Must visit the library

We have been planning to pop into our local village library today, but imagine coming across something like this.
A Shakespeare First Folio has been discovered in a library in a small French town where it lay undiscovered for two centuries.

It is only the second known copy in France of a publication that is seen as one of the most valuable books in the English language and which can sell for millions on the rare occasions a copy comes up for auction.

The librarian in the northern town of Saint-Omer, near Calais, said he came across the book in September when he was selecting books for an upcoming exhibition on historic links between the local region and England.

“It was sitting on a shelf alongside other books by English authors,” Rémy Cordonnier, who runs the library’s rare books collection, told the Telegraph.
A First Folio edition fetched £2.8million at auction in London in 2006. Another sold for 5.6 millions dollars en 2001 in a Christie’s sale in New York.
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