"It seems hard to imagine now that the Bard is as much a part of British history as Beefeaters and Dickens, but seven years after his death the actors of Shakespeare's company feared he would be forgotten.
So they put together the first printed versions of his complete plays – which fresh off the press in 1623 changed hands for £1. Now a copy has arrived on loan to York University, valued at £2.5m.
It is one of two historical literary texts loaned anonymously to the university's library and archives department, making them available to researchers for the first time in more than 40 years."

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