There are not thousands of copies of the first folio.
Only 1000 were ever printed, and only between 230-240 still exist - and each one is individual from the next, which is how they proved that the book that was stolen was the one from Durham.

I'm not saying that a book is worth more than a life, far from it, by the way, but I am saying that the sentence given to the man for defacing a part of British (and literary) history for personal gain is bang on.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:22, Reply)