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' ('Dictionary of National Biography'). More