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[Settle Literary Society].
Catalogue of Books belonging to the Settle Literary Society, Instituted 1770; Together with a Copy of the Rules, and a List of the Present Subscribers.
Publisher: Printed by Wildman & Son, Settle;
Date of Publication: 1864
Stock Code: 14207
Duodecimo, pp., vii, [5], 182. Quarter skiver on grey paper-covered boards, titles printed to upper board. Bookplate of Thomas Bradshaw to front paste-down. Upper board soiled, significant loss to spine, but still holding, a little shelf wear to edges. Contents very lightly toned but clean. A good copy of a rare book. An excessively rare artefact of North Yorkshire library history. Subscription libraries such as this proliferated throughout Britain in the early nineteenth-century, providing members with access to books. The printing of the library rules, the list of subscribers, and the library catalogue here provides a unique insight into literary culture in Yorkshire in the middle of the 19th c. £75.00