This illustration is by Charles Robinson, from the first edition of The Child's Christmas, a book published by Blackie press in 1906, exactly a century ago. This is one of over 2,000 images lovingly scanned and preserved online by Minh Lai, showcasing the work of classic children's book illustrators from the early twentieth century.
To see the whole gallery, go to the nocloo.com - Children's Book Illustrators website, and click on the Gallery tab. Be prepared to spend an hour or two browsing through the wonderful work on display, though. You've been forewarned, now...
Two more images, these by illustrator Kay Nielsen, created for the 1913 book In Powder and Crinoline, Old Fairy Tales Retold (click on the image for a larger size view):
See also the images on this website, which contains larger-resolution scans of many of the books from the same collection. There is truly some staggeringly beautiful work here.
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