Short answers, pulled from the story.
William Shakespeare died in Stratford-upon-Avon on the 23rd of April 1616. His colleagues John Heminges and Henry Condell decided to compile his plays into a single volume about seven years after his death.
The printing syndicate included Edward Blount and the father-son team of William Jaggard and Isaac Jaggard. William Jaggard was old, infirm, and blind by 1623 when the project began and he died just one month before the book went on sale.
The Tempest was set into type from a manuscript prepared by Ralph Crane. The Two Gentlemen of Verona also came from another transcript by Ralph Crane and Measure for Measure probably used another Ralph Crane transcript as well.
Only 235 copies are known to remain today out of an initial print run of about 750. More than one third of these surviving copies sit at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., which holds a total of 82 First Folios.
A copy sold by Mills College at Christie's fetched $10 million in October 2020. This second sale made it the most expensive work of literature ever auctioned.