handicraftsman

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It was still, happily, the age of the handicraftsman; the machinery age was yet to come.

From Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck by Williams, Harrison

Menah or Menyah=artificer, artisan, builder, handicraftsman; cf. verb men=to build, found, establish, erect, also menta'al=to govern.

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia

Now that the designer and the handicraftsman are separate persons, the work of the former is unreal, and of the latter merely mechanical.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

The shop-keepers in this and every other town must break and starve: for it is the landed man that maintains the merchant, and shop-keeper, and handicraftsman.

From Political Pamphlets by Saintsbury, George

He is now fast becoming extinct also—that is, as a distinct handicraftsman spending his whole time in such trapping.

From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Jefferies, Richard