Name: Bill the Minder.
Brand: ROBINSON, W. Heath.
SKU: 96186
Price: 645.00 USD
Availability: InStock

First trade edition of Heath Robinson's stories for children recounting the exploits of the King of Troy & his boot-cleaner Bill with plates by the author.

ROBINSON, W. Heath.

Bill the Minder.

London, Constable & Co., 1912.

$645.00

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A collection of 16 children's stories of the exploits of the King of Troy and his boot-cleaner Bill, exquisitely illustrated. The titles are: Bill the Minder; The King of Troy; The Ancient Mariner; The Triplets; Good Aunt Gallandia; 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.

First trade edition; 4to; frontispiece and 15 colour plates with captioned tissues guards and 126 black and white illustrations throughout by W. Heath Robinson, light spotting to endpapers and extreme edges, else very good; publisher's blue cloth gilt, the upper cover mounted with a pictorial plate, age-toned, bumped on spine ends and a little rubbed, otherwise a decent copy.

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Bill the Minder.

$645.00

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