The Sign of Four

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Title

The Sign of Four

Coverage

London

Publisher

George Newnes, Ltd.

Date

1901

Subject

Souvenir Edition, in dust jacket

Description

The gray-green jacket included ads for Newnes’s Thin Paper Series on the front jacket flap and the Caxton Series on the back jacket flap. The back cover advertised the four volumes in the Souvenir Edition. Readers could buy each volume separately for 3/6 or as a set, with top- edge gilt, in a slipcase for 14/–. (In 1901, a month’s rent was 10/– for a London professional man.)