First edition. 8vo. xxii, 677, [1, blank], 2 [publisher’s advertisements] pp., frontispiece statistical graph printed in red and black on grid paper, statistical tables throughout. Original brick red cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, ruling continued to boards in blind. A very fine copy. London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1924.
A popular textbook on public finance by the Scottish economist George Findlay Shirras (1885-1955).
