Heath Robinson bundle #1 (THREE books)

THREE Heath Robinson books Meals On Wheels, William Heath Robinson by James Hamilton and Heath Robinson by Geoffrey Beare.

"Meals on Wheels" - Souvenir Press (0285629328) 64pp
Meals on Wheels: A Handbook on Food and Drink Made Simple, filled with quirky, over-engineered contraptions for eating, showcasing his signature style of absurdly ingenious devices that became synonymous with his name, even predating the name of the charity.

"William Heath Robinson" - Pavilion (9781857936049) 160pp
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. Although his name is now synonymous with any complicated, ramshackle mechanical apparatus for doing something relatively simple, the true Heath Robinson contraption was thought out with a child's solemn logic, executed with a craftsman's care, and accompanied by the ultimate in deadpan captions.

In this first full account of William Heath Robinson's life and work, James Hamilton draws on the Robinson family archives to explore the personality of this convivial family man and deeply serious artist. He traces the influences on his art, the development of his uniquely individual humorous style, and the unexpected path that his career followed: the switch from landscapes to book illustration, and early success as illustrator of Poe, Rabelais and Hans Andersen; the creation of his engaging comic character Uncle Lubin, his cartoons for magazines, and his First World War anti-German satires.

"Heath Robinson" - Dulwich Picture Gallery (9781898519232) 143pp
In the 1930s, William Heath Robinson 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.

Robinson's ambition was to become a landscape painter but he was forced to follow his brothers into book illustration, where his reputation was rapidly established. The creator of inimitable illustrations for poetry by Poe and Kipling, Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Midsummer Night's Dream, de la Mare's Peacock Pie, The Water Babies, and Perrault's Fairy Tales, he is ranked alongside Rackham and Dulac, achieving classic status around the world. He is also loved for the children's books that he both wrote and illustrated, The Adventures of Uncle Lubin and Bill the Minder.

Authors: Peter Haining, Geoffrey Beare, James Hamilton
Artist: Heath Robinson
Publisher: Souvenir Press, 1989/1992/2003 First Edition (Out of Print)
Number of pages: 64
Format: Soft Cover; Full Colour illustrations
Size: 9" x 12" (230mm x 300mm)
ISBN: 0285629328
Condition: VG - Very Good
Code: HEATHROBBUNDLE01