385-year-old stolen Shakespeare edition recovered

A 385-year-old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England a decade ago, valued $30 million (€18.86m), has been recovered after a man walked into a library in Washington and asked to have it authenticated.

Police in Durham, northeast England, said yesterday they had arrested a 51-year-old man over the theft of the First Folio edition of 1623, which scholars consider one of the most important printed books in the English language.

It was among seven centuries-old books and manuscripts stolen in December 1998 from a display case at the Durham University library.