Bill the Minder. Written and illustrated by W. Heath Robinson
London, Hodder and Stoughton, [circa 1930s]/ [1912].
Quarto, 255 pages with numerous illustrations plus 16 tipped-in colour plates (all but the frontispiece have an illustrated captioned leaf preceding them).
Colour-pictorial yellow cloth a little mottled at the bottom corners; endpapers offset, with two contemporary gift labels mounted on the front flyleaf (near the inscribed date of 4 July 1937); trifling signs of age and use; an excellent copy with the price-clipped dustwrapper (with a colour plate mounted on the front panel) a little torn, sunned and slightly used.
The book was first published in 1912, before his name began to become synonymous with illustrations of fantastic and humorous contraptions.
Item #129985
Price (AUD):
$400.00