Dr. Watson's scrapbook
I really love the recent trend among publishers to create books so appealing that their possible transition to digital media wouldn't make any sense. The Case Files of Sherlock Holmes is one of those books. Essentially, it's Watson's scrapbook filled with notes, newspaper articles, police reports, maps, photos, and so on. Plus, it has a few envelopes with removable evidence. Beautiful book. For a paper junkie like me, it's a gift from heaven. That's exactly the kind of book I would've liked to create. I even tried to do something in that direction when I was a kid - I wish I kept the map I made for The Odyssey of Captain Blood or Richelieu's letters for The Three Musketeers...
Anyway, back to Watson's scrapbook. Of course, I bought it, and then, in the privacy of my own home, opened the first envelope regarding A Scandal in Bohemia. Of course, there's a photograph of The Woman that looks suspiciously like Sarah Bernhardt. (I'm only 90% sure it's her. I don't remember that photo.) But the next artifact made me lose my cool for a while. Imagine the performance poster from Irene Adler's April appearance at the Empire Theatre of the Varieties...with a self-portrait of Madame Vigée-Lebrun in a straw hat, complete with a palette and brushes. That's so 1790s, guys.
I'm having a field day.
Anyway, back to Watson's scrapbook. Of course, I bought it, and then, in the privacy of my own home, opened the first envelope regarding A Scandal in Bohemia. Of course, there's a photograph of The Woman that looks suspiciously like Sarah Bernhardt. (I'm only 90% sure it's her. I don't remember that photo.) But the next artifact made me lose my cool for a while. Imagine the performance poster from Irene Adler's April appearance at the Empire Theatre of the Varieties...with a self-portrait of Madame Vigée-Lebrun in a straw hat, complete with a palette and brushes. That's so 1790s, guys.
I'm having a field day.