The Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Four Novels And The Fifty-Six Short Stories Complete
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: slipcase: worn with some damage along the edges and corners.
Few characters in literary history have captured the imagination of readers across generations quite like the brilliant, pipe-smoking detective of 221B Baker Street — and The Annotated Sherlock Holmes presents the complete canon in a form worthy of the legend. Edited and annotated by William S. Baring-Gould, this landmark two-volume edition gathers all four novels and fifty-six short stories penned by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, enriching each tale with exhaustive scholarly commentary, maps, diagrams, coats-of-arms, photographs, and illustrations by the original Victorian masters, including Sidney Paget and Howard K. Elcock. The result is an immersive reading experience that situates Holmes, Watson, Moriarty, and the fog-drenched streets of London within their full historical and cultural context. Baring-Gould, himself a celebrated Sherlockian scholar, brings the affectionate rigour of a true devotee to this definitive edition, treating the Holmes canon with the same seriousness a classicist might afford Homer or Virgil. His annotations illuminate obscure Victorian references, resolve long-debated chronological inconsistencies, and illuminate the biographical parallels between Doyle and his immortal creation. For the devoted Holmesian and the curious newcomer alike, this edition is not merely a collection of detective stories — it is an invitation to lose oneself entirely in the most richly detailed fictional world ever constructed.
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Format: Hardback
Published: 1979, John Murray, London
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: slipcase: worn with some damage along the edges and corners.
Few characters in literary history have captured the imagination of readers across generations quite like the brilliant, pipe-smoking detective of 221B Baker Street — and The Annotated Sherlock Holmes presents the complete canon in a form worthy of the legend. Edited and annotated by William S. Baring-Gould, this landmark two-volume edition gathers all four novels and fifty-six short stories penned by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, enriching each tale with exhaustive scholarly commentary, maps, diagrams, coats-of-arms, photographs, and illustrations by the original Victorian masters, including Sidney Paget and Howard K. Elcock. The result is an immersive reading experience that situates Holmes, Watson, Moriarty, and the fog-drenched streets of London within their full historical and cultural context. Baring-Gould, himself a celebrated Sherlockian scholar, brings the affectionate rigour of a true devotee to this definitive edition, treating the Holmes canon with the same seriousness a classicist might afford Homer or Virgil. His annotations illuminate obscure Victorian references, resolve long-debated chronological inconsistencies, and illuminate the biographical parallels between Doyle and his immortal creation. For the devoted Holmesian and the curious newcomer alike, this edition is not merely a collection of detective stories — it is an invitation to lose oneself entirely in the most richly detailed fictional world ever constructed.