Folger Finds: A carved oak casket for holding a Shakespeare First Folio

This casket, part of the Folger collection along with the First Folio it originally housed, has now been included in the online exhibition Making History: Shakespeare and the Royal Family, a project of Shakespeare in the Royal Collection.

Shakespeare in the Royal Collection is a three-year AHRC-funded research project led by King’s College London, in collaboration with Birkbeck University of London and The Royal Collection Trust, investigating the Shakespeare-related holdings in the Royal Collection and Royal Archives, 1714–1945, and providing new information about a broad range of objects created, collected, and displayed by generations of members of the royal family.

You can take a guided tour of the oak casket on the exhibition website, and you can learn more about the history of the Burdett-Coutts First Folio (now stored separately from the casket) on the Folger website.