The taylor’s complete guide, or, A comprehensive analysis of beauty and elegance in dress : containing rules for cutting out garments of every kind, and fitting any person with the greatest accuracy and precision, adapted to all sizes, pointing out, in the clearest manner, the former errors in the profession, and the method of rectifying what may have been done amiss ... : to which is added, A description to cut out and make the patent elastic habits and cloaths, without the usual seams ... / the whole concerted and devised by a society of adepts in the professionAllen and West, bookseller[1799?]Priced at 10s. 6d., this is one of the earliest trade manuals to have been printed in England. The plates attempt to provide the reader with an analytical overview of tailoring, a trade usually learned through observation and practice."N.B. The purchasers of the Taylor’s guide are respectfully informed, that when the work was first put to press, the proprietors intended to have four plates, and in the course of the work have accordingly referred to plates, A, B, C, and D, but when the work was completed, they found the whole of the patterns could be comprised in three large plates, therefore whenever reference is made to plate C for any article, it will be found by examining either plate B or D"--P. [2] at end.mixed material