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Sherlock Holmes - A Study in Illustrations - Volume 2
Mike Foy
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- Book Synopsis
- <p>I hope you left room on your bookshelf, because Sherlock Holmes: A study in illustrations Volume 2 is here, bigger, bolder, more bountiful and other words beginning with B. 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. </p><p> </p><p>Answer 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). </p><p> </p><p>We have all the Sherlock Holmes images from 6 International Artists, </p><p> </p><p>Starting 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.</p><p> </p><p>Next, 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. </p><p> </p><p>Bridging 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. </p><p> </p><p>Staying in England, we have Arthur Twidle and his 17 images. </p><p> </p><p>Then Irish Born, American Artist Thomas Jeffs Nicholl. with his 33 Sherlock Holmes newspaper images (hence the quality). </p><p> </p><p>Finally, we go back to Europe again for French Cartoonist Raymond Pallier and his Hound of the Baskerville 108 image epic work.</p><p> </p><p>If my maths is correct that means there are 434 <strong>new</strong> images here.</p>
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781787059252
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- MX Publishing, (20 March 2022)
- Number of Pages
- 458
- Weight
- 1376 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 279 x 216 x 25 mm
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