Creator
Frederic Dorr Steele
Title
The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
Date
1908
Subject
Complete set of original artwork
Description
There are only two Sherlock Holmes stories for which all of the Frederick Dorr Steele illustrations are known, and “Wisteria Lodge” is the only one for which all seven original illustrations are together in a single collection. They were among a group of 22 Sherlockian originals sold by Steele in 1922 for $300 to Dr. Gray Chandler Briggs, an early Sherlockian and longtime admirer of Steele’s work.
Briggs never displayed the cover illustration for the story because his wife found it too spooky. I felt a special bond with my predecessor in collecting when my younger daughter was similarly distressed by the same drawing; as a consequence it hung for years with a dishtowel draped over its frame.
Format
Collier’s Weekly