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 /wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)
Historian Edward Baines referred to it as the "General Subscription Library at Warrington."[2] /wiki/Edward_Baines_(1774%E2%80%931848)
Catalogue of the Leeds Library. 1889. https://books.google.com/books?id=zjc7AQAAIAAJ
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. https://books.google.com/books?id=cikGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA17