uwmspeccoll:Arthur Conan Doyle Birthday AnniversarySir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, the famed author
uwmspeccoll:Arthur Conan Doyle Birthday AnniversarySir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, the famed author of the Sherlock Holmes detective stories, was born on this day May 22, 1859. To celebrate, we present Sidney Paget’s illustrations from the first American edition of Doyle’s third Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles, published in New York by McClure, Phillips & Co. in 1902.The most famous of Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, Hound of the Baskervilles was produced in response to public demand. Doyle tried to end the Holmes series in 1893 by sending Sherlock Holmes to his death at the Reichenbach Falls in “The Final Problem.” But after eight years of public pressure and the lure of potentially high financial returns, Hound first appeared in monthly installments in The Strand Magazine between August 1901 and April 1902. It was published in book form with illustrations by Sidney Paget in London in March 1902 by Strand publisher George Newnes, who printed 25,000 copies at six shillings each, with a further 15,000 copies for India and the British Colonies on April 2nd. The American edition of 70,000 copies at $1.25 came out on April 15th. Strand illustrator Sidney Paget first began illustrating the Holmes stories in 1891, and is credited with depicting Holmes in a deerstalker cap and Inverness cape, details that were never mentioned in the stories or novels. Paget would go on to create more than 350 drawings for 37 Holmes short stories and The Hound of the Baskervilles.Happy Birthday Sir Arthur! -- source link