Heath Robinson Contraptions Tapa dura - 2007

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Duckworth. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0715636944 . Stiff unmarked book in brilliant orange cloth; in lightly rubbed dust jacket. ; 11.1 X 8.5 X 0.6 inches; 192 pages; A new edition of the most brilliant work of one of the most inventive minds in illustration and cartoon wizardry. Heath Robinson was one of Britain's most successful graphic artists. His work has had a huge influence on comic art in this country, but also on the image and self-image of the British. As the champion of pragmatic man, Heath Robinson presented a vision of the British as an unflappable, ingenious and slightly demented breed of inventors that persists to the present day. The British are still a nation of garage-haunting amateur engineers who will recognise the inhabitants of Heath Robinson's world, with their pot bellies and pots of tea, archaic faces and sturdily commonsensical approach to the problems of existence. How to hunt tigers by elephant,… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.