Older Than deck / Books, art, music and films
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Checked 2026-11-01: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify, or content-verify-pdf for PDFs); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source; for dates the quote is the year as printed, read in context.
“1895”At the Circulating Library / Troy J. Bassett: source, retrieved 2026-10-28; quote re-found by the server check
“1895”The Victorian Web / Jacqueline Banerjee: source, retrieved 2026-10-28; quote re-found by the server check
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