Instructions for the Officer of the Fishery

under the Act 48 Geo.III. Cap.110. intituled "An Act for the further encouragement and better regulation of the British White Herring Fishery....."

Edinburgh, printed by Sir D.Hunter Blair and J.Bruce, 1809

small 8vo. pp6, 119 + 16 pages of contemporary manuscript notes

a good copy in the original plain grey paper boards - paper worn away from the spine

the instructions issued to the Officers of the Scottish Fishery to assist them in their work of enforcing the 1809 Herring Fisheries act