Contraptions: a timely new edition by a legend of inventive illustrations and cartoon wizardry

Mechanically convoluted depictions.

The perfect coffee table book

For those who said the print sucks, come on it’s from early century, common sense. Best art from the artist.

Really enjoying it.Keep going back to it.Quirky.

For those hoping to have excellent quality prints of these excellent Heath Robinson artworks you’ll be very disappointed in the mixed quality this book offers. While it contains a good range of illustrations, some pages are sharp, clean, well colour adjusted images, while many pages (including some of the best illustrations) are blurred low-resolution images with muddy details (see image of one blurred image, followed by a sharp one on the next page). The variable print quality is inexplicable. A really disappointing purchase given as a gift.

Half the images are so out of focus, grainy, and faded-looking that they look like someone took photos of pictures from an old newspaper with a bad camera. Returned for a refund forthwith. I bought another book from Pook Press on his fairy tale illustrations : same problem. So I would avoid this publisher if you want a good quality art book.

I’ve loved Heath Robinson’s work since I was a child. This is a beautiful book which I will treasure.