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The Warrington Circulating Library of Warrington, England, was a subscription library established in 1760.[1][nb 1] It became part of the Warrington Museum in 1848.[3][4] Supporters included Joseph Priestley.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ Historian Edward Baines referred to it as the "General Subscription Library at Warrington."[2]

References

  1. ^ Paul Kaufman (1967). "The Community Library: A Chapter in English Social History". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 57. JSTOR 1006043. Check List of Subscription Libraries in England
  2. ^ Edward Baines (1825). History, Directory, and Gazetteer of the County Palatine of Lancaster. Vol. 2. Liverpool: Wm. Wales & Co.
  3. ^ Catalogue of the Leeds Library. 1889.
  4. ^ Proposals for the establishment of a 'Warrington Museum and Library' under the 8th and 9th Vic. c. 43 by merging therewith the Warrington Town Library and the Museum of the Natural History Society, 1848
  5. ^ "Dr. Priestly and his Relation to Proprietary Libraries". Monthly Notes of the Library Association of the United Kingdom (3). March 15, 1880.

Further reading

  • Catalogue of Books in the Warrington Circulating Library. 1809.