Sherlock Holmes Characters Book

[Truthhunter]

Out of interest, I am a member of the Osprey Publishing forum, and added a topic suggesting a new title, consisting of new colour plates of characters/scenes from the Sherlock Holmes novels, pretty much in the same vein as they do their uniforms titles.

 

Waiting for a reply from Osprey.

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

New color plates? As in people dressed up as Holmes, Watson, Lestrade, Jeffery Hope re-enacting the scenes? Or just enhanced Paget's?

[Truthhunter]

Colour plates, as in detailed images of all the characters in the novels, as individual studies or in well-known scenes.

 

Nothing to do with people dressing-up as them.

 

The artists at Osprey are hugely gifted, if you see some of the plates from their military books.

 

They do cover non-military subjects, including a Steampunk uniforms title released in November that I'll be getting.

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Sounds interesting and fun. So the images are original pieces of art then?

[Truthhunter]

Yes. They team up a writer and artist/illustrator for the titles.

 

I'm hoping, with such an interest in Sherlock Holmes, that Osprey would see it as a good opportunity.

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Sounds like something worth waiting for and seeing. Especially the new works of art.  Will be interesting to see the illustrators interpretations of Holmes and Watson. .

[Carol the Dabbler]

Since Conan Doyle gave fairly extensive descriptions of many characters, the artists would have plenty to work with.  I'm envisioning a color-plate portrait of the character next to a page with ACD's description plus a synopsis of how the character fit into the story or stories.  Could be a good-sized book, considering how many well-fleshed-out characters there were.

 

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

I'm going to put that on my wishlist.

[jesskayding]

I'd purchase that.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Would be a good reference, for those of us who have trouble recalling which Conan Doyle story a particular character was in.