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Circulating Libraries:

Aberdeen Public Library, Broad Street, Aberdeen. (Catalogue: 1821)
  (au)
Barry and Son’s Circulating Library, 21 High Street, Bristol. (Catalogue: c.1824)
Bettison’s Library, High Street, Cheltenham. (Catalogue: 1817)
Godwin’s Circulating Library, Upper Corner of Milsom Street, Bath. (Catalogue: 1819)
Horne’s Public Library, Queen Street, Cheapside, London. (Catalogue: 1824)
Robert Kinnear’s Circulating Library, 29 Frederick Street, Edinburgh. Additions 2. (Catalogue: 1819)
Mackay’s Edinburgh Circulating Library, 154 High Street, Edinburgh. Additions 1. (Catalogue: 1816)
A. K. Newman and Co’s Circulating Library, Minerva Office, 32 & 33 Leadenhall Street, London. Additions 2. (Catalogue: 1815-16)
Gerrard Tyrrell Circulating Library, Lower Sackville Street, Dublin. (Catalogue: 1834)
  (au: ‘Mrs. Grant’)

Subscription Libraries:

Edinburgh Subscription Library, Edinburgh. (Catalogue: 1833)
  (au)
Liverpool Subscription Library at the Lyceum, Bold Street, Liverpool. Additions 1. (Catalogue: 1820)
Macclesfield Subscription Library, Macclesfield. (Catalogue: 1823)
Manchester Subscription Library, Manchester. (Catalogue: 1818)
Manchester Subscription Library, Manchester. Additions 1. (Catalogue: 1831)

Summary: 9 out of 17 possible Circulating Libraries; 4 out of 5 possible Subscription Libraries.
Overall: 13 out of 22 possible Libraries.

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