Bill The Minder

Written & illustrated by

W Heath Robinson

Hardback

Circa 1920

255 pages.

No dust jacket.

Yellow cloth.

Published by Hodder & Stoughton

Printed in Great Britain

13 of the 16 colored plates tipped in

Many in-text line drawings

 

Robinson was an English cartoonist and illustrator, best known for drawings of ridiculously complicated machines used for achieving deceptively simple objectives. During the First World War, the term 'Heath Robinson' entered the English language as a description of any unnecessarily complex and implausible contrivance.

 

Along with illustrating many many classic works of other authors, Robinson wrote and illustrated three children's books, The Adventures of Uncle Lubin (1902), Bill the Minder (1912) and Peter Quip in Search of a Friend (1922).

 

Publisher's yellow cloth with black titles to spine and upper, and decoration in red and black. A collection of 16 children's stories of the exploits of the King of Troy and his boot-cleaner Bill. Includes:

Bill the Minder,

The King of Troy,

The Ancient Mariner,

The Triplets,

Good Aunt Galladia,

The Doctor,

The Respectable Gentleman,

The Sicilian Char-Woman,

The Interval,

The Real Soldier,

The Wild Man,

The Musician,

The Lost Grocer,

The Merchant's Wife,

The Camp-Followers,

The Siege of Troy.

 

This wonderful book follows the adventures of 15-year-old Bill the Minder and his two bad tempered cousins, Boadicea and Chad as they meet weird characters and have to solve bizarre problems by inventing fantastic machines.

 

This title was originally published in 1912, although this edition is circa 1920, and was made into a British television series in the 1980s.

 

This book has been well loved, the covers are smudged and dirty (see photos), there are three tipped in plates missing. But the art is GREAT!

 

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