"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Conan Doyle" with black/white illustrations by Paul Hogarth, Introduction by Brian A. Marsh, published by Folio Society, London, 1958, printed in Great Britain.

Hard boards, brown cloth [some fading]; black label with gold lettering on spine; 5.3/4" x 9"; 291 pages, several full-page line drawings, very good/ fine condition.

"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective and illustrated by Sidney Paget. These are the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, originally published as single stories in the Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The book was published in England on October 14 1892 by George Newnes Ltd and in a US Edition on October 15 by Harper. The initial combined print run was 14,500 copies. Many adventures of Sherlock Holmes in this volume, including A Scandal in Bohemia; The Red Headed League; A Case of Identity; The Speckled Band and many others.

Paul Hogarth, (Arthur Paul Hoggarth, 1917-2001) was an English artist and illustrator. He is best known for the cover drawings that he prepared in the 1980s for the Penguin edition of Graham Greene's books. He had distant connection with William Hogarth, whose father was also born Hoggarth. Paul Hogarth was a painter with a talent for illustration. As an illustrator he studied under James Boswell, and worked with a number of eminent authors, including Robert Graves, Graham Greene, Brendan Behan, Lawrence Durrell, and William Golding. He illustrated the New Penguin Shakespeare series of paperbacks in the 1970s, and his work can also be seen on the cover of John Wyndham's 'The Midwich Cuckoos' (1964, Penguin. He was elected an associate member of the Royal Academy in 1974, a full member in 1984; and was awarded the OBE in 1989. His work is held in collections worldwide, and he exhibited regularly in the Francis Kyle Gallery in London.

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