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The extraordinary black book : comprising an exposition of the United Church of England and Ireland, civil list and crown revenues, incomes, privileges, and power, of the aristocracy, Privy Council, diplomatic, and consular establishments, law and judicial administration, representation and prospects of reform under the new ministry, profits, influence, and monopoly, of the Bank of England and East India Company, with strictures on the renewal of their charters, debt and funding system, salaries, fees and emoluments in courts of justice, public offices, and colonies, lists of pluralists, placemen, pensioners, and sinecurists / by the original editor.

Accession number
PML 136514
Creator
Wade, John, 1788-1875.
Published
London : Effingham Wilson, 1831.
Credit line
Bequest; Gordon N. Ray; 1987.
Notes
"The whole corrected from the latest official returns, and presenting a complete view of the expenditure, patronage, influence and abuses of the government, in church, state, law, and representation."
Attributed to John Wade by Kress Library.
First published in 1820 under the title: The black book; or, Corruption unmasked.
Publisher's advertisements (16 p.) at front.
Uncut.
Description
16, xx, 576 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
boards.
Classification
Department