Small 4to. In-text illustrations by Sidney Paget. (Some spotting.) Original light-blue gilt-decorated pictorial cloth over bevelled boards, edges gilt (some soiling and rubbing, spine leaned, hinges reinforced).

FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, FIRST ISSUE of the text, with the misprint Miss "Violent" Hunter for "Violet" in the final sentence of "The Copper Beeches" (p.317).  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the first collection of Holmes stories to be published, was released shortly after the success of the series in the Strand Magazine.

[With:] DOYLE. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.  London: George Newnes, 1894. 

Small 4to. Frontispiece of the Death of Holmes at Reichenbach Falls and numerous illustrations in text by Sidney Paget. Original blue gilt-decorated pictorial cloth over heavy bevelled boards, edges gilt (some rubbing and soiling, spine leaned, hinges reinforced); cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM.