1905 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding

Rebound in a half crushed morocco binding with cloth to the boards.

'Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes' is the second of Conan Doyle's Holmes stories, following the consulting detective as he solves gripping mysteries.

Illustrated with a frontispiece depicting Sherlock's fall from Reichenbach, and twenty-four plates, by Sidney Paget, the first Holmes he illustrated.

The volume consists of eleven stories: "The Adventure of Silver Blaze"; "The Adventure of the Yellow Face"; "The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk"; "The Adventure of the Gloria Scott"; "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual"; "The Adventure of the Reigate Squire"; "The Adventure of the Crooked Man"; "The Adventure of the Resident Patient"; "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter"; "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty" and "The Final Problem".

From the library of W. A. Foyle at Beeleigh Abbey, with his morocco bookplate to the front paste down. William Foyle was the co-founder of Foyles bookshop, founding the leading bookshop in 1903 alongside his brother. He purchased Beeleigh Abbey during the Second World War, an impressive twelfth century monastery in Essex, which became home to his library, one the largest private libraries in England.