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INSCRIBED TO HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW BABBAGE, CHARLES. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures. [4], xxiv, 387, [1] pages, including engraved title. Small 8vo, original cloth, rubbed, partial fading on rear cover, recased with spine ends restored; light dampstain and foxing on title. 19th-century booklabels of the Honorable Arthur Dillon and J. Salkeld. London, 1832
Second edition, enlarged, of the first book on operations research, published the same year as the original edition. Hook & Norman, Origins of Cyberspace 43 (this copy).inscribed by babbage to his brother-in-law on a leaf tipped in before the title page: "To Sir Edward Ryan with the Authors kindest regards." Ryan (1793-1875), a lawyer and civil service commissioner, was married to the sister of Babbage's wife.
