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      Bill the Minder (signed ltd ed)
      Bill the Minder (signed ltd ed)
      Bill the Minder (signed ltd ed)
      Bill the Minder (signed ltd ed)
      Bill the Minder (signed ltd ed)
      Bill the Minder (signed ltd ed)
      Bill the Minder (signed ltd ed)
      Bill the Minder (signed ltd ed)
      Bill the Minder (signed ltd ed)
      Bill the Minder (signed ltd ed)
      Bill the Minder (signed ltd ed)
      Bill the Minder (signed ltd ed)
      Bill the Minder (signed ltd ed)
      Bill the Minder (signed ltd ed)
      Bill the Minder (signed ltd ed)
      Bill the Minder (signed ltd ed)
      Bill the Minder (signed ltd ed)
      Bill the Minder (signed ltd ed)
      Bill the Minder (signed ltd ed)

      Bill the Minder (signed ltd ed)

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      VW7M82
      Robinson, W. Heath.
      Publisher's vellum, titles and illustrations to spine and front cover gilt, original silk ties intact
      4to, 28.7cm
      W. Heath Robinson
      [xvi], 256pp
      London
      1912
      Constable
      Yes
      Description:

      "In Bill the Minder Heath Robinson really found himself. The story is a simple tale or a series of tales about the wanderings of the King of Troy and a boot-cleaner called Bill, who became the Minder (today he would be called a baby-sitter) to the bad-tempered family of a bad-tempered mushroom-gatherer named Crispin. Like most of Heath Robinson's characters, Bill was a solemn little person who took his minding very seriously, even to the extent of studying at the British Museum and in the Minding Room of the Patents Museum at South Kensington. Soon his fame as a Minder spread and he found himself minding a large flock of children. One day they were out in the fields, being minded by Bill, they found an eccentric old man in a haystack. It was the King of Troy, who had been banished from his country. With Bill's assistance, the children set out on a journey, and through a series of adventures they restore this unworldly old gentleman to his throne. In the process they meet some very droll characters. These are the substance of some of Heath Robinson's wittiest drawings" (Lewis, p. 102). Beare 69b; Lewis, p. 216. Illustrated title page, 16 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, 117 black and white illustrations, including full title-pages, vignettes, head- and tailpieces in the text, all by W. Heath Robinson. Crease marks on spine and front cover and slight soiling, a little light foxing to first and last leaves, otherwise a fine and fresh copy.

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