School in 1871. A successful lawyer")
(h) The "flog" in "flog the great book on the black market" means:
"1a : to beat with or as if with a rod or whip
* * *
3a chiefly British : to sell (as stolen goods) illegally <flogged their employers' petrol to ordinary motorists — Economist>
b : SELL <traveled by horse, flogging encyclopedias — Robert Darnton>"  
(i) The book review talked about "Theseus describes in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'"

A Midsummer Night's Dream
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream
( Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta.)