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DOYLE, Arthur
Conan
The Hound
of the Baskervilles
George
Newnes Limited ,London,
1902
With
sixteen plates by Sidney
Paget..
First edition
The Hound
of the Baskervilles
was based on an idea given to Doyle by Bertram
Fletcher
Robinson,
who was a nephew of Sir John Robinson and a correspondent for the Daily
Express during the Boer War. The two men struck up a friendship when
travelling
back on the same ship from Cape Town. They spent four days
together on a golfing holiday at Cromer in March 1901, and it was then
that Robinson mentioned the legend , possibly
of the Black
Hound of Hergest associated with the Vaughan
family of Hergest Court in Herefordshire. Conan Doyle went on to write
his most famous and sinister novel.
Bound
in chocolate brown
morocco with plain terracotta
handmade endpapers and gilt
edges, with a design to the cover created by the use of hand-tooled
gouges and gold
leaf, depicting the hound in the moonlight. Held in a matching
leather entry slipcase.
BKDOYL.010 £2,750.00 |
