Description
A first edition, first printing of ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ published by Newnes in 1902. First issue point: typo on page 13, line 3, which has “you” for “your”. Illustrated with numerous black-and-white plates. 12mo [5″ x 7 3/8″], 359 pp. Bound in the publisher’s original pictorial maroon cloth. This is a good book. The front panel is vibrant and clean with the gilt complete and without blemishing. The spine is slightly faded and has benefitted from some colour repair to the lower part of the spine and to the lettering of ‘George Newnes Ltd.’. The corners are generally sharp and the binding tight. Each of the sixteen internal Sidney Paget illustrations are present – a number have previous tape burns which have shaddowed onto the previous page. Overall, this is a good copy of the first issue of the book.
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set in 1889 largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England’s West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Paget, Sidney
