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The practical gager : or the young gager's assistant. Containing those things which are actually practised, and which are also absolutely necessary to be known and understood by every person that is employed as a gager or officer in the Revenue of Excise. To which are added, All the necessary Tables for gaging and fixing the Utensils of Victuallers, Common Brewers, and Distillers: Also for moneying the several Sorts of Goods, or for finding the Amounts of the Charges. Very useful for Supervisors, Officers, and Collectors Clerks. Second edition. With an appendix; containing several additions, viz. the Method of gaging by equidistant Ordinates; inching and tabulating of close Casks; and Specimens of Vouchers and Abstracts for the several Duties. Dedicated (by permission) to the honourable Commissioners of Excise by William Symons, Supervisor of Excise.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Symons, William.
- Series:
- Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gaging--Early works to 1800.
- Gaging.
- Gaging--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Excise tax--Great Britain--Tables.
- Excise tax.
- Taxation--Great Britain--Rates and tables.
- Taxation.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Tables.
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Tables (Data)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages,xii,207 pages, 1 unnumbered page,207-255 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 8⁰
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed for J. Nourse at the Lamb opposite Katherine-Street in the Strand, 1758.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- A reissue of the sheets of the 1754 edition, including the titlepage, with the addition of a new titlepage, dedication and pp. 207-255,[3].
- The register is continuous despite the pagination.
- With three final pages of advertisements.
- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Cited in:
- English Short Title Catalog, T224773.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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