Frontispiece to a collection of engravings of shipping and vessels by Henry Moses. Title is printed over a depiction of a ship's stern, with a dockyard in the left-hand background and more vessels on the open sea in the right-hand background. A man standing on a rowboat by the stern gestures at the title to his three seated companions. Production information printed on a spar floating in the water in front of the stern: "Published by Henry Moses, Portland Place Wandsworth Road. Decr. 1 1824." In lower margin is printed "Printed by Chatfield and Coleman."
Pen inscriptions at upper corners appear to be from original bookseller, specifying the price.