The Warrington Circulating Library of Warrington, England, was a subscription library established in 1760. It became part of the Warrington Museum in 1848. Supporters included Joseph Priestley.
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Further reading
- Catalogue of Books in the Warrington Circulating Library. 1809.
References
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 ↩