Jost Amman (1533-1591) was a Swiss book illustrator and one of the last major production artists working with woodcuts. He didn't set out to create a simple alphabet of trades, but did record them, and did so with great clarity, basically creating a 16th-century pre-photographic 'snapshot' of the ways in which people conducted their business and livelihood.
(via Everlasting Blort)
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