CONAN DOYLE, Arthur. Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and Sign of Four. Preston: James Askew & Son. n.d. circa 1900. Tall 8vo. Pictorial cloth boards lettered in gilt to spine and front board. Frontispiece of Conan Doyle, comprising The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, and The Sign of Four, the three books paginated 1-157; 5-157; 1-124; the first two printed in two columns, the first and third parts with individual frontispieces plus seven plates each; Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes has no plates, perhaps as issued or at least as printed here. Considering, a very good to near fine copy, the cloth gently bumped at the spine head, tail and the corners pushed. The binding tight and square, very firm indeed, with much of the pictorial decoration vibrant. The contents toned throughout from paper stock quality, but without inscriptions. Milton Church, Huddersfield presentation label to the front pastedown dated 1906, with related offsetting to endpapers. Still, a presentable example.
A scarce edition collecting three stories starring Conan Doyle’s famous sleuth. The publishers, Preston-based James Askew and Son, published much of the author’s canon in the first decade of the twentieth century, this the natural standout. Uncommon in such bright condition and with the plates present.
CONAN DOYLE, Arthur. Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and Sign of Four. Preston: James Askew & Son. n.d. circa 1900. Tall 8vo. Pictorial cloth boards lettered in gilt to spine and front board. Frontispiece of Conan Doyle, comprising The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, and The Sign of Four, the three books paginated 1-157; 5-157; 1-124; the first two printed in two columns, the first and third parts with individual frontispieces plus seven plates each; Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes has no plates, perhaps as issued or at least as printed here. Considering, a very good to near fine copy, the cloth gently bumped at the spine head, tail and the corners pushed. The binding tight and square, very firm indeed, with much of the pictorial decoration vibrant. The contents toned throughout from paper stock quality, but without inscriptions. Milton Church, Huddersfield presentation label to the front pastedown dated 1906, with related offsetting to endpapers. Still, a presentable example.
A scarce edition collecting three stories starring Conan Doyle’s famous sleuth. The publishers, Preston-based James Askew and Son, published much of the author’s canon in the first decade of the twentieth century, this the natural standout. Uncommon in such bright condition and with the plates present.
