The cast is here at the invitation of the City of London Corporation. Also ranged around a long wide table are various other editions of Shakespeare, a couple of quartos of Othello and Henry IV part 2, the much rarer Third Folio of 1664 incorporating extra titles (most copies were burned in the Great Fire two years later). Though all valuable, the priciest is the First Folio. An inferior copy recently went under the hammer for over $5 million. An original bound edition cost £1 (a wholesale copy cost 15 shillings). Many copies survive – the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC houses 79 – but only a few remain in mint condition. Five are deemed to be the best in the world. This, given to the City of London Corporation in 1918, is one of them.