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Babbage (Charles) The Exposition of 1851; or, Views of the Industry, the Science, and the Government of England, first edition, half-title, ex-library copy with ink stamp to title and book label, original cloth, spine slightly faded and with small nick at head, cloth chemise and slip-case, [Tomash & Williams B24; Van Sinderen 61; Norman 95; Origins of Cyberspace 67], 8vo, John Murray 1851. ⁂ "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" (Norman).