Amateur work, illustrated
Amateur Work, Illustrated is a Victorian British handicraft manual published in London and New York by Ward, Lock & Co. in 1881 for home craftspeople and do-it-yourself builders. Its pictures are precise line engravings of working drawings: exploded views, elevations, plans and a patent countersink, with figure captions and scale notes. A designer could draw on them for clean technical diagram styling, labelled callouts and measured orthographic layouts.
