Ada Lovelace (14 results)

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. ntb edition. 144 pages. 8.00x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. ntb edition. 144 pages. 8.00x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Stated first edition. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. xv439pp. Maroon cloth in dust jacket. There is a review of the book affixed to the front endpapers.

blanda. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Nuevo.

Tapa blanda. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Nuevo.

blanda. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Nuevo.

OPpBd. xxiv,365 S. OU. Mit einigen Fotografien. Zustand: Gutes Exemplar. Fotos auf Anfrage.

Condition: New. Drawn from the manuscript collections at the Bodleian Library, this delightful softback notebook set features the distinctive handwriting of three remarkable women writers and thinkers: Jane Austen, Mary Shelley and Ada Lovelace. Inspirational and unusual, .

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: Bien. pp.128 20X14.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 11.5 x 3.5 cm. Neat black ink, unfoxed and unshipped, taken from old visitors book. F.

8vo (114 x 184 mm). 2 pp. on a bifolium with integral blank. Includes a steel-engraved portrait. A rare and early letter to Alfred Bunn, manager of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, informing him that she has decided to subscribe to a stall for the season and asking him to call at her home to settle its position and related arrangements: "Lady Lovelace presents Her Compliments to Mr Bunn, & has made up her mind to engage a Stall for the Season - 20 Guineas. She will be much obliged if Mr Bunn will be so good as to call in St James' Sqre on Saturday Morning at 10 o'clock, in order to settle the locality, & also some other arrangements which Lady L is desirous of making conditionally on the event of her absence for a small part of the season. Lady L expects also by Saturday to have communicated with two or three friends who may probably also engage Stalls for the whole or half of the Season". - Addressed to one of the most prominent theatre managers of the day, the letter records an act of patronage and attendance rather than abstract sociability, fixing Lovelace within the theatrical and social circuits of metropolitan London. Such evidence is especially desirable in her case, as autograph material by her remains notably scarce on the market. - Written from the St James's Square household in the years between her marriage and her great collaboration with Charles Babbage, the present letter belongs to the same cultivated milieu in which her mathematical ambitions were taking shape. - Includes a childhood portrait of Ada Lovelace engraved by W. H. Mote after Frank Stone, published in the mid-1830s. - Traces of original folds. Traces of former mount on verso of integral blank, gutter a bit lightened, professionally restored. - With a 1999 invoice from Patricia Clipson's Autograph Collectors Gallery of Nottingham, to a Mr Smith, for several autographs, including this one.…

First Edition. GODWIN, William. An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, And its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness. WITH: The Enquirer. Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1796, 1797. Three volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown calf and marbled boards. $10,500.First octavo edition of Godwin's revolutionary masterwork, the first edition with his extensive revisionsÑ"his passionate advocacy of individualism, his trust in the fundamental goodness of man, and his opposition to all restrictions on liberty have endured" (PMM)Ña profound influence on Jefferson, viewed as Godwin's "American born counterpart," this work uniformly bound with the first edition of Godwin's Enquiry signed on the title page by William King, an especially memorable association set from the estate library of King, Eighth Baron King and First Earl of Lovelace, and his wife, Ada Byron Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and famed as the first computer programmer in her work with Babbage, each volume with estate library inkstamps, spines with gilt-stamped "K" monograms and "suns," in contemporary calf and marbled boards.Godwin's Political Justice, triggered by Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) and a response to Montesquieu, remains "one of the earliest, the clearest, and most theoretical expositions of socialist and anarchist doctrineÉ his trust in the fundamental goodness of man, and his opposition to all restrictions on liberty have endured." Godwin is famed, as well, for his marriage to Mary Wollstonecraft, author of Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). After her tragic early death, he continued to be major influence on their daughter Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein (1818). For many of that generation Godwin, "with his revolutionary opinionsÉ seemed almost a prophet" (PMM 243). The book's initial publication in 1793 "brought him immediate renownÉ Hazlitt's account of Godwin's reputation, written nearly 30 years later, captures some of the reactionÉ 'No work in our time gave such a blow to the philosophical mind of the countryÉ Tom Paine was considered for a time as Tom Fool to him'" (Mark Philp).Political Justice "remains a work of real philosophical powerÉ as eloquent a defense of individual liberty as anything in subsequent generations of liberals, including John Stuart MillÉ As the founder of philosophical anarchism, the originator of the psychological novel, and as a key figure in the British response to the French Revolution," Godwin remains vital to Western thought (ODNB). Political Justice, as well, had a profound influence on Thomas Jefferson, who had the 1796 first American edition in his library (Sowerby 2359). "Only the emigrant Thomas Paine, whose Common Sense prompted Americans to declare their independence in 1776, was a half-step ahead of Godwin" (Burstein, Jefferson's Secrets, 105).This distinctive first octavo edition of Political Justice is uniformly bound with the first edition of Godwin's EnquirerÑtwo vital works that are rarely found together. Enquirer contains 28 essays that reconceive and point back to Political Justice. Shortly after he began Enquirer in August 1796, Mary Wollstonecraft and Godwin became lovers. To a great extent, "Enquirer was conceived, composed and published under the influence of his relationship with WollstonecraftÉ the essays' philanthropic potential was evident in the effect they had on Mary. She read them in October 1796 and confessed they made her love Godwin 'more and more'" (Prez Rodriguez, Education, Conversation and History, 81-82, 84n). Further, there "can be no doubt that Percy Shelley read Enquirer" as well (Hyde, Notes on Shelley's Reading, 16, 23). For many of that generation Godwin, "with his revolutionary opinionsÉ seemed almost a prophet" (PMM 243). Enquirer achieved perhaps its greatest impact when it "incited Malthus to write his Essay on PopulationÉ Both Political Justice and Enquirer formed part of the central argument of Malthus' 1798 Essay" (Claeys in Mayhew, ed., New Perspectives, 55-59, 66). Overall Enquirer foregrounds a shift in Godwin's perspective that "locates him most clearly on the borderline between the Enlightenment and Romanticism" (Handwerk in Maniquis & Myers, eds., Godwinian Moments, 108). First octavo edition of Political Justice: the first to contain his revisions, second overall: with half titles. First edition of Enquirer: with half title, rear errata leaf. Enquiry: see ESTC T94275. Rothschild 1016. Goldsmiths 15825. Kress B2529. Enquirer: ESTC T94276. Kress B3397. Goldsmiths' 16911. Rothschild 1018. This rare set has an especially rare provenance. It is from the library of William King, 8th Baron King, 1st Earl of Lovelace, 1st Viscount Ockham. Each volume contains the King family monogram in gilt on the spine. The title page of Enquirer contains his owner inscription, "Ockham King." The title page of Political Justice, Volume I contains his elegant cursive making pointed comments with his inserted "& Jacobinical" between the printed "Political Justice"; his annotated "misery" above the printed "Happiness," and his annotated "Citizen" above the printed "William Godwin." Each volume's preliminary blank leaves contain the inked library stamp of "Ben Damph Forest," complete with penciled shelf numbering. King is best remembered as the husband of Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer.Born in 1815, the only child of Lord Byron, she married King at the age of 19. Introduced to Charles Babbage in 1833, Ada Lovelace was drawn to his view of an "Analytical Engine"; she translated an Italian article about his work, expanding it with 41 pages of her appendices. Published in 1843, signed with her initials, it is most famous for "Note G," which documents her attention to mathematical detail, and "her imagination in thinking about the bigger pictureÉ Lovelace's paper is an extraordinary accomplishment, probably understood and recognized by very few in its time.…

EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Representative Men. Seven Lectures. First London Edition: 1850. The Lord Lovelace presentation copy, inscribed "Right Honble Earl of Lovelace With the Author's Compliments" on the front free endpaper (likely in the hand of Emerson's publisher). Original plum cloth, elaborately decorated in blind (Myerson's binding A), spine gilt lettered; spine and edges sunned. Lovelace and Emerson met frequently in London, especially at his publisher Chapman's house, where the author boarded. Lord William Lovelace was married to Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace, the daughter of Alfred Lord Byron and a mathematician known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical computer the Analytical Engine. Lovelace was present at a number of the "Representative Men" lectures that Emers on delivered in England in 1848. This volume comprises Emerson's essays on Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Napoleon and Goethe. Emerson's journal confirms he personally requested this copy to be given to Lovelace: In his entry for 17 November 1849, Emerson wrote, "I sent Chapman orders to send copies of Representative Men to [.] Earl of Lovelace." In custom rust linen and silk clamshell case. A wonderful presentation copy. BAL 5219. Provenance: William King, Lord Lovelace (presentation inscription on front free endpaper) - Whitwell Hatch (library blindstamp to front free endpaper). Signed.…