Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons

The Return of Sherlock Holmes vol. 1 (1915)

The Return of Sherlock Holmes vol. 1, p. 12 (1915)

The Return of Sherlock Holmes vol. 1, p. 13 (1915)

Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd. was a British publishing company founded by Sir Isaac Pitman (1813-1897) in 1886 Pitman as a partnerships with his sons Alfred and Ernest. Pitman was an English teacher who developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman shorthand. The company was to become one of the world's leading educational publishers and training businesses with offices in London, Bath, New York, Melbourne, Johannesburg, Toronto and Tokyo. The publishing division was bought by rival Pearson Plc in 1985.

Between 1893 and 1940s, the company published 30ish short stories, 3 novels and 1 article written by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Conan Doyle published by Sir Isaac Pitman

The list below only show the first editions. The books were republished every year. See table below for year datation.

1893-1894

• 08.1893-12.1894 : The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Pitman's Shorthand Weekly)

1898

• 01.01.1898-25.06.1898 : The Sign of Four (Pitman's Shorthand Weekly)
• 09.1898 : The Sign of Four (Pitman's Shorthand Library No. 4)

1901

• 06.04.1901-13.04.1901 : Strange Studies of Life: The Holocaust of Manor Place (Pitman's Shorthand Weekly)

1915-1916

• 02.01.1915-11.03.1916 : The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Pitman's Shorthand Weekly)

1915-1919

• 11.1915 : The Return of Sherlock Holmes (volume 1)
  • The Adventure of the Dancing Men
  • The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist
  • The Adventure of the Priory School
• 02.1917 : The Return of Sherlock Holmes (volume 2)
  • The Adventure of the Empty House
  • The Adventure of Black Peter
  • The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
  • The Adventure of the Three Students
• 10.1919 : The Return of Sherlock Holmes (volume 3)
  • The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez
  • The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
  • The Adventure of the Second Stain

1918

• 05.01.1918-21.11.1918 : The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (Pitman's Shorthand Weekly)

1921

• 01.01.1921-16.06.1921 : The Doings of Raffles Haw (Pitman's Shorthand Weekly)

1924

• 05.04.1924-27.09.1924 : Tales of Adventure and Medical Life (Pitman's Shorthand Weekly)

1926-1927

• 06.11.1926-24.09.1927 : The Lost World (Pitman's Shorthand Weekly)

1928

• 02.1928 : Tales of Adventure and Medical Life
  • The Great Brown-Pericord Motor
  • Crabbe's Practice
  • The Sealed Room
  • The Début of Bimbashi Joyce

Key to dating codes

On the verso of the title page or at the foot of last page, a code indicates the publishing year, following the table below:

Pitman's Shorthand Library	Twentieth Century Edition	Centenary Edition	New Era Edition
1898 1899 [A]	1900 [B] 1901 [C] 1902 [D] 1903 [E] 1904 [F] 1905 [G] 1906 [H] 1907 [I] 1908 [J] 1909 K 1910 L 1911 M 1912 N	1913 O 1914 P 1915 Q 1916 R 1917 S 1918 T 1919 U 1920 V 1921 W 1922 X 1923 Y 1924 Z	1925 B5 1926 B6 1927 B7 1928 B8 1929 B9 1930 C etc.

Table created by Richard Lancelyn Green in his Arthur Conan Doyle bibliography.

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