8vo, in fours. 5.25 x 8 inches. [vi] + 47 pp. In original half tan calf over stiff card boards with printed paper label, Cruizers' Instructions, on front. Extremities worn and foxing at beginning; otherwise a good copy. Manuscript Distribution and Proportions of Reward notice, referring to 1824 order, pinned to verso of first free endpaper. One ink margin note dated 1823. Illustrated by specimen forms in text. A hitherto unrecorded publication dating from 1822, the year in which the the British Coast Guard was founded (called at first the Revenue Coast Guard). In that year the decision was made to amalgamate three separate anti-smuggling bodies: the Revenue Cruisers, the Riding Officers and the Preventative Water Guard, which had all been under the authority of HM Treasury. As of 15 January 1822, these services were placed under the authority of the Board of Customs and renamed the Coast Guard. The primary objective of this new body was to prevent the smuggling of dutiable goods into B