W. Heath Robinson was born in London in 1872 into a long line of artists. He aspired to be a landscape painter, but had little commercial success and so followed his father and brothers into commercial book and magazine illustration. He provided the artwork for a number of books, including Don Quixote, The Water Babies, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Pilgrim's Progressbefore writing his first of three children's book in 1902, The Adventures of Uncle Lubin,Bill the Minder (1912) and Peter Quip in Search of a Friend (1922). Uncle Lubin is regarded as the start of his career in the depiction of unlikely machines.
Frontispiece
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD
PUSS IN BOOTS
LITTLE TOM THUMB
THE FAIRIES
RICKY OF THE TUFT
CINDERELLA
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
BLUEBEARD
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
THE FRIENDLY FROG
PRINCESS ROSETTE
