Annotating and Dating the Canon
William S. Baring-Gould, editor. The Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Four Novels and the Fifty-Six Short Stories Complete. Includes an introduction, notes and bibliography by Baring-Gould. Second edition. Volume I. New York: C. N. Potter, 1974.
The Annotated Sherlock Holmes
William S. Baring-Gould published a Sherlockian chronology and a biography of Sherlock Holmes, before embarking on an annotated edition of the complete novels and stories. Sadly, Baring-Gould died of a stroke in 1967 at the age of 54, just before the publication of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes.
Leslie S. Klinger, a prolific editor and annotator, published The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes starting in 2005. It comprises three volumes, compared with Baring-Gould’s two. Shown here are the first volumes of both works, open to annotations of “The Speckled Band.”
Also on display are a letter regarding the publication of Klinger’s work, and proof copies of volume one of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes.
Leslie S. Klinger, editor. The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes. Includes a foreword and notes by Klinger. Volume I. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005.
Letter to Les Klinger from “Bob”. September 28, 2004.
On loan from the collection of Leslie S. Klinger.
Folded and gathered sheets for The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, 2004. On loan from the collection of Leslie S. Klinger.