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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)
  (au)
Bettison’s Library, High Street, Cheltenham. (Catalogue: 1817)
  (au)
C. Fellows’s Circulating Library, Catherine Street, Salisbury. (Catalogue: 1817)
  (au)
W. Fish’s Circulating Library, 38 London Lane, Norwich. (Catalogue: c. 1817)
  [2x: once as ‘Castle without a Spectre’, with different catalogue number]
Godwin’s Circulating Library, Upper Corner of Milsom Street, Bath. (Catalogue: 1819)
  (au)
Robert Kinnear’s Circulating Library, 29 Frederick Street, Edinburgh. (Catalogue: 1808)
  (au)
Mackay’s Edinburgh Circulating Library, 154 High Street, Edinburgh. (Catalogue: 1810)
  (au)
Marshall’s Circulating Library, Upper Corner of Milsom Street, Bath. (Catalogue: 1808)
A. K. Newman and Co’s Circulating Library, Minerva Office, 32 & 33 Leadenhall Street, London. (Catalogue: 1814)
  (au)
Richards’s Library, Queen Street, Cheapside, London. (Catalogue: 1807)
  (au)

Subscription Libraries:

Macclesfield Subscription Library, Macclesfield. (Catalogue: 1823)
  (au)
Sheffield Library, Surrey Street, Sheffield. (Catalogue: 1816)
Sheffield Library, Surrey Street, Sheffield. Additions 1. (Catalogue: 1821)
  (au)
Sheffield Library, Surrey Street, Sheffield. Additions 2. (Catalogue: 1831)
  (au)

Summary: 11 out of 19 possible Circulating Libraries; 2 out of 5 possible Subscription Libraries.
Overall: 13 out of 24 possible Libraries.

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