“The most expensive book ever sold at auction”

A 1623 Shakespeare First Folio.

The volume is in its original binding and has the extra attraction of numerous notations. An unknown scholar, probably in the mid-17th century, has underscored or marked hundreds of lines.

Another 17th-century hand, possibly that of a naughty child, has also written something on one page. It reads: “But I desire the readers mouth to kis the wrighteres arse.”