Title
The Sign of Four
Coverage
London
Publisher
George Newnes, Ltd.
Date
1901
Subject
Souvenir Edition, inscribed
Description
Newnes issued this Souvenir Edition in December 1901 to coincide with William Gillette’s production of the play Sherlock Holmes at the Lyceum Theatre. The cover featured a gilt sphinx on dark blue cloth, designed by Alfred Garth Jones, who followed it several months later with a dramatic cover for The Hound of the Baskervilles.