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Auction: 16018 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 1283

(x) Mudie Select Library Ltd, £20 share, 1864, #3236, founders share with the original signature of Charles E. Mudie, black, EF.

In 1842, Charles Edward Mudie (1818-1890) began to lend books to students at the University of London, charging subscribers' one guinea per year for the right to borrow one volume of a novel at a time. As most middle-class English people could not afford to purchase novels privately, there was a high demand for this lending library. For more than fifty years, Mudie's "Select Library" had a strong influence over publishers and authors, for example in morality, subject and scope of the novel. In 1860, the company's New Oxford Street premises were substantially enlarged, and many new branches of the business were subsequently established in other English cities such as York, Manchester and Birmingham. In 1864 Mudie's was converted into a limited company.

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Estimate
£50 to £60