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William Heath Robinson

Male : Cartoonist and book Illustrator, esp known for his fantastically humorous drawings of machines. Son of wood engraver Thomas Robinson, brother of Charles & Thomas.
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Hornsey, London

Date of Birth : 1872 Date of Death : 1944 Age : 72

Education : Islington Sch of Art & Royal Academy Schools
Hans Christian ANDERSEN : Danish Fairy Tales & Legends (1897 Sands)
Fairy Tales
(1899 Dent) - with C Robinson & T Robinson
Fairy Tales
(1913 Constable) (1913 Constable. De Luxe Ed 100)
Fairy Tales
(1923 Hodder & Stoughton. New Ed) (1927 H & S. Re-issue of 1923 Ed)
ARABIAN NIGHTS : The Arabian Nights' Entertainments
(1899 Newnes/Constable)
- & Helen Stratton, et al
The Child's Arabian Nights
(1903 Grant Richards)
John BUNYAN : The Pilgrim's Progress
(1897 Sands)
Roland CARSE : The Monarchs of Merry England
(nd. 1908 Alf Cooke) - 4 vols
More Monarches of Merry England
(1908 Unwin)
The Monarchs of Merry England & More Monarchs of Merry England
(1908 Unwin)
CERVANTES : The Life & Exploits of Don Quixote
(1897 Sands)
The Adventures of Don Quixote of La Mancha
(1902 Dent)
William CHAUCER
(Retold by Janey Harvey Kelman) : Stories (nd. 1905 Jack)
L M C CLOPET : Once Upon a Time
(1944 Muller)
William CROOKE : The Talking Thrush
(1899 Dent)
(Ed) George L GOMME : The Queen's Story Book (1898 Constable) (1898 Longman, NY)
(Ed) G HODGSON : Rama and the Monkeys (1903 Dent)
A R HOPE : Tales for Toby
(1900 Dent)
Norman HUNTER
The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm
(1933 JL, Bodley Head)
Stories of Professor Branestawm
(1939 Arnold)
Charles KINGSLEY : The Water Babies
(1915 Constable)
Rudyard KIPLING
A Song of the English
(1909 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling
(1910 Doubleday Page US)
(Ed) Jeanie LANG
Stories from the Iliad
(1906 Jack)
(Ed) Stories from the Odyssey (1906 Jack)
Walter de la MARE : Peacock Pie
(1916 Constable)
Florence MARRYAT : A Soul on Fire
(1898 Sands)
E S MUNRO : Topsy Turvy Tales
(1923 JL, The Bodley Head)
Charles PERRAULT : Old Time Stories
(1921 Constable)
R E RASPE : The Surprising Travels & Adventures of Baron Munchausen
(1902 Grant Richards)
W H D ROUSE : The Giant Crab & Other Tales from Old India
(1897 David Nutt)
The Talking Thrush
(1902 Dent)
William SHAKESPEARE : A Midsummer Nights' Dream
(1914 Constable)
Offered in 1997 for £345
J H E SCHUCK : Medieval Stories
(1902 Sands)

1902-1920
The Adventures of Uncle Lubin
(1902 Grant Richards) (1902 Brentano NY)
(1925 Grant Richards. New Ed)
The Child's Arabian Nights
(1903 Grant Richards)
Bill the Minder
(1912 Constable) (1912 Constable. De Luxe Ed 380) (1924 H & S)
Some Frightful War Pictures
(1915 Duckworth)
Offered in 1991 for £285
Hunlikely !
(1916 Duckworth)
Offered for £295 in 1998
The Saintly Hun : A Book of German Virtues
(nd.1917 Duckworth) - pb
Get on With It
(Cartoons) (1920 Robinson & Birch)
A Jamboree of Laughter
(nd. 1920 A V N Jones) - pb

1921-1940
Fly Papers
(Cartoons) (1921 Duckworth)
The Home Made Car
(1921 Duckworth)
Motor Mania
(nd.1921 The Motor Owner) - pb
Quaint and Selected Pictures
(nd.1922 G Heath Robinson & J Birch)
Peter Quip in Search of a Friend
(1922 Partridge)
Humours of Golf
(1923 Methuen)
Offered in 1991 for £350
The Heath Robinson Calendar
(1933-36 Delgardo)
Absurdities : A Book of Collected Drawings
(nd. 1934 Hutchinson)
Heath Robinson's Book of Goblins
(1934 Hutchinson)
Railway Ribaldry
(1935 GWR)
How to Live in a Flat
(nd.1936 Hutchinson)
How to be a Perfect Husband
(nd.1937 Hutchinson)
My Line of Life
(1938 Blackie) - autobiography
How to Make a Garden Grow
(nd.1938 Hutchinson) - with K R G Browne
Let's Laugh : A Book of Humorous Inventions
(1939 Hutchinson)
How to be a Motorist
(1939 nd Hutchinson)
Mein Rant
(1940 Blackie) - by Richard Patterson
How to Make the Best of Things
(nd.1940 Hutchinson)

After 1941
How to Build a New World
(nd.1941 Hutchinson)
Heath Robinson at War
(1942 Methuen)
How to run a Commercial Home
(nd.1943 Hutchinson) - with Cecil Hunt
The Penguin Heath Robinson
(1966 Penguin) - pb
Inventions
(1973 Duckworth)
The Gentle Art of Advertising
(1979 Duckworth)
Great British Industries
(1985 Duckworth)
Meals on Wheels
(1989 Souvenir Press)

PERIODICALS
Bystander, Good Housekeeping, Good Words, Grant Richards' Children's Annual, Graphic, Humorist,
Little Folks, London Opinion, Nash's Magazine, Pearson's Magazine, Playbox Annual,
Radio Times, Sketch, Strand

READING
A E Johnson : The Book of W Heath Robinson
(1913) (1930 A & C Black)
Langston Day : The Life and Art of W Heath Robinson
(1947 Michael Joseph)
J Lewis : Heath Robinson - Artist and Comic genius
(1973 Constable)
(Ed) David Larkin : The Fantastic Paintings of Charles & William Heath Robinson
(1976 Bantam Books, London)
A J Horne : The Art of William heath Robinson
(1977 Univ of Toronto Library)
Geoffrey C Beare : The Illustrations of W Heath Robinson
(1983 Werner Shaw)
G Beare : W Heath Robinson - The Inventive Comic Genius of Our Age
(1987 Beetles)
G Beare : The Brothers Robinson - A Catalogue
(1992 Beetles)
James Hamilton : William Heath Robinson
(1992 Pavilion)

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