The adventures of Sherlock Holmes. / By A. Conan Doyle.
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859-1930).
Category
Books
Date
1892
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085515
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 317, [1] p. : ill. ; 8vo., 25 cm. Pencil tick on front free endpaper verso. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial crest bookplate: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late nineteenth- / early twentieth-century half blue morocco, blue cloth over boards; sewn onto three recessed cords; five false bands; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' and 'Conan Doyle'; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers. Original cloth wrappers bound in at end. Binder's ink stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Bayntun. Binder. Bath. England.'.
Makers and roles
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859-1930)., author Sidney Edward Paget (1860-1908), illustrator