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Abstract
Surprising as it may seem, the library of a castle in northern Germany contains one of the best extant collections outside the United Kingdom of early nineteenth-century novels of the kind found so frequently in circulating libraries of the period. Acquired as part of a deliberate policy by a German bibliophile princess, the collection could be described as approaching a ‘universal library of trivial literature’.