The memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. / By A. Conan Doyle. Illustrations by Sidney Paget.
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859-1930).
Category
Books
Date
1894
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085516
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 279, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 8vo. 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): 'Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes' and 'Conan Doyle'; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers. Binder's ink stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'C.J. Sawyer Ltd. 12 Grafton St. W.'.
Makers and roles
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859-1930)., author Sidney Edward Paget (1860-1908), illustrator