The complete book of trades, or, The parent's guide and youth's instructor : forming a popular encyclopaedia of trades, manufactures, and commerce, as at present pursued in England, with a more particular regard to its state in and near the metropolis : including a copious table of every trade, profession, occupation, and calling, however divided and subdivided : together with the apprentice fee usually given with each, and an estimate of the sums required for commencing business
A London trades encyclopaedia by Nathaniel Whittock, published by Thomas Tegg in 1842, written as a guide for parents and young people choosing an occupation. Its pictures are small engraved diagrams of roof trusses, a vise-like clamp and a dovetail or mortise joint, which a designer could use as clear, unfussy technical line drawings.
