"Coming down from earliest times to the year 1762, Anderson's work is a monument of stupendous industry. Composed in the form of annals, it is not merely a record of commercial progress and colonial enterprise, but a history of the political, industrial, and social development of all civilised countries, and especially of Great Britain and Ireland" (DNB). "The author was a clerk in the South-Sea House, London. It contains a most accurate account of the South-Sea Company, and the very extraordinary actions of the year 1720." (Sabin). Sabin 1382; Kress 6154.