8 volumes – Volume 1, January – June 1891 to Volume 8, July – December 1894
Containing the first twenty four Sherlock Holmes stories to appear in print
Uniformly bound in half dark blue calf with red title labels on the spines (spine of volume 2 faded), marbled paper sides, endpapers and edges, bookplate of Arthur W. Bush on the front paste down endpapers, edges of the marbled paper sides worn and with some insect damage, profusely illustrated, contents bright, a very good set.
The first appearance of Sherlock Holmes. These volumes contain the first twenty four Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
‘In July 1891 Doyle published the short story "A Scandal in Bohemia" in The Strand Magazine—a "story which would change his life", according to his biographer, Andrew Lycett, as it introduced Holmes and Watson to a wide audience; the duo had provided the subject of Doyle's first novel, A Study in Scarlet, which was published in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887. The story in The Strand was one in a series of six, published in successive months.[4] They were well received by the public, and the editors of the magazine commissioned a further six stories, and then another series of twelve. Doyle, fearful of having his other work overshadowed by his fictional detective, killed his creation off in December 1893 in "The Adventure of the Final Problem".’
The Strand Magazine was a monthly British magazine founded by George Newnes, composed of short fiction and general interest articles. It was published in the United Kingdom from January 1891 to March 1950, running to 711 issues, though the first issue was on sale well before Christmas 1890. Its immediate popularity is evidenced by an initial sale of nearly 300,000. Sales increased in the early months, before settling down to a circulation of almost 500,000 copies a month, which lasted well into the 1930s.
Other contributors included Agatha Christie, E. W. Hornung, Graham Greene, Rudyard Kipling, W. Somerset Maugham, E. Nesbit, Dorothy L. Sayers, Georges Simenon, Leo Tolstoy, and H. G. Wells, as well as Grant Allen, Margery Allingham, J. E. Preston Muddock, E. C. Bentley, Mary Angela Dickens, C. B. Fry, Walter Goodman, W. W. Jacobs, Arthur Morrison, Edgar Wallace, Max Beerbohm and Dornford Yates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle_bibliography#Spiritualist_and_paranormal_works
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