Doyle (Arthur Conan) and others. In The Strand Magazine, vol.VI

London, Newnes, 1893.

Large 8vo. Original blue pictorial cloth, spine gilt, gilt edges.

The half-year volume for July–December 1893, containing ‘The Naval Treaty’, which ran in two parts in October and November, in which Holmes recovers a stolen secret naval treaty for the Foreign Office clerk Percy Phelps. The same volume holds ‘The Crooked Man’, ‘The Resident Patient’, ‘The Greek Interpreter’ (the first appearance of Mycroft Holmes) and ‘The Final Problem’ (December), in which Doyle sent Holmes over the Reichenbach Falls. All of these were collected in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893/4). Sidney Paget illustrated the Strand Holmes stories.