Bibliography Series:
#1: Robinson Family World War Art/Illustrations 1914 - 1945
We present the first of an ongoing bibliographical series on selected military/
war,maritime/naval,aviation artists. The Robinson family were a prominent
English family of illustrators in 19th. and 20th. centuries England.
Please feel free to email/write to us regarding omissions,corrections,
additions that you think will bolster the comprehensiveness and accuracy
of our bibliography.
Robinson,William Heath [WHR]
(b.May 31,1872[London,England] - d.September 13,1944)
Books:
- "Some Frightful' War Pictures"
London: Duckworth & Co. 1915 48 pages
The drawings originally appeared in:
"The Sketch"and"The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News".
13.8cm x 21cm.
Issued in paper coversand quarter bound paper-covered boards with cloth
backs and silhouette designs on the endpapers. Reprinted in 1916 4 times.
Silhouette double-page(d.p.)illustrated endpapers,viz.:
Front endpaper: "Lighting Back"
Rear endpaper: "The Free Lance"
2 colour(black and red) pictorial paper covers front and back.
Pictorial title-page vignette and 7 black and white silhouettes other than
those silhouettes on the plate captions.
XXIV numbered full page black and white plates(halftones).
FURTHER EDITIONS:
Reprint edition: 1916
"Popular Edition": April,1916 and May,1916
NOTE: The May,1916 edition's plates are the same but the silhouettes
are completely different than the original 1915 edition's silhouettes.
MAY,1916 silhouettes: 29 silhouettes including one on the title-page
and one on the back cover page;remaining silhouettes are on the facing
plate caption pages(including a few with two different silhouettes).
- Goodchild,George (editor)
"The Blinded Soldiers and Sailor's Gift Book;..."
London: Jarrold & Sons 1915 231 pages
Two colour front cover heraldic vignette and 1 other vignette on spine.
Cream coloured cloth cover.
Page 133: full page colour process print entitled:
"Sir Galahad" - /`How It Was That Sir Galahad Came To Think He Had Been Suddenly
Transported To An Enchanted Forest.'"
- "'The Odd Volume' Edited by A.St.John Adcock Published in Aid Of The Funds Of The National Book Trade Provident Society"
London: Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co.Ltd. 1915 xlviii pages of advertisements,140 pages.
Page 57 - full page colour process print entitled:
"Danger!" By W.Heath Robinson. Smith and Jones (each to himself on sighting a
Zeppelin). Now we shall soon have an explosion."
- "The Queen's Gift Book"
London: Hodder & Stoughton 1916
24.5cm x 18.3cm
Light blue cloth blocked in blue. Many colour and black and white illus.
by various artists including 1 colour plate by William Heath Robinson(WHR)
tipped onto a grey card mount and 3 line drawings to illustrate
"The Man of Words" by Mrs.Henry de la Pasture.
- "Hunlikely"
London: Duckworth & Co. 1916 56 pages
25.2cm x 18.7cm.
Quarter bound in buff paper-covered boards and a design on the front as
well as a design on the brown cloth spine(both being red coloured silhouettes).
Decorated endpapers: Front endpaper entitled - "Washing Day On Board A Zeppelin"
Rear endpaper entitled - "Idle Moments". Silhouette vignette on titlepage and
30 other silhouette vignettes.
Pictorial vignette on titlepage and 24 full page
black and white(halftone) plates. Page 4: "The full page drawings originally appeared
in the undermentioned journals....: "The Sketch",
"The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic
News","The Strand Magazine","Pearson's Magazine","London Opinion".
Two series of pictures are included,viz.: "Wangling War Films" [4 plates] and
"For The War Inventions Board" [8 plates].
- "The Saintly Hun: a book of German virtues"
London: Duckworth & Co. 1917 48 pages
33.7cm x 21.3cm.
Many of the drawings are silhouettes(full page).
- "'The Odd Volume' Edited by A.St.John Adcock Published in Aid Of The Funds Of The National Book Trade Provident Society"
London: Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co.Ltd. 1917 xlviii pages of advertisements,140 pages.
Page 29 - 1 full page black and white plate entitled:
"Unpleasant Termination Of/The Crown Prince's Birthday/Party"/By W.Heath Robinson/
(Copyright in USA by W.Heath Robinson)."
- "Flypapers"
London: Duckworth & Co. 1919 64 pages
30.5 cm x 21.3 cm.
Saddle-stitched in paper covered paper covers printed in blue and black. A compilation
of 30 previously published war-time periodical cartoons related to flying.
- Deighton,E.Lonsdale(editor)
"The British Legion Album In Aid of Field-Marshal Earl Haig's Appeal for Ex-Service Men Of All Ranks."
London: Cassell and Company Ltd. [1924] (non-paginated)
A fund-raising gift book with coloured and black and white plates by various British
artists. The book consists mainly of autographs partly arranged occupationally along
with poety and scored music.
1 full page black and white line cartoon(signed) entitled:
"Cupid's Warning"
- Robinson,W.Heath and Hunt,Cecil
"How to Make The Best of Things"
London: Hutchinson & Co.(Publishers),Ltd. [ n.d. (1940)] viii,120 pages.
Pink pictorial shilhouette end-papers depicting observation balloons being used
as party platforms[!] and 125 line drawings(though a few are silhouettes).
Blue cloth cover with black pictorial front cover illustration.
- Patterson,R.F.
"Mein Rant"
London: Blackie & Son Ltd. 1940 x,70 pages.
19.5cm x 13.1cm.
Light brown cloth cover titled in dark brown.
6 full page and 6 half-page line drawings.
- "Heath Robinson at War"
London: Methuen 1942 48 pages.
Green cloth-covered boards printed in black with wrapper printed in black and yellow.
Line drawings.
Periodical illustrations
World War I era published illustrations of WHR
"London Opinion": 1914-1918,1920
"The Sketch": 1914-1919
"The Strand Magazine": 1914-1920
"The Illustrated and Sporting & Dramatic News": 1915-1920
"Pearson's Magazine": 1915,1917-1920
"Grand": 1916
"The Bystander": 1917-1920
"Flying": 1917-1919
"The Graphic": 1918-1920
"Out and Away": 1919-1920
"London Magazine": 1920
World War II ear published illustrations of WHR
"The Humorist"[sic]: 1939-1940
"Illustrated": 1939-1940
"London Opinion": 1939-1940
"The Sketch": 1939-1942
"The Strand Magazine": 1939-1940
"The Aeroplane": 1941-1942
"Holly Leaves": 1941-1944
"The Radio Times": 1941-1942
Robinson,Thomas Heath [THR]
(b.June 19,1869 [London,England] - d.February ,1953 [St.Ives,Cornwall])
-
Bridges,T.C.
"With Beatty in the North Sea,a story of our gallant navy"
London: Collins 1917 232 pages.
25 cm x 18.5 cm Blue cloth blocked in gold and black with pictorial inlay in colours
repeating one of the colour plates inside the volume. 4 colour plates by T.H.Robinson and
photographs.
-
Hayens,Herbert
"From Anzac to Buckingham Palace,a tale of the VC"
London: Collins 1917
25.5 cm x 18.5 cm Red cloth blocked in black and gold with spine decoration by T.H.Robninson.
Paper inlay in colours from one of the 4 colour plates by T.H.Robinson.
-
Strang,Herbert
"With Haig on the Somme"
[London]: Henry Frowde,Hodder and Stoughton 1917
[London]: Humphrey Milford,Oxford University Press 1930 284 pages and 4 pages of publisher's advertisements
18.5 cm x 12.5 cm. Red cloth embossed blind and blocked in crimson and gold.
Decorated title-page,colour frontispiece and 15 black and white illustrations from pen drawings by THR.
-
Hayens,Herbert
"Under Haig and Foch"
[London]: Collins, [n.d.(circa 1920? but probably is c.1918[?])]
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