Product Description: This is a collection of the comic fantasies of the great English artist William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) whose name passed into the English language during his lifetime. Most people know of and love his elementary mechanical world - ancient wooden cogwheels, intricate pulleys, fragile gantries, ingenious tunnels, magnets, and steam kettles kept on the boil by a lighted candle or two; the whole enterprise held together by knotted string and operated by serious workmen with a sprinkling of soberly top-hatted company directors in charge...read more

Product Description: A collection of humorous drawings on the subject of golf which first appeared in 1923.

A collection of twelve classic French fairy tales, including 'The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood,' 'Puss in Boots,' and 'Blue Beard'

The story of a poor young man's fateful encounter with a powerful genie is accompanied by other magical tales from the Orient, in a beautifully illustrated edition of the classic folktales.

This handsomely bound edition of one of the bard's most beloved romantic comedies features printed endpapers, a ribbon marker, and a three-piece case.

Product Description: William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) dreamed of a romantic life as an itinerant landscape painter. Instead, he remained in North London and became the greatest comic draughtsman of the century, and one of those rare individuals whose names have entered the language as adjectives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N. Y.)

Product Description: In the 1930s, William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) was known as "the gadget king" and he is still most widely remembered for his wonderfully humorous drawings and illustrations of highly ingenious contraptions. This book includes over a hundred of his original works...read more

Product Description: Captain James Cook FRS RN (1728-1779) was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy. Cook was the first to map Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean during which he achieved the first European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands as well as the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand...read more

Product Description: When Germany invaded Poland on 1st September 1939, to reclaim the land they 'lost' after World War One, many feared that Britain would not honour the pledges of support to Poland they had given throughout 1939. Britain stood alone...read more

Product Description: William Heath Robinson was part of a family of artists that included brothers Thomas and Charles. Possibly his finest achievement as an illustrator is A Midsummer Night's Dream — a book meticulously and marvelously designed. From the half title, frontispiece, and exquisite title page, to the playful two-page spread that closes the book, this is a treatment of the play that will surprise and delight the eye on nearly every page...read more

Uncle Lubin attempts to rescue his nephew, who has been abducted by the horrid Bag-bird

Product Description: Edgar Allan Poe's dark obsessions and fascination with the supernatural find a perfect match in W. Heath Robinson's powerful and haunting imagery. This magnificently decorated hardcover edition re-creates a 1900 publication from the famed Endymion series of illustrated poets, offering Poe's complete output of poetry in addition to his most important critical essays on the form...read more

Product Description: First published for the centenary of the Great Western Railway in 1935, Railway Ribaldry is an affectionate and humorous look at life on board the company's famous trains, incorporating some of William Heath Robinson's own trademark madcap contraptions...read more

Product Description: A Song of the English by Rudyard Kipling

Product Description: Heath Robinson (1872–1944) is Britain’s “Gadget King”—master of the art of creating madcap contraptions that made use of ropes, weights, and pulleys to perform relatively simple tasks, from wart removal to peeling potatoes...read more

Product Description: The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan PoeIllustrated and Decorated by W. Heath RobinsonAbout this Edition71 Poems including;Silence (1839)The Haunted Palace (1839)Eulalie (1843)Lenore (1843)The Conqueror Worm (1843)Lines on Joe Locke (1843)Dream-Land (1844)Epigram for Wall Street (1845)Impromptu...read more

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