1784. · London
by [Holroyd, John B., Earl of Sheffield]
London, 1784.. 8,[6],287,[1]pp. plus eleven tables (of twelve), many folding, some occupying more than one page. Original boards, rebacked in paper at an early date, manuscript title on spine. Boards worn and stained, hinges cracked. Occasional foxing and staining, small tear along gutter of titlepage, chip in one table with some loss of text, one table detached. Lacking endpapers and one table. Good. Third edition, enlarged, first published the previous year. This report led to a bitter post-Revolutionary situation as England tried to constrain American trade. "Pointed out superciliously the helpless position of American commerce, and thus influenced (truncated)