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Friends! Our next release: Ada Lovelace's Notes on the Analytical Engine, in a unique construction, with a new typesetting, and a facsimile of Note G's fold-out. Available in September. Sign up for an email notification at the link. More details below! buddybindery.com/products/ada...

buddybindery.comAda Lovelace's Notes on Babbage's Analytical EngineThis book is a new typesetting and construction of Ada Lovelace’s extensive notes on, along with her translation of, L. F. Menabrea’s Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage, Esq. ...

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Alexander Obenauer

@alexanderobenauer.com

18 Aug

The book is a diptych with Lovelace’s translation of Menabrea’s 1843 Sketch of the Analytical Engine on the left, and her extensive Notes A – G on the right, held in place by bronze Chicago screws. Lovelace's writing is set in black, everything else in red.

Alexander Obenauer

@alexanderobenauer.com

18 Aug

A few cool things: We got to spend some time with one of the original copies at MIT Libraries. This helped us make the fold-out accurate, and clear the air on some other questions. We also built our own in-house typesetting and publishing software, "Pigment", to make this book.

Alexander Obenauer

@alexanderobenauer.com

18 Aug

Our friend Andy Milburn had the idea for this unique construction. Funnily enough, Lovelace wanted something similar herself. May printers inconvenience you no more, Ada.

Alexander Obenauer

@alexanderobenauer.com

18 Aug

Read more about the project here! buddybindery.com/products/ada...