Vivid descriptions of various job types, with real examples of real people and places involved in the different jobs. This expanded edition with both volumes bound together contains chapters on women's professions, German guild information, physicians, life in the 18th and 19th centuries, blacksmiths, shepherds, clockmaker, book binder, steeple warden, charlatans, chimney sweep, alms collector, etc. (385pp. Author, 2001.)