The History of the Public Revenue of the British Empire. Containing an Account of the Public Income and Expenditure from the Remotest Periods recorded in History, to Michaelmas 1802. With a Review of the Financial Administration of the Right Honorable William Pitt. The third edition
London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1803, 1803 and 1804 [revised third edition]/ 1784. Sir John Sinclair (1754-1835), first president of the Board of Agriculture and voluminous writer. This work was 'a standard treatise, which was long one of the chief authorities on the subject' (DNB). More