Black book - Volume I only (of two) : Or, Corruption unmasked!; being an account of places, pensions, and sinecures, the revenues of the Clergy and landed aristocracy; the salaries and emoluments in Courts of Justice and the Police Department; the expenditure of the Civil List; the amount and application of the droits of the Crown and Admiralty; the robbery of charitable foundations; the profits of the Bank of England, arising from the issue of its notes, balances of public money, management of Borough debt, and other sources of emolument; the debt, revenue and influence of the East India Company; the state of the finances, debt and sinking fund: to which are added, correct lists of both Houses of Parliament (from 1819 to the present time); showing their family connections, Parliamentary influence, the places and pensions held by themselves or relations: with a supplement and appendix: the whole forming a complete exposition of the cost, influence, patronage, and corruption of the Bor [Hardback]