When was the first folio of Shakespeare published?
First Folio
Jean-Christophe Mayer, in The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's First Folio (2016), estimates the original retail price of the First Folio to be about 15s (equivalent to £136in 2018) for an unbound copy, and up to £1 (equivalent to £181in 2018) for one bound in calfskin.[lower-alpha 9] In terms of purchasing power, "a bound folio would be about forty times the price of a single play and represented almost two months’ wages for an ordinary skilled worker."[34]