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BABBAGE, CHARLES. 1791-1871. The Exposition of 1851; or, Views of the Industry, the Science and the Government, of England. London: John Murray, 1851.
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BABBAGE, CHARLES. 1791-1871.
The Exposition of 1851; or, Views of the Industry, the Science and the Government, of England. London: John Murray, 1851.
8vo (224 x 140 mm). Original green cloth stamped in gilt and blind, rebacked with pieces of the original spine. Light spots to endpapers, extremities lightly rubbed and sunned.
Provenance: Henry Prevost Babbage (Ownership signature and presentation label); Cheltenham Public Library (bookplates and "withdrawn" stamp).
PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY BABBAGE; SECOND EDITION WITH APPENDIX ON "BABBAGE'S CALCULATING MACHINE." Inscription in full: "To Miss Kniglake from the Author." "Babbage had been proposed to head the Industrial Commission for the Great Exhibition of 1851, but was rejected because of his early radicalism and his conflicts with the government over the Difference Engine. Resentful over his treatment, Babbage decided to publish a book on the Exhibition to set before the public the ideas that he otherwise would have presented to the Exhibition's governing committees. Babbage's Difference Engine, although certainly one of the engineering marvels of the nineteenth century, was not included in the Exhibition" Hook & Norman Origins of Cyberspace 67.
8vo (224 x 140 mm). Original green cloth stamped in gilt and blind, rebacked with pieces of the original spine. Light spots to endpapers, extremities lightly rubbed and sunned.
Provenance: Henry Prevost Babbage (Ownership signature and presentation label); Cheltenham Public Library (bookplates and "withdrawn" stamp).
PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY BABBAGE; SECOND EDITION WITH APPENDIX ON "BABBAGE'S CALCULATING MACHINE." Inscription in full: "To Miss Kniglake from the Author." "Babbage had been proposed to head the Industrial Commission for the Great Exhibition of 1851, but was rejected because of his early radicalism and his conflicts with the government over the Difference Engine. Resentful over his treatment, Babbage decided to publish a book on the Exhibition to set before the public the ideas that he otherwise would have presented to the Exhibition's governing committees. Babbage's Difference Engine, although certainly one of the engineering marvels of the nineteenth century, was not included in the Exhibition" Hook & Norman Origins of Cyberspace 67.