Fourth edition of this illustrated description of various 19th-century jobs, this copy lacking 2 plates of 67 total.
Very good overall.
Price: $450.00
"A journeyman copper-plate printer will earn forty shillings a week. And from a strongly engraved plate three or four thousand good impressions may be taken."
What did 19th-century children want to be when they grew up? THE BOOK OF TRADES presents a range of answers to that question. Each of the jobs in this title is accompanied by a fairly robust description of their duties, as well as a general expectation of pay for the young reader looking for a career. Some of the trades in this set of three volumes – for example, the tallow chandler and the wire-drawer – are charmingly archaic, while others – such as the brewer, or the watch-maker – remain remarkably unchanged. The trades concerned with book production, including bookbinder, type founder, and copper plate-printer, are of particular interest.
London: Tabart and Co, 1810. Three volumes, 12mo. 5.5'' x 3.5''. Contemporary quarter red sheepskin with pictorial printed boards. 23; 22; 20 plates; volume 2 lacking two plates (else complete). 210, [2]; 188, 12; 160, [16] pages. Volume 1 with original braided bookmark laced into headband. Contemporary ownership inscriptions to front pastedowsn, "George Delgarno Hill / 1814 / D.D. J.H." Small bookseller labels to front patstedowns, "H. M. Gilbert / Ye Olde Boke Shoppe, / 109 High Street, / Winchester," label partially removed in volume 1. Bindings with edgewear, some scuffing; light soil to front board of volume 1. Leaves with scattered soil, a couple of plates and gatherings loose, volume 3 without blank front endpaper. Plates sharp.
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