The instructions given to those hired to oversee the operation of the distillation industry were very detailed. Included in these direction were the following:
You are everyday to visit the distilling house of every common distiller, vinegar and mead-Maker, and also every maker of cyder and sweets...
And on order to keep the Officers to their duty, and to detect fraudulent workers, you are frequently to make check-surveys before 7 in the morning and after 7 or 8 at night.
Probably for convenience of use, the companion set of instructions for officers of the London distillery were bound in a dos-a-dos binding as seen here. A dos-a-dos binding is a technique used in which two books, usually small of a complementary nature are bound back to back so that they open in opposite directions, one of the three boards being the common lower board of both volumes.
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