Charlton Hinman's The Printing and Proof-Reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare is our authority for the order in which the Folio pages were printed. The order is conveniently summarized in volume II, 514-8.

Given below is a graphical representation of what Hinman discovered. In the table below the left-most column lists the quires or pages in the Folio in the order in which they were printed. If all the pages in a quire were printed together (not necessarily in reading order) then for brevity only the quire name is given; otherwise the pages are individually listed. The top-most row lists the Folio plays in the order in which they appear in the book. Coloured cells map the quires/pages to the play(s) printed on them.     indicates what Hinman called a regular quire/page.     indicates what he called an intercalary page (these were underlined by him in his summary).

If the quires had been printed in the order in which we read them, the table below would have shown a straight diagonal line from top-left to bottom-right. This is almost the case for the comedies. But there was considerable disruption in the printing of some histories and tragedies, as made visible below by the extent to which the coloured cells fail to approximate to a diagonal line.

Hinman does not discuss the quires and pages in the Folio in the order in which they are read, nor in which they were printed; nor does he discuss one quire or one play in one section. Below is a supplementary index to his book, to make it easier to find his analysis of particular quires, pages or plays.