[8], 359, [2] pp. Illustrated with 16 plates, including frontispiece, from paintings by Sidney Paget. 7x4½, rebound in full red calf, covers ruled in gilt, two gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., custom slipcase. First Edition in Book Form.

First issued in parts in The Strand magazine. The most famous of the Sherlock Holmes tales, based on an English fable told to Doyle by a journalist friend, Fletcher Robinson, while on holiday. Page 13, line 3 has "you" for "your." Original cloth spine and both covers bound-in at the rear endleaves. De Waal 87a; Gibson & Greene A26a; Locke 51; Mortlake 47.