The ninth Bridgewater treatise. :. A fragment. /. By Charles Babbage.
Charles Babbage (1791 - 1871)
Category
Books
Date
1837
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Chastleton House, Oxfordshire
NT 3257906
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4],240 p. :. ill., tables :. 23 cm. Upper boards disbound. Wanting spine cover and front and back endpapers. Signatures at front of textblock coming loose. Inserted between pages 34 and 35, 16x10cm piece of paper, torn. Inserted between pages 128 and 129, 25x18cm piece of paper with mathematical graph on one side in blue ink, and kitchen sink measurements on reverse, folded; 33x20cm piece of paper with mathematical equations on one side in blue ink, folded twice. In ink at foot of title page: '1837'. Pencil marks on pages 33 and 45, annotations in blue and black ink on publisher's advertisement recto. Provenance: in ink on half-title, author's presentation inscription: 'J. Whitmore Jones Esqr. from the Author'. Binding: nineteenth-century grained cloth over boards (stained), with remnants of label at foot of upper boards. Yellow endpapers.
Makers and roles
Charles Babbage (1791 - 1871)