The genuine art of gauging made easy and familiar; : exhibiting all the principal methods actually practiced by the officers of His Majesty's revenue of excise and customs: also, the established rules for finding the areas and contents of stills, of wash bucks by ordinates, of coppers, cisterns, casks, &c., either when full or part empty; with brewers and all other utensils of an irregular form, &c.; and instructions for gauging by the callipers, as practised both in the port of London, and all the out ports: to which is added, the method of ascertaining the strength of spiritous liquors by the hydrometer, with a variety of information on different points connected with the subject. A work that will be found useful not only to young officers, surveyors, and supervisors of the excise and customs, but also to auctioneers, brewers, brandy merchants, cider dealers, &c. distillers, glass makers, maltsters, rectifiers, soap makers, starch makers, sweet makers, victuallers, and innkeepers, vinegar makers, wine merchants, &c. and more or less to persons of every description. /
Jonas, Peter.
Stopes, Henry,1852-1902,former owner.StEdNL
London: : Printed for Dring and Fage, 20, Tooley Street, Borough, hydrometer makers to the Honourable Board of Excise.,
1806..
The recto of the first front endpaper has the manuscript signature "H. Stopes / Mar 2. 1889.".
Gaging.
Liquors
England London.