Arthur Conan Doyle | The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, 1894

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1894

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, half-title, illustrated frontispiece by Sidney Paget, 90 illustrations by Paget through the text, original dark blue cloth, front board and spine lettered and blocked in black and gilt, floral patterned endpapers, all edges gilt, light spotting, spine rubbed

Published on 13 December 1893 in an edition of 10,000 copies, this second volume of short stories famously culminates with Holmes and his nemesis Moriarty plunging into the Reichenbach Falls - the author's failed attempt to kill off his creation.

LITERATURE

Green and Gibson A14a; Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone

PROVENANCE

The Alexis Galanos Collection