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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
- ↑ 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.
