BABBAGE, Charles (1792-1871). Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on some of its Causes, London: B. Fellowes, 1830, 4° (306 x 235mm.), FIRST QUARTO EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed to front free endpaper "To the Royal Society of Edinburgh from the Author" (margins dust-soiled, occasional spotting, foredges frayed and brittle, partly unopened), original blue sugar paper wrappers (stitching loose, extremities chipped, partly torn away), preseverd in morocco-backed cloth folder. [Norman 91]

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BABBAGE, Charles (1792-1871). Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on some of its Causes, London: B. Fellowes, 1830, 4° (306 x 235mm.), FIRST QUARTO EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed to front free endpaper "To the Royal Society of Edinburgh from the Author" (margins dust-soiled, occasional spotting, foredges frayed and brittle, partly unopened), original blue sugar paper wrappers (stitching loose, extremities chipped, partly torn away), preseverd in morocco-backed cloth folder. [Norman 91]

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This work was "an outspoken attack on the management of the Royal Society, which contributed materially to the origin of the British Association in the following year" (DNB). An octavo edition was published simultaneously.

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