The Complete Book of Trades, frontispiece

The frontispiece illustrates two trades: 1) “house painter” with three painters working together to paint a room, the youngest a boy mixing the paints, and 2) “Herald and Sign Painter,” with two men painting elaborate designs and portraits inside of a fashionable home. The title page is decorated with four young children playing with various tools of trades, one using a compass, another holding a book, and another pounding a chisel. The young age of the children and their cherubic loose clothing creates a stylized effect of children playing at work rather than working.