Worthy Project — Digitising the 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare’s Plays, The Guardian

The Bodleian appeals to the public for funding support to digitise the rarest of rare books, a tattered treasure that was disposed of as a ‘duplicate’ in 1664 and bought back for £3000, raised from the public, in the early-20th century:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/aug/02/bodleian-shakespeare-first-folio-online