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Circulating library
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A circulating library lent books to subscribers, and was first and foremost a business venture. The intention was to profit from lending books to the public for a fee.
Donald McDonald, stationer, and his Circulating Library, Gulgong, 1870
Donald McDonald, stationer, and his Circulating Library, Gulgong, 1870
No.82 Main Street, Gloucester, Massachusetts
No.82 Main Street, Gloucester, Massachusetts
Three-volume novel
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The three-volume novel was a standard form of publishing for British fiction during the nineteenth century. It was a significant stage in the development of the modern novel as a form of popular literature in Western culture.
The title page of the first volume of the three-volume, first edition of Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins (1872)
The title page of the first volume of the three-volume, first edition of Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins (1872)
The first page of chapter one from the 3rd (three-volume) edition of 1818 compared with the same page of the single-volume 1906 Everyman's Library Edi
The first page of chapter one from the 3rd (three-volume) edition of 1818 compared with the same page of the single-volume 1906 Everyman's Library Edition of Rob Roy.