Skip to main content

The adventures of Sherlock Holmes: PB 231-2003

Object information

Awaiting location update

Titles

The adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Maker(s)

Writer: Doyle, Arthur Conan
Editor: Smith, Edgar W.
Contributor: Starrett, Vincent
Illustrator: Steele, Frederick Dorr
Illustrator: Paget, Sidney
Publisher: Limited Editions Club
Designer: Dwiggins, William Addison
Printer: Beilenson, Peter
Printer: Photogravure and Color Company
Binder (person): Russell-Rutter Company

Categories

Description

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; a definitive text, corrected and edited by Edgar W. Smith, with an introduction by Vincent Starrett, and illustrated with a selective collation of the original illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele, Sidney Paget and others

Contents: v. 1. A study in scarlet. The sign of the four.--v. 2. The twelve adventures originally published as The adventures of Sherlock Holmes.--v. 3. The twelve adventures originally published as The memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

3 v. illus. 24 cm

Place(s) associated

  • New York

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John

Dating

Production date: AD 1950

Note

Cf. Quarto-millenary: the first 250 publications of the Limited Editions Club (New York, 1959), no. 207. "... planned by W. A. Dwiggins ... the composition and the printing of the text were done by Peter Beilenson in Mount Vernon and the reproduction of the illustrations was done by the Photogravure and Color Company in New York. The edition consists of fifteen hundred copies..." Quarter bound in gold-stamped black linen with wallpaper sides with cameo decoration.

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 231-2003
Primary reference Number: 95754
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 September 2012 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "The adventures of Sherlock Holmes" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/95754 Accessed: 2024-12-22 06:05:04

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/95754 |title=The adventures of Sherlock Holmes |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-22 06:05:04|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-95754

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...