The venerable librarian and antiquarian at
BibliOdyssey shares her latest exquisite discovery with the Fleet Street publication in the year 1900 of the children’s book on various callings
Jack of All Trades, scathingly rhymed and illustrated with clever out-set pictures by JJ Bell and C Robinson. Many of the unique vignettes are cautionary-tales, like this verse for creative minds:
There are two kinds of Artists,
And each has got an aim: The one he paints for pennies,
The other—does the same.
I wonder what these collaborators could say about employment nowadays, for those off the
payroll at least, like blogger, internet entrepreneur, day-trader or copyright lawyer.
