| Record ID: |
2032303 |
| Format: |
Regular Print Book |
| Physical description: |
324 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm. in case, 23 x 15 x 4 cm. |
| Date acquired: |
April 27, 2018
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| More creator details: |
Arthur Conan Doyle ; introduced by Richard Lancelyn Green ; selected by Joe Whitlock-Blundell ; illustrated by Francis Mosley. |
| General note: |
Green pictorial hardcovers tooled in black; title and author's name on upper cover and spine gilt, with subtitle and silhouette of Holmes with pipe tooled in black against gilt background set within a magnifying glass; dark green slipcase plain. |
| General note: |
One of the TPL Special Collections' copies has gilded edges and fore-edge painting with Sherlockian scenes and a bookplate signed and dated (2017) by the artist, "MMXVII Martin Frost". |
| General note: |
One of the TPL Special Collections' copies has gilded edges and fore-edge painting with Sherlockian scenes and a bookplate signed and dated (2018) by the artist, "MMXVIII Martin Frost". This copy does not come with a case. |
| Contents note: |
Introduction -- The adventure of a scandal in Bohemia -- The adventure of the man with the twisted lip -- The adventure of the blue carbuncle -- The adventure of the speckled band -- Silver Blaze -- The naval treaty -- The adventure of the Priory School -- The adventure of the golden pince-nez -- The adventure of the Bruce-Partington plans -- The disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax -- The adventure of the devil's foot. |
| Access restriction: |
FOR USE IN SPECIAL COLLECTIONS READING ROOM ONLY. THERE MAY BE OTHER COPIES THAT CIRCULATE. |
| Contributor: |
Blundell, Joe Whitlock, compiler.
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| Contributor: |
Frost, Martin (Book artist), fore-edge artist.
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| Contributor: |
Green, Richard Lancelyn, author of introduction.
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| Contributor: |
Mosley, Francis, illustrator.
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| Contributor: |
Folio Society (London, England) |
