The Art of Pierangelo Boog: Old-Time Stories by Charles Perrault with Illustrations by W. Heath Robinson

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 Progress before 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.