Every man his own gauger: wherein not only the artist is shown a more ready and exact method of gauging than any hitherto extant. But the most ignorant, who can but read English, and tell twenty in figures, is taught to find the content of any sort of cask or vessel, either full, or in part full; and to know if they be right siz'd. Also what a pipe, hogshead, &c. amounts to at the common rate and measure they buy or sell at. With several useful tables to know the content of any vessel by. Likewise a table shewing the price of any commodity, from one pound to an hundred weight, and the contrary. To which is added, the art of brewing beer, ale, mum; of fining, preserving and botling brew'd liquors, of making the most common physical ales now in use, of making several fine English wines. The vintners art of fining, curing, preserving and rectifying all sort of wines, ... Together with the compleat coffee-man, teaching how to make coffee, tea, chocolate, ... By J. Lightbody, philomath.

People / Organizations

• Anne Baldwin ("printed by and for", or "by/for and sold by")

Imprint

London: printed, and sold by A. Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, [between 1698 and 1700?]

Publication year

1698-1700

ESTC No.

R218134

Grub Street ID

92843

Description

[4], 68 p. ; 12⁰

Note

Wing wrongly reports title: Every man his own gauge.

Date of publication suggested by Wing.

After imprint: Price 6 d.

Another issue of Wing L2048 with a different imprint and no text on title page verso.

Uncontrolled note

Quire [A] shows a possible error in imposition with the following page sequencence [A]1r, [A]1v, [A]2v, [A]2r; verify if present in any other copies