A summary practical elucidation of national economy, in support of direct taxation and direct assessment.
Watt, Robert,Commercial Agent.
Edinburgh : R. Watt,
1848.
Some of the pieces were first published in various Scottish newspapers in the preceding decades although in almost every case the text has been altered or  added to.
The author anonymously published "A caution to bankers,  merchants, and manufacturers : against a series of commercial frauds prevalent throughout Great Britain and Ireland" in 1831 and a second series in 1833. This and the present  text point to the author having lived or closely been connected with Kirkcaldy, Fife. He also describes himself a 'Commercial Agent, General Commission  Office, No. 3 & 4 Haddington Place. Leith Walk, Edinburgh'.