Robinson, Charles

Robinson, Charles (1870–1937),
British illustrator, son of Thomas Robinson who was an artist and engraver; along with his two brothers William Heath Robinson and Thomas Heath Robinson, he worked in the Arts and Crafts tradition. In 1899 he and his brothers illustrated Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen for Dent. Before that he had already illustrated Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses and Aesop's Fables. In the same year, he also drew illustrations for Charles Perrault's Tales of Past Times, and in 1900–2 Dent published a three‐volume set, The True Annals of Fairy‐Land, edited by William Canton with Charles Robinson's illustrations.

In 1908 he illustrated Evelyn Martinengo Cesaresco's The Fairies'...

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