Published in 1892, it was one of the first books that were available back when the library was a subscription service. Think of it like Netflix of its day for twenty five cents a month to check out a book and you had someone who had wanted to browse its pages, they would have done that at the library instead of taking it home. But, quote, almost 100 years since we assume it was in the building, but we just would have loved to have known where it had been