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libraries, circulating, libraries from which, for a fee, books were borrowed by the public. The first appears to have been A.
Ramsay's founded in Edinburgh in 1726, and the system flourished for over two centuries. It greatly stimulated the production of books, particularly of novels, but there was also a strong link between Dissent, the self-education of the lower classes, and the circulating library, as J.
Priestley noted. The great new libraries of the 19th cent.,
Mudie's, W. H.
Smith's, and
Boots, exercised a powerful censorship. The three-volume novel of the middle and late 19th cent. was largely supported by these libraries, and died out at the end of the century when they no longer wanted it. The chief circulating libraries of this century were closed by 1970, and replaced by the system of Book Clubs.
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