Facsimile reprint of the original 1794 publication. xvi, 304pp, plus nine plate illustrations at rear and one folding diagram of ship architecture. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Cloth is a little tired and slightly marked, gently rounded at spine ends. Boards slightly bowed. A couple of small spots on endpapers else internally neat and clean. In its original dust wrapper. Dust wrapper has been fitted with a Brodart-style sleeve, which is slightly too small, crumpling the wrapper and creasing it at edges. The rear inner flap has been trimmed lengthways, front inner flap price clipped.
