{"title":"A Study In Illustrations","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the enchanting world of illustrated books with \"A Study In Illustrations.\" Discover beautifully crafted editions that bring classic stories and modern tales to life through stunning artwork and visual storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sherlock-holmes-a-study-in-illustrations-volume-1-book-mike-foy-9781787058255","title":"Sherlock Holmes - A Study in Illustrations - Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eSherlock Holmes is truly a 'Man for All Seasons' and his image has been worked and re-worked for over a century. Unsurprisingly the illustrated Holmes of 1887 differs from that of today. In this multi-volume work, we will show how various illustrators have visualised Holmes and other characters who appeared in Arthur Conan Doyle's works. Later volumes will celebrate Holmes in non-Canonical stories as illustrators and authors placed Holmes in fresh adventures, but more of that later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume is not going to be diverse; it is true to say that one person dominates. While it is true that there are illustrations by Charles Altamont Doyle, David Henry Friston, James Grieg, and Walter Stanley Paget - the majority of this book is dominated by one person - Sidney Paget. Just as nine tenths of an iceberg lies under the water; this book is overwhelmingly Sidney Paget.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you are an admirer of his work, you are in for a treat as every Sidney Paget Sherlock Holmes illustration is here providing all the atmosphere of the period - the fog-filled labyrinth of London, the desolation of Dartmoor, and, perhaps his most famous illustration as Holmes and Moriarty fight to the death at the top of the Reichenbach Falls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat can you expect to find within this initial volume?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- The first images by David Henry Friston for \u003cem\u003eBeeton's Christmas Annual\u003c\/em\u003e, where Sherlock Holmes is seen for the first time with magnifying glass and impressive sideburns in the story \u003cem\u003eA Study in Scarlet\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Images from \u003cem\u003eA Study in Scarlet\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Sign of Four\u003c\/em\u003e when they appeared in the lesser-known \u003cem\u003eBristol Observer\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- James Greig's drawings for \u003cem\u003eA Study in Scarlet\u003c\/em\u003e in 1895 and again in 1896.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Six illustrations by Arthur Conan Doyle's father Charles Altamont Doyle for the 1888 \u003cem\u003eA Study in Scarlet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Four images by Sidney's younger brother Walter Paget from \u003cem\u003eThe Adventure of the Dying Detective\u003c\/em\u003e' in \u003cem\u003eThe Strand Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e (1913.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter that it's back-to-back Sidney Paget, commencing with \u003cem\u003eA Scandal in Bohemia\u003c\/em\u003e and ending with \u003cem\u003eThe Adventure of the Second Stain\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49744132014353,"sku":"NGR9781787058255","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50391190405393,"sku":"CIN1787058255G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51053546078481,"sku":"NIN9781787058255","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52531911983377,"sku":"NLS9781787058255","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53335280877841,"sku":"GOR014855818","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1787058255.jpg?v=1751122373"},{"product_id":"sherlock-holmes-a-study-in-illustrations-volume-3-book-mike-foy-9781804240649","title":"Sherlock Holmes - A Study in Illustrations - Volume 3","description":"\u003cp\u003eWelcome to Sherlock Holmes: A Study in illustrations Volume lll, and now we finally enter the world of Sherlock Holmes in glorious colour, gone are the monochrome illustrations of Sidney Paget, Richard Gutschmidt and others, it is now, finally time for a splash of colour and in particular the work of our featured Artist Frederic Dorr Steele, and while it is true, given his importance in the Sherlock Holmes Illustration world and particularly America, that perhaps he should have appeared in an earlier volume, it is only in a colour volume, that his talents really shine with his wonderfully coloured Collier Covers (not an easy thing to say) and so his work has had to wait until now. The mention of Steele also links us nicely in with the Actor William Gillette, so we have a section about this man, who personified Sherlock Holmes for a generation and inspired the likeness Steele used in his illustration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo what is in this book, well we have a very cosmopolitan collections from artist from France, Ireland, America, Spain, \u0026amp; Britain, starting with Beeton's Christmas Annual of 1887, the publication which first introduced the World to Holmes or is that Holmes to the World? This is our first cover image as befits it's importance, then we have a rather pleasing front cover by French artist, Andr  Galland, who sadly only ever did one illustration of Holmes. More covers follow from another French artist, namely Gaston Simoes da Fonseca, sorry we will have to split Fonseca's work over two volumes, because he only did 3 colour (shown here) and 128 monochrome images so he will be the featured artist in the next volume, think of his three colour images, here as an introduction to his main body of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a short introduction to the English Artist Pamela Colman Smith and the Irish Illustrator Albert George Morrow before we come to the William Gillette section, with posters for his play and film and also a programme. This leads us onto Frederic Dorr Steele's Holmes and his Avatar of Gillette, as he appeared in print, over 200 pages as we explore the entire Steele collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to appearing in books and magazines, Holmes also appeared on Cards, and we have the complete collection of 25 Turf cigarette cards produced by Alexander Boguslavsky in 1923, strictly speaking these are not a Holmes collection, but a Sir Arthur Conan Doyle character one. Next we have a 1920s Joanquin Coll Salieti series of 40 cards that illustrated 3 Sherlock Holmes stories, Spanish text with an English translation. To round out the card section, we have a non-card, a beer mat, for the what was once a Whitbread Sherlock Holmes pub, but is now owned by Greene King. In 1933 Player's produced 25 characters from fiction cigarette cards set. We only include card number 21, Sherlock Holmes. Nearing the end of this volume we have 4 images by Wladyslaw Teodor (WT) Brenda. Last but not least we have a nice little puzzle by John French Sloan and a mystery about who originated a view of Sherlock Crossed legs, smoking a pipe. 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In it's packed pages, a plentiful plethora of pleasing pictures plus a few Pagets(sorry). An imaginative, intriguing itemized index of iconic illuminated images. In truth it's quite nice and big and will sit very well next to it's slightly smaller volume 1 brother, I am hoping for a big family as volume after volume take over your homes and you are forced to move to ever bigger houses. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnswer me this, why do weather people always tell you about yesterday's weather, you lived through it after all, now in the last volume, we did have a persistent downpour of Paget throughout the book, with intermittent glimpses of Greig and Friston on some pages. This book is a more homogeneous effort, while there are some Paget images, they are more like a drizzle than a Wet Monsoon (there is such a thing as a Dry Monsoon, I never knew that). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe have all the Sherlock Holmes images from 6 International Artists, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStarting with the prolific German Artist, Richard Gutschmidt, both his signed works as well as his unsigned ones making a pleasing total of 228 illustrations and taking the prize as Page Hogger, as Paget did in Volume 1.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNext, we travel across the seas to America, where Graham Grinham drew 6 illustrations for the St. Louis Star, a small number admittedly, but he had a very unique style. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBridging the Gap between the Americas and Europe, we next have Canadian born George Wylie Hutchinson, who travelled to England as a cabin boy before producing 42 Sherlock Holmes images for the Book versions of A Study in Scarlet. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStaying in England, we have Arthur Twidle and his 17 images. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Irish Born, American Artist Thomas Jeffs Nicholl. with his 33 Sherlock Holmes newspaper images (hence the quality). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinally, we go back to Europe again for French Cartoonist Raymond Pallier and his Hound of the Baskerville 108 image epic work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf my maths is correct that means there are 434 \u003cstrong\u003enew\u003c\/strong\u003e images here.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50391202988305,"sku":"CIN1787059251G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51052480299281,"sku":"NIN9781787059252","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52425710600465,"sku":"NLS9781787059252","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1787059251.jpg?v=1750865365"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-ie\/collections\/a-study-in-illustrations-book-series.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}