Public Libraries in Great Britain Before 1850Summary of Early Public libraries. |
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attached Bamburgh Castle bequeathed bequest Birmingham Bodleian book clubs borrowed Bristol British Museum Bury cathedral libraries Chetham's Library church libraries circulating libraries clergy common copy divinity Durham early East Lothian Edinburgh eighteenth century endowed libraries English Library established F.L.A. Price fifteenth century folio foundation gentry Glasgow Grantham Humphrey Chetham institutional libraries John Carpenter King's Lynn Langley Marish learned societies lecterns Leicester lending libraries librarian library at St library founded Library of Scotland library provision literary literature Liverpool London Lynn St mainly Manchester manuscript Mary Middle Ages monasteries monastic municipal control National Library nineteenth century Norwich city Panizzi parish church parishioners parochial libraries period permanent library private subscription library proprietary library public library reading room Reformation Royal Library scholars Scotland Scottish secular shelves Shrewsbury School Sion College Steeple Ashton subscription basis theological THOMAS KELLY town trustees university libraries village library volumes Wales Wisbech working-class