FINCHAM (John). An Introductory Outline of the Practice of Ship-Building, &c. &c.1825

Portsea: Printed and sold by William Woodward, Send edition, 8vo (209 x 125 mm), xii, xxii, 254, [2]pp., with final errata leaf, 4 tables at rear (2 of which are folding), some age-toning to text, marbled endpapers, cont. blue diced morocco, covers with gilt border, inner dentelles and edges tooled in gilt, spine with four raised bands, second compartment with a red morocco label lettered in gilt, others tooled gilt extra, a very attractive binding. A rare work, in a fine binding, published to assist the students at the School of Naval Architecture at Portsmouth and the students at the Royal Naval College.