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SUTHERLAND, William. Britain's Glory: or, Ship-Building Unvail'd. Being a general director, for building and contemplating the said machines, London: for A. Bettersworth, S. Fitzer & E. Midwinter, 1729, 2 parts in one volume, small 2°, second edition, title in red and black, folding engraved portrait frontispiece of George I surrounded by his fleet, 6 engraved plates, woodcut illustrations, 3 full-page (clean tear to 2D1 affecting 2 or 3 lines of text, browning, particularly to title and towards end), contemporary calf (rebacked and recornered, rubbed), ownership inscription of T. R. Guppy to title, dated Naples 1860. [Adams & Waters 3493]