Sherlock Homes The Man and His World by H. R. F. Keating

Sherlock Homes The Man and His World

Edited by H. R. F. Keating

Thames and Hudson, 1979, [First Edition], ISBN 0500012148, black and white illustrated frontispiece, black and white photographs and illustrations throughout, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing, bumping, creasing, and chipping, minor discolouration, sticker residue to front  (see photographs)

“…H. R. F. Keating has taken a new approach.  In writing this life of Homes he has confined himself to the authenticated facts that Dr Watson alone was in a position to give the world, but to them has added the facts of the historical and cultural events of Holmes’s day.
Mr Keating’s method reveals, first, some aspects of the great detective’s career that have escaped hitherto even the scrutiny of the most minute exegesis. (What, for instance, was the significance of the idle visit to the Bond Street art galleries in the heat of the affair of the Hound of the Baskervilles?)  It also presents Holmes as very much a man of his times – a true creation of late Victorian and Edwardian England.”