Sherlock Holmes - A Study in Illustrations - Volume 2

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>I hope you left room on your bookshelf because Sherlock Holmes : A study in illustrations Volume 2 is here bigger bolder more bountiful and other words beginning with B. In it's packed pages a plentiful plethora of pleasing pictures plus a few Pagets(sorry). An imaginative intriguing itemized index of iconic illuminated images. In truth it's quite nice and big and will sit very well next to it's slightly smaller volume 1 brother I am hoping for a big family as volume after volume take over your homes and you are forced to move to ever bigger houses. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Answer me this why do weather people always tell you about yesterday's weather you lived through it after all now in the last volume we did have a persistent downpour of Paget throughout the book with intermittent glimpses of Greig and Friston on some pages. This book is a more homogeneous effort while there are some Paget images they are more like a drizzle than a Wet Monsoon (there is such a thing as a Dry Monsoon I never knew that).  </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>We have all the Sherlock Holmes images from 6 International Artists </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Starting with the prolific German Artist Richard Gutschmidt both his signed works as well as his unsigned ones making a pleasing total of 228 illustrations and taking the prize as Page Hogger as Paget did in Volume 1.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Next we travel across the seas to America where Graham Grinham drew 6 illustrations for the St. Louis Star a small number admittedly but he had a very unique style. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Bridging the Gap between the Americas and Europe we next have Canadian born George Wylie Hutchinson who travelled to England as a cabin boy before producing 42 Sherlock Holmes images for the Book versions of A Study in Scarlet. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Staying in England we have Arthur Twidle and his 17 images. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Then Irish Born American Artist Thomas Jeffs Nicholl. with his 33 Sherlock Holmes newspaper images (hence the quality). </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Finally we go back to Europe again for French Cartoonist Raymond Pallier and his Hound of the Baskerville 108 image epic work.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>If my maths is correct that means there are 434 </span><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>new</strong><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> images here.</span></p>