with the preparation of the respective cable partners for the next 90 minutes we will explain the literary life in history of this california city. we begin our feature on pasadena and surrounding area with the huntington library. today we are at the huntington library. this is originally a ranch. and henry huntington discovered that, like the beautiful scenery the mountains to the north, mild climate. he bought a property here and began to improve it. that was in the early 20th century. henry huntington was a remarkable man. a great land developer, people to he built railway and a tramway. it was about more than that he did both. he would buy property in an outlying area. he would develop it and run the railway cars to get people there. and we d always been interested in book collecting. but he bought in somewhat conventional ways. he bought sets of great authors then began to get going around 1911 with book collecting. he began to buy whole libraries. and he just begin
congratulations on it. guest: thank you. coming for me that s praise indeed traded. host: you are kind indeed. talk about the subtitle in your book if i may quote henry folger s obsessive hunt for shakespeare s first folio. i think it might be helpful originally to talk about these two men the context of their times. of course they were defying me two men both alike in dignity to quote from shakespeare but separated by 400 years and the atlantic ocean very different that they shared one thing, a shakespeare wrote his plays seven years after he died. two of his friends decided to create a memorial volume to him and collected all of that they had available and published 36 have been known 38 plays that shakespeare had written and the two men are connected across time and across the ocean and it s the book that saved half of shakespeare s plays from obscurity became a fetish object for collectors and henry folger chairman of the editorial company wanted to own every known co
a fantastic book and i enjoyed it thoroughly. it s a page-turner a thrilling adventure permanently accessible. congratulations on it. guest: thank you, coming from you that is praise indeed. host: talk about the subtitle of your book if i may quote henry folger s obsessive hunt for shakespeare s first folio but i think it might be helpful originally to talk about those two men in the context of their times. of course if i made they were two men look alike in dignity quoting from shakespeare and yet separated by 400 years and the atlantic ocean very different that but they share one thing, a passion for in one case writing and the other collecting but put them in the context of their lives if you would please. guest: sure. shakespeare was writing around the 1600 s. his life was 20 years before, 20 years after the 1600. during the rain of elizabeth and james the first. he was a well-known playwright poet. he wrote sonnets and he was also a businessman. here is a sharehold
to talk about the two men in the context of their times. of course they were two men both alike in dignity and yet separated by 400 years in the atlantic ocean. but they shared one thing, a passion for collect the good but to put them in the context of their lives if you lead, please. sure, shakespeare was writing around the 1600s. his life was 20 years before, 20 years after the 1600. during the reign of elizabeth and james the first he was a well-known playwright poet. he wrote sonnet and he was also a businessman. he was a shareholder in london and land owner very well-known known is time for being a playwright and businessmen. henry folger was the chairman of the board of the largest corporation in the world at the time as well during the gilded age. shakespeare wrote these plays years after he died two of his friends decided to create a memorial volume and collected all of the 36 nodes 38:00 p.m. the two men are connect to across time and notion in the book is saved fr