SUTHERLAND, William. Britain's Glory or Ship-Building Unvail'd; Being a general director for building and compeating the said machines, London: for Tho. Norris, Eben. Tracy, Arthur Bettesworth, and Benj. Pickard, 1717, 2°, FIRST EDITION, 2 parts in one volume, engraved frontispiece portrait by D. Vander Gucht of George I surrounded by a circular panorama of the Royal Navy (short, clean tear through engraver's name), 6 engraved plates, woodcut illustrations, three full-page (some browning and staining of page edges), 19th-century half calf (rubbed, upper joints cracked), Scott Library bookplate. [Scott 190; Adams & Waters 3488; Maggs Nautica 1182]

細節

SUTHERLAND, William. Britain's Glory or Ship-Building Unvail'd; Being a general director for building and compeating the said machines, London: for Tho. Norris, Eben. Tracy, Arthur Bettesworth, and Benj. Pickard, 1717, 2°, FIRST EDITION, 2 parts in one volume, engraved frontispiece portrait by D. Vander Gucht of George I surrounded by a circular panorama of the Royal Navy (short, clean tear through engraver's name), 6 engraved plates, woodcut illustrations, three full-page (some browning and staining of page edges), 19th-century half calf (rubbed, upper joints cracked), Scott Library bookplate. [Scott 190; Adams & Waters 3488; Maggs Nautica 1182]

拍品專文

Part II was published separately under the title The Prices of the Labour in Ship-Building Adjusted; or, The mystery of ship-building unveiled (London: printed by D. L., 1717). Although the binding is not contemporary, this is INTERNALLY A VERY ATTRACTIVE AND WELL PRESERVED COPY. Copies of the first edition in both parts are rare. Maggs priced their copy at £28 in 1933.