The book of trades, or, Library of the useful arts. Part II
The Book of Trades, or Library of the Useful Arts, Part II, was issued in London in 1811 by Tabart and Co. for a juvenile readership, and its engraved plates present working trades with captioned scenes. The four visible plates are faint, but the two finished ones show a hair-dresser dressing a seated customer's hair beside a window and a cutler at a grindstone with a foot-treadle wheel, both drawn plainly with clear figures and workshop props, offering a designer period-accurate workshop scenes with legible tools and captions.
