As Original As It Gets

The Sherlock Holmes stories were originally published by the beach Magazine. Wordsworth collects facsimiles (copies) of all the stories in this single book. The advantage of this approach is the originality. You get the original text, original sketches, original illustrations, and even some original advertisements from the magazines.
The major drawback is the limited quality of the archived material. There are strong variations in the brightness of the pages, ragged or smeared characters, irregular character spacing, and so on. With the book's format of 15 by 23 cm with a two column layout, the regular text is acceptable in size. But the occasional Smaller Font Becomes very small indeed.
Wordsworth therefore released the facsimiles in a three volume edition in pocketbook size (12.5 by 19.5 cm), where even the regular text is a challenge for the eyes. This complete collection with it's larger size is definitely on improvement over that. But if your eyes are not the best, you'll probably prefer to edition where the original text has been typeset from scratch with a larger font in a single column.