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Design Category
Book design, 2005
Design firm
Chin-Yee Lai Design (Maplewood, New Jersey)
Collection
(2006) 50 Books/50 Covers of 2005

Credits
Art director: Eleen Cheung
Designer: Chin-Yee Lai
Jacket designer: Chin-Yee Lai
Illustrator: Frederic Dorr Steele (Collier’s, 1903)
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher/client: W. W. Norton
Juror Notes

Perennial, abundantly published in a myriad of forms, from dog-eared paperback to leather-bound library editions. But for a two-volume collection, The New Annotated is the ultimate for Sherlockians. The entire package is well conceived and evocative of an era.