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.
Octavo, three volumes, [ii] (half-title), xvi, 532; viii, 412, 63 (appendices); and viii, 320, 196 (appendices) pages.
Relatively recent quarter calf and cloth; leather slightly rubbed, with the head of the spine of one volume a little bumped; small surface abrasions to the front pastedowns where a binder's label has been removed; small ink stamp partially erased from the verso of each title-page (forming two small holes in and near the subtitle text of the second one); minimal scattered pale foxing; overall an excellent uncut set.
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').
Item #71257
Price (AUD):
$450.00