Illustrations of Trades
Details:
- Author(s) Tomlinson, Charles
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published c1867
- Pages 2nd ed; 112pp; illus
- Publisher Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
First published c1860. Describes skills of craftsmen working outside machine production - namely: 'Trades relating to shelter' [brickmaker, bricklayer, mason, carpenter and joiner, slater, plumber, plasterer, whitewasher, house painter, glazier, paper stainer, paper hanger]; 'Trades relating to locomotion' [surveyor, roadmaker, bridge builder, canal engineer, railway and marine engineer, shipwright, coachmaker, saddler, farrier; 'Trades relating to production of furniture' [cabinetmaker, upholsterer, turner, picture frame guilder, gold beater, goldsmith and silversmith, tinman]; 'Trades relating to clothing' [tailor, shoemaker]; Trades relating to education [printer, bookbinder, engraver]; 'Miscellaneous' [cooper, soap boiler, sewing machine]. Associated with Charles Tomlinson, Illustrations of Useful Arts and Manufactures, c1859, which deals with industrial processes