Sherlock Holmes is truly a Man for All Seasons and his image has been worked and reworked for over a century. Unsurprisingly the illustrated Holmes of 1887 differs from that of today. In this multivolume work, we will show how various illustrators have visualised Holmes and other characters who appeared in Arthur Conan Doyles works. Later volumes will celebrate Holmes in nonCanonical stories as illustrators and authors placed Holmes in fresh adventures, but more of that later.This volume is not going to be diverse it is true to say that one person dominates. While it is true that there are illustrations by Charles Altamont Doyle, David Henry Friston, James Grieg, and Walter Stanley Paget the majority of this book is dominated by one person Sidney Paget. Just as nine tenths of an iceberg lies under the water this book is overwhelmingly Sidney Paget.If you are an admirer of his work, you are in for a treat as every Sidney Paget Sherlock Holmes illustration is here providing all the atmosphere of the period the fogfilled labyrinth of London, the desolation of Dartmoor, and, perhaps his most famous illustration as Holmes and Moriarty fight to the death at the top of the Reichenbach Falls.What can you expect to find within this initial volume?The first images by David Henry Friston for Beetons Christmas Annual, where Sherlock Holmes is seen for the first time with magnifying glass and impressive sideburns in the story A Study in Scarlet.Images from A Study in Scarlet and...

Binding: Hardback;400 pages; Publisher: MX Publishing; Classification: FFH; Weight: 1362 g; Dimensions: 224 x 291 x 30

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