First Folio Monument, London

While technically this pink granite monument topped with a bust of Shakespeare, in the former churchyard of St Mary Aldermanbury on Love Lane, commemorates the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, it also serves as a memorial to the two of the Bard's henchmen, Henry Condell and John Heminges, actors who had worked with him in The Globe Theatre and who, after his death in 1616, were instrumental in collating and printing the book. Both men lived in the St. Mary Aldermanbury parish and were buried in its churchyard.

The monument was built in 1896. By the time of Shakespeare's death, 18 of his plays had already been published, so the First Folio included those plus another 18 previously unpublished, thus totaling 36. The works not featured in the First Folio are Pericles, Prince of Tyre, The Two Noble Kinsmen, as well as the two lost plays, Cardenio and Love's Labour's Won.