8vo. Frontispiece and 15 illustrations by Sidney Paget. Original red pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black (hinges tender, spine lightly sunned, a few faint spots of rubbing). Provenance: W.H. Smith & Son (embossed stamp); John Talbot Gernon (morocco book label).

FIRST EDITION, with the misprints found in all subsequent printings (these were never corrected; see Green & Gibson note). The Hound of the Baskervilles marked the return of Sherlock Holmes after his disappearance over Reichenbach Falls in “The Final Problem,” published in 1893, which Doyle described as the “inevitable relapse after repentance.” De Waal 87; Green & Gibson, A26a.