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 edit
- ^ Historian Edward Baines referred to it as the "General Subscription Library at Warrington."[2]
References edit
- ^ 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
- ^ Edward Baines (1825). History, Directory, and Gazetteer of the County Palatine of Lancaster. Vol. 2. Liverpool: Wm. Wales & Co.
- ^ Catalogue of the Leeds Library. 1889.
- ^ 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
- ^ "Dr. Priestly and his Relation to Proprietary Libraries". Monthly Notes of the Library Association of the United Kingdom (3). 15 March 1880.
Further reading edit
- Catalogue of Books in the Warrington Circulating Library. 1809.
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