Usually I don’t own the books I feature for Cover Attraction, but I’m so excited about this book I’m making an exception (and I may do so again in the future). This book was hard for me to get; after fighting gift-card wielding customers at Barnes & Noble, only to find it sold out not only at the store, but at the Barnes & Noble website, I had to get it on eBay. But I’m a fan, dang it, and this was the edition I wanted to read before reading The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes. Anyway . . .
Marcia at The Printed Page hosts Cover Attraction, a weekly occasion to post an eye-catching cover. Here is mine, The Complete Sherlock Holmes Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics Edition:
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Edition
This slightly fuzzy images shows the back, decorated with the plaque for 221b Baker Street, and other Sherlockian and Victorian objects, including a penny-farthing. The spine is decorated with the Hound of the Baskervilles.
The front and end-papers are decorated with tartan paper, and I fairly swooned when I saw it; it’s masculine and British and very appropriate. The page-edges are gilt and there’s a ribbon bookmark.
The book lacks illustrations and other distractions like spoilery annotations, so it’s perfect for my first read-through of the Sherlock Holmes series.
I’m glad you were able to find it after it was completely sold out! The cover is fantastic.
Thanks for your help in acquiring it. I feel lucky to have been able to get a copy; I had my heart very much set on this particular edition, seeing as it’s so handsome. Eventually I’ll probably get a standard Barnes & Noble Classics version to loan out and get others hooked on Holmes. ;)
That is a real work of art. What a lovely thing to sit with for hours a t a time. I love every detail of it. Glad you finally got one. Enjoy. My Cover attraction post is up.