Warrington Circulating Library

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

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

^ 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.