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Circulating Libraries:

C. Fellows’s Circulating Library, Catherine Street, Salisbury. (Catalogue: 1817)
Robert Kinnear’s Circulating Library, 29 Frederick Street, Edinburgh. (Catalogue: 1808)
  (au)
A. K. Newman and Co’s Circulating Library, Minerva Office, 32 & 33 Leadenhall Street, London. (Catalogue: 1814)
  (au)

Subscription Libraries:

Liverpool Subscription Library, at the Lyceum, Bold Street, Liverpool. (Catalogue: 1814)
  [as ‘Castle of St Villeroy’]

Summary: 3 out of 19 possible Circulating Libraries; 1 out of 5 possible Subscription Libraries.
Overall: 4 out of 24 possible Libraries.

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