A study in scarlet
Date1888
Names
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
(author)
Doyle, Charles Altamont
(illustrator)
Ward, Lock & Co.
(publisher)
Holmes, Sherlock
(subject)
Format
Blue cloth, red spine label ; bound without wrappers or ads ; housed in a custom blue cloth slipcase.
First edition in book form, second impression. First separate edition. Includes a publisher's preface and six original illustrations by the author's father, Charles Doyle. Cf. De Waal, Robert Burt. The world bibliography of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
Medium
Extent
- 8 unnumbered pages, 169 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
ProvenanceBookplates of Gilbert C. Elliot, the 6th Marquis of Donegall, and S.L. Courtland to endpapers; Purchased 2024 ; Type Punch Matrix.
Purchased with the help of The Friends of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection.
CollectionArthur Conan Doyle Collection
Usage Rights
Public Domain
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Call Number / Accession Number37131181236340D
Dewey Number823.91 D598 1888
approximately 1890
approximately 1890
approximately 1890
