File:Nobles-library.png

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An advertisement for Nobles' Circulating Library. The first circulating library was in Bath in 1725. By 1780, libraries were in most places. This is a library in London in mid-century. N.b. the illustration shows primarily women as patrons, as libraries were associated mostly with female readers.

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