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Routledge's
Railway Library
Routledge's
Railway Library began in 1849 as a shameless imitation of Simms
and McIntyre's Parlour Library. The Pilot was one of seven
novels by the distinguished American author, James Fenimore Cooper,
included in the series during its first year. Although Routledge
later had to pay compensation to the publisher Richard Bentley for
infringing his British copyrights in Cooper's works, these unauthorised
reprints allowed the series to get off to a good start with the
minimum of capital outlay. By the time the Railway Library came
to an end in 1898 it numbered 1277 volumes.
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