Mike Foy Sherlock Holmes - A Study in Illustrations - Volume 2 Hardcover Book

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 its packed pages, a plentiful plethora of pleasing pictures plus a few Pagets(sorry). An imaginative, intriguing itemized index of iconic illuminated images. In truth its quite nice and big and will sit very well next to its 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. Answer me this, why do weather people always tell you about yesterdays 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).We have all the Sherlock Holmes images from 6 International Artists, 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.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. Bridging the Gap between the... | Mike Foy Sherlock Holmes - A Study in Illustrations - Volume 2 Hardcover Book