Sherlock Holmes Stories "Author’s Limited Edition" Illustrated, 1903.

DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Works of Arthur Conan Doyle. New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1903. AUTHOR'S EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, LIMITED to 1000 sets of which this No 847. Ten volumes, complete. Limited to 1000 copies, this set No. 847. Undershaw Edition, referring to the named limited issue of the collected works. Individual volumes with D. Appleton and Company title-page imprints. Original red cloth with paper spine labels; gilt top edges, deckled fore and lower edges; each volume with photogravure frontispiece with tissue guards.

Prefaces and notes by Arthur Conan Doyle. Includes the principal Sherlock Holmes works: A Study in Scarlet, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, together with additional fiction and essays. This American edition, unlike the British, includes The Hound of the Baskervilles, first published the preceding year. Green/Gibson A59.

Contents clean and well-preserved, several volumes like new in retaining unopened leaves, including The Hound of the Baskervilles. Bindings sound and well preserved, cloth clean and bright with light handling wear; several volumes with white mark to lower spine area, one front board with white mark.

Issued at the height of Conan Doyle’s international fame, the Author’s Edition reflects the early canonization of Sherlock Holmes as one of literature’s defining detectives. Beginning with A Study in Scarlet in 1887, Holmes transformed detective fiction through his methods of forensic observation, deductive reasoning, and scientific analysis, helping to establish the modern mystery genre; the stories included in this set remain among the most celebrated detective works ever published. Issued only months after The Hound of the Baskervilles first appeared in serialization, this edition preserves Doyle’s notes and prefaces alongside his major works.

A smart set of Arthur Conan Doyle's complete works up to the year 1903, with introductory notes and prefaces by the author.

[Attributes: First Edition thus; Limited Edition; Hard Cover.]