With The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes illustrated by Sidney Paget, 1894. With some minor dust soiling and slight rubbing to the cloth and some edge wear, a 1/8Ó tear to the top of the spine, a bit of light foxing to a few preliminary and final pages, else a very good plus copy with just a hint of handling. Hinge barely starting at pages 128 / 129. Front cover and spine blocked and lettered in gilt and black. Original light blue cloth over beveled boards. With 104 illustrations by Sidney Paget throughout. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1892, with no street name on the front cover and "Violent" for "Violet" on page 317 and Òcucaine" for "cocaine" on page 133. Some light soiling to binding (Adventures) with extremities slightly bumped, hinges splitting as usual, occasional foxing, and some light dampstaining to corners of first few leaves (Memoirs) very good copies with Memoirs a particularly bright copy.įirst Editions, First Issues. Illustrated throughout the text by Sydney Paget. Housed in custom marbled paper and cloth chemises with a cloth slipcase bearing design of Sherlock Holmes on two sides. Original pale and dark blue cloth respectively, lettering to spine and front covers in gilt and black, pale grey floral patterned endpapers, top edges gilt.
This is a particularly attractive set, presented with individual chemises and a distinctive slipcase bearing an appropriate picture of the famous detective to both front and rear sides.
There are no corresponding issue points for The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. The textual error continued through three further printings, but from the second impression onwards the street sign was corrected to read "Southampton Street". The first collection, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, is the first issue with the misprint "Miss Violent Hunter" on page 317, and the blank street sign in the vignette to the front cover.
In October 1892 and December 1893 respectively, the original publisher of the Strand Magazine collected together the Sherlock Holmes stories which had originally appeared in the periodical. First edition, first impressions of the first two great collections of Sherlock Holmes stories.
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