The adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Writer:
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Editor:
Smith, Edgar W.
Contributor:
Starrett, Vincent
Illustrator:
Steele, Frederick Dorr
Illustrator:
Paget, Sidney
Publisher:
Limited Editions Club
Designer:
Dwiggins, William Addison
Printer:
Beilenson, Peter
Printer:
Photogravure and Color Company
Binder (person):
Russell-Rutter Company
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; a definitive text, corrected and edited by Edgar W. Smith, with an introduction by Vincent Starrett, and illustrated with a selective collation of the original illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele, Sidney Paget and others
Contents: v. 1. A study in scarlet. The sign of the four.--v. 2. The twelve adventures originally published as The adventures of Sherlock Holmes.--v. 3. The twelve adventures originally published as The memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
3 v. illus. 24 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John
Production date: AD 1950
Cf. Quarto-millenary: the first 250 publications of the Limited Editions Club (New York, 1959), no. 207. "... planned by W. A. Dwiggins ... the composition and the printing of the text were done by Peter Beilenson in Mount Vernon and the reproduction of the illustrations was done by the Photogravure and Color Company in New York. The edition consists of fifteen hundred copies..." Quarter bound in gold-stamped black linen with wallpaper sides with cameo decoration.
Support composed of paper
Accession number: PB 231-2003
Primary reference Number: 95754
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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