Marshall Rare Books
The Hound of the Baskervilles – The Strand Magazine Original Wrapper Issues
HOUND OF BASKERVILLES IN THE RARE ORIGINAL PARTS
London:George Newnes, August 1901 – April 1902. Numbers 128-136.The Strand Magazine, Original 9 Parts, Complete with all Wrappers and Adverts. With 60 Illustrations by Sidney Paget, by far the most illustrated Sherlock Holmes story.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Conan Doyle’s best known novel follows Holmes and Watson as they investigate the mysterious demise of Sir Charles Baskerville, whose body is found on the desolate Devonshire moors.
One of the most famous crime stories ever written inspired by Bertram Fletcher Robinson (Daily Express correspondent during the Boer War), with whom Doyle struck up a friendship when traveling back on the same ship from Cape Town. On a golfing holiday in 1901 Robinson mentioned the legend of the Black Hound of Hergest associated with the Vaughan family of Hergest Court in Herefordshire. Doyle subsequently relocated his version of the story, with Sherlock Holmes as the main protagonist, to Dartmoor in Devon, Robinson’s native county.
Doyle wrote to his mother on 2 April 1901: “Robinson and I are exploring the moor over our Sherlock Holmes book. I think it will work out splendidly… Holmes is at his very best, and it is a highly dramatic idea”.
In Clam Shell Box.
