Accession number
PML 251241
Creator
Shaw, John Bennett.
Published
Chicago : Black Cat Press, [1968]
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
Text divided into Books I and II, with one illustration each in olive-green, black and white.
Title page printed chiefly in black with the word "detection" and publisher's device in olive-green.
"In all but a very few instances these are direct statements by Sherlock Holmes himself"--Preface.
"A limited edition ... printed ... on Superfine text paper. Bound by hand in the studio of Bela Blau. Design & typography by Norman W. Forgue"--Colophon.
Housed in box labelled Black Cat Press / Norman W. Forgue.
Title page printed chiefly in black with the word "detection" and publisher's device in olive-green.
"In all but a very few instances these are direct statements by Sherlock Holmes himself"--Preface.
"A limited edition ... printed ... on Superfine text paper. Bound by hand in the studio of Bela Blau. Design & typography by Norman W. Forgue"--Colophon.
Housed in box labelled Black Cat Press / Norman W. Forgue.
Description
[51] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 66 mm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
Binding
Dark green skiver binding; pewter head of Holmes, in profile, affixed to centre of front cover, outlined in gilt with circle of tiny gilt stars and smoke ascending through the circle from his pipe; spine stamped in gilt. Endpapers patterned in green, red and white. Bound by the studio of Bela Blau.
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