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Sherlock Holmes — Baker Street (1887)

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This is the London of 1887 rendered as a printed page: fog-gray streets, hissing gaslight, and the crisp wood-engraved line that carried the detective from A Study in Scarlet into The Strand Magazine. It is built around Sidney Paget's dense cross-hatched ink on cheap grayish pulp stock.

Everything reads like a monthly serial — two narrow justified columns split by a hairline rule, engraved plate captions, a magnifying-glass dingbat under every title. The palette lives in graphite and fog, lit only by one gaslight brass and the rare flick of scarlet. The game is afoot, and it was printed in ink.

Learn more about the Sherlock Holmes — Baker Street (1887) style

  • OriginLondon — Baker Street, Fleet Street, the Strand
  • Period1887–1893 (A Study in Scarlet 1887; The Strand launch 1891; short-story run 1891–1893)
  • DesignerArthur Conan Doyle · Sidney Paget · George Newnes · Walter Paget
  • MovementsVictorian wood-engraving illustration · penny-serial magazine design · late-19th-century periodical typography

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