Little Book of Early American Crafts and Trades (1807)

by Peter Stockham

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Charming 1807 children's book explains large variety of crafts and trades, with a full chapter devoted to each: spinner, basketmaker, hatmaker, jeweller, brickmaker and bricklayer, potter, dyer, plumber, apothecary, and others. 23 copperplate illustrations are excellent examples of early commercial art.… (more)

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Book of trades, or, Library of the useful arts, part 1

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Early American Crafts and Trades

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1807

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Unabridged republication of part 1 of the work The book of trades, or Library of the useful arts as published by Jacob Johnson in Whitehall (Philadelphia) and Richmond in 1807

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Charming 1807 children's book explains large variety of crafts and trades, with a full chapter devoted to each: spinner, basketmaker, hatmaker, jeweller, brickmaker and bricklayer, potter, dyer, plumber, apothecary, and others. 23 copperplate illustrations are excellent examples of early commercial art.

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