BOOK CLUBS & READING SOCIETIES
The arrangement is alphabetical by place. This is a large file!
ABERDEEN abe Aberdeen
Reading Society 1805
- 1834.
ALCESTER war Alcester
Book Society 1798?
Subs. list5.
ALFORD lin Clergymen's
Book Society 1725?
Subs. list.
Notes & Queries, 29 September, 1877, p. 259.
ALMONDBURY yor Almondbury
Book Club 1745?
ALNWICK nob Medical
Book Club 1840?
List 1847.
ALTON ham Alton
Book Society 1805?
Cats. 1806, 1811
(Hampshire RO).
ALTON ham Alton
New Book Society 1822
Rules 1822
(Hampshire RO).
ALTRINCHAM che Altrincham
Book Club 1795?
Subscribers'
list, W. Enfield, Sermons, 1798.
ALVESTON glo Convivio-Medical
Society 1768
A medical book
society, founded by John Fewster. Still going in 1789. Jenner was a member.
AMBLESIDE wes Book
Society 1828
-1912. Records
(Armitt Library). E. Jay, The Armitt Story, Ambleside. Ambleside, 1998.
APPLEBY wes Appleby
Book Club 1790
Kendal RO;
Carlisle RO? Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969.
ARBURY war Arbury
Book Club 1783?
Warwickshire RO
(Newdigate papers).
ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCHE lei
Ashby Society 1755?
Subs. list
(1757).
AXBRIDGE som Axbridge
Book Club 1802?
List of members
in Somerset RO.
AYLESBURY buk Aylesbury
Book Club 1822?
R. Gibbs,
History of Aylesbury, 1885, p. 441.
AYLESBURY buk Aylesbury
Book Society 1810?
Bucks.
Chronicle, 30 November, 1822.
BACKBARROW lan Backbarrow
Book Club 1775?
Northern
History, xix, 1983, p. 177.
BADSWORTH yor Badsworth
Book Club 1820?
John Johnson.
BALDOCK her Baldock
Reading Society 1825?
Subs. list
(1826).
BALLINGDON suf Ballingdon
Book Society 1797?
Subs. list.
Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969.
BALLYASTON ldy Ballyaston
Book Club 1783?
Subs. list.
BALLYCROGHAN dow
Ballycroghan Society 1810?
Subs. list, A.
McKenzie, Poems, 1810. Adams, Reading Societies in Ulster.
BALLYCROON ant Ballycroon
Reading Society 1825?
Subs. list in
William Anderson, Collection, 1830. Adams, Popular Culture, 124. Adams, Reading
Societies in Ulster.
BALLYGOSKIN dow Ballygoskin
Reading Society 1790?
Survived till 20
century. Adams, Reading Societies in Ulster.
BALLYHALBERT dow
Ballyhalbert Reading Society 1815?
Newtownards
Chronicle, 28 November, 1896. Adams, Reading Societies in Ulster.
BALLYNAHINCH dow
Ballynahinch Reading Society 1813
- 1834? Adams,
Reading Societies in Ulster. Popular Culture, 123.
BAMPTON oxf Bampton
Reading Society 1813?
Subs. list.
Printed label in Franks.
BANBRIDGE dow Banbridge
Reading Society 1795
- 1841. Sold in
1842. Adams RSU, Popular Culture, 122. John Gamble, A View of Society ... 1812,
1813.
BANBURY oxf Banbury
Reading Society 1796?
Subs. list.
BANGOR cae Bangor
Book Club 1798?
Met in Penrhyn
Arms.
BANGOR dow Bangor
Reading Society 1815?
Hibernian
Evangelical Magazine, 1816, 295. Adams, Reading Societies in Ulster.
BARNARD CASTLE dur
Barnard Castle Book Society 1815?
Durham RO.
BARNSTAPLE dev Barnstaple
& North Devon Medical Book Club 1839
-1875. Ninutes
(North Devon RO).
BARNSTAPLE dev Barnstaple
Book Society 1810?
Subscribers'
list, J. Prince, Worthies of Devon, 1810.
BARRHEAD ren Barrhead
Book Club 1819
Renfrew
Directory, 1832.
BARTON yor Barton
Society 1757?
Subs. list.
BATTLE sus Battle
Book Club 1790?
Label in John
Johnson. Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969.
BATTLE sus Battle
Book Society 1800?
- 1824? Subs.
list (1804).
BECCLES suf Beccles
Book Club 1754?
Subs. list. -
1821. Label in John Johnson. Library History, v, 1979, pp. 48-54.
BEDALE yor Bedale
Book Club 1814?
Subs. list.
BEDFORD bed Independent
Book Club 1820?
See R. Phillips,
Personal Tour, 1829, pp. 17-18. 791.h.32.
BEDFORD bed Protestant
Book Society 1790?
BELFAST ant Artizans'
Reading Society 1795?
J. Anderson,
History ... Linen Hall Library, 1888.
BELFAST ant Belfast
Reading & Discussing Society 1807
Bookplate in
Adams collection (now?). Adams, Reading Societies in Ulster.
BERSTED ken Bersted
Book Society 1792?
Subs. list.
BEVERLEY yor Beverley
Book Society 1823
G. Oliver,
History ... Beverley, 1829.
BEWDLEY wor Bewdley
Book Society 1767
Minutes
1767-1896 (Worcester RO).
BEWDLEY wor Bewdley
New Book Society 1798
Subs. list.
BIBURY glo Bibury
Society 1790?
Kaufman,
Libraries & their Users, 1969.
BILLERICAY ess Billericay
Book Club 1785?
Subscribers'
list, J. Phillips, Treatise ... Navigation, 1785.
BIRMINGHAM war Birmingham
Book Club 1758 [Freeth's Coffee House]
Known as the
Jacobin Club after 1792. MS. histories (1864 and 1931) in Birmingham PL.
BIRMINGHAM war Book
Club 1745?
Still going in
1960! Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969. Birmingham PL.
BIRMINGHAM war Chain
Book Club 1775? [Chain]
Subs. list.
BIRMINGHAM war Deritend
Book Club 1825?
Subs. list
(1827).
BIRMINGHAM war Edgbaston
Book Society 1815?
Rules in BL.
BIRMINGHAM war Red
Lion Book Club 1776? [Red Lion]
Subs. list.
BIRMINGHAM war Swan
Book Club 1780? [Swan]
Subs. list.
BISHOP WEARMOUTH dur
Ladies Book Club 1837
-1912. Minutes,
accounts, purchase books (Tyne & Wear Archives).
BISHOPS LYDEARD som
Gore Inn Reading Society 1808?
- 1860. Moved to
Lethbridge Arms in 1824.
BLACKBURN lan Clerical
Library 1820?
Label in Franks.
BLACKLEY lan Blackley
Book Society 1777?
BBTI. Subs.
list.
BLANDFORD FORUM dor
Blandford Reading Society 1792
Rules 1792
(Dorset RO).
BLUNTISHAM hun Bluntisham
Book Club 1825
Notes &
Queries, 13 June, 1914, p. 462.
BOARDMILLS ant Boradmills
Reading Society 1830?
- 1845? Subs.
list - William Anderson, Collection, 1830. Adams, Popular Culture, 124. Adams,
Reading Societies in Ulster.
BOCKING ess Bocking
Book Society 1788?
BBTI.
Subscriptions lists.
BODMIN cnw Bodmin
Book Club 1800?
Subscribers'
list, S. Drew, Original Essay, 1803.
BOLTON lan Boar's
Head Book Club 1784?
BOLTON lan Caledonian
Book Club 1804
Refounded in
1817 as the Union Library. Cat. 1817 (Bolton PL). Records (Bolton Archives).
BOLTON lan Swan
Hotel Book Club 1780?
BOOTLE lan Bootle
Book Club 1790?
Kaufman,
Libraries & their Users, 1969. Subs. list (1805).
BOSTON lin Boston
Book Society 1750
Subs. list
(1757). Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969.
BOSTON lin Boston
Clergy Society 1743?
Subs. list. -
1776.
BOSTON lin Boston
Small Book Society 1820?
BOTESDALE suf Botesdale
Book Club 1758?
Subs. list.
Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969. Accounts survive?
BRACKLEY noh Brackley
Book Society 1780?
J.R. Greenhil
diary - Bodley MS Eng.misc.e.200.
BRADDEN noh Forster
Booth Book Club 1809
Accounts 1809-45
(Northamptonshire RO).
BRADFORD yor Bradford
Amicable Book Society 1833
-1851. Minutes,
rules, &c. (West Yorksire Archives Bradford).
BRADFORD yor Political
Book Club 1793?
- 1814. Dickon,
1895.
BRAINTREE ess Book
Society 1798
Kaufman,
Libraries & their Users, 1969. Minute books, 1856-1944 (Essex RO).
BRENTWOOD ess Brentwood
Book Club 1820?
Subscribers'
list, C. Ekins, Naval Battles, 1824.
BREWOOD sta Brewood
Book Society 1764?
Subs. list.
BRIDGNORTH shr Society
of Clergymen 1742?
- 1838. MS cat.
(BL), 1838 (Bodley).
BRIGG lin Brigg
Society 1795
Subs. list.
Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969.
BRIGHTON sus Brighton
Book Society 1827
Rules 1836 in
East Sussex RO.
BRISTOL glo Bristol
Infirmary Reading Society 1795?
Still going in
1820.
BRISTOL glo Bristol
Medical Book Society 1796
BRISTOL glo Bristol
Medical Reading Society 1807
Still going in
1914.
BRISTOL glo Bristol
Medico-Chirurgical Society 1812
Still going in
1825.
BRISTOL glo Friendly
Society 1790?
Kaufman,
Libraries & their Users, 1969.
BROMPTON ken Brompton
Book Society 1795?
Subs. list
(1799).
BROUGHTON lan Broughton
Book Club 1790?
Kaufman,
Libraries & their Users, 1969. Subs. list (1805).
BROXBOURNE her Broxbourne
Book Club 1805?
BUCKINGHAM buk Buckingham
Book Club 1790?
Subscribers'
list, J. White, Journal ... New South Wales, 1790.
BUNGAY suf Bungay
Book Club 1770?
- 1810. Subs.
list. Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969. BBTI = Bungay Book Society,
1779.
BURTON-IN-LONSDALE yor
Burton Book Club 1825?
Subs. list.
BURY lan Bury
Book Society 1777
BBTI. Subs.
list.
BURY lan Silver
Street Chapel Book Club 1738?
For dissenters.
Same as Bury Chapel Library, recorded in 1804 as a subscription library?
BURY ST EDMUNDS suf
Bury Book Society 1785?
Subs. list. -
1817.
BURY ST EDMUNDS suf
Dissenters Book Club 1814?
Subs. list.
CAMBERWELL sur Camberwell
Book Society 1819?
Subs. list.
CAMBRIDGE cam Cambridge
Book Club 1823
Minute books,
1853-1946 in Cambridge PL, 1947-1962 in Cambridge RO.
CAMBRIDGE cam Cambridge
Book Society 1821
Rules 1823; cat.
1825 - Cambridge UL.
CAMBRIDGE cam Hoop
Tavern 1784? [Book Club]
Subscribers'
list, J. Cooke, Voyage to the Pacific, 1784; also C. Collignon, Miscellaneous
Works, 1786.
CAMBRIDGE cam Jesus
College Book Club 1818
Jesus College
archives - minute books. Still in existence. L.A. Pars, Transactions, Cambridge
Bibliographical Society, 1970, 132-37.
CAMBRIDGE cam Society
for Promotion of Philosophy & Literature 1784 [Book Club]
Founded by Isaac
Milner. Defunct by 1787.
CAMBRIDGE cam Sun
Inn 1784? [Book Club]
Subscribers'
list, J. Cooke, Voyage to the Pacific, 1784.
CAMBRIDGE cam Theatre
Coffee House 1740? [Book Club]
Subscribers'
list, D. Bellamy, Miscellanies, 1740.
CANTERBURY ken Canterbury
Book Club 1790?
Royal Museum?
Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969.
CANTERBURY ken Select
Reading Society 1810?
Subs. list
(1813).
CARDIFF gla Cardiff
Book Society 1814
- 1825? Lists
(Cardiff PL).
CARDIGAN cad Cardigan
Book Society 1820?
CARLISLE cum Book
Club 1768
Beckwith.
Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969.
CARMARTHEN cat Carmarthen
Reading Society 1750?
Diary, Thomas
Morgan (NLW MS. 5457). Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969, p. 182.
CARMARTHEN cat Carmarthen
Reading Society 1815
List in Cardiff
PL. Accounts (Carmarthen RO).
CARMARTHEN cat Clerical
Book Club 1709?
SPCK archives -
M. Clement, 1952.
CARNAMONEY ldy Carnamoney
Reading Society 1810?
Subs. list - A.
McKenzie, Poems, 1810.
CARR dow Carr
Reading Society 1825?
Subs. list, W.
Anderson, 1830. Adams, Reading Societies in Ulster.
CASTLE HEDINGHAM ess
Castle Hedingham Book Society 1795?
Subscribers'
list, C.E. Stewart, Collection of Trifles, 1797.
CASTLEWELLAN dow
Castlewellan Reading Association 1850?
Bookplate (Adams
- ?). Adams, Reading Societies in Ulster.
CAVENDISH suf Cavendish
Literary Society 1797
Subs. list.
Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969.
CAXTON cam Book
Club 1712?
Kaufman,
Libraries & their Users, 1969. Several subscribers' lists. Notes &
Queries, 1914, p. 462.
CHATHAM ken Chatham
Friendly Book Society 1815?
Sub. list in
History & Antiquities of Rochester, 1817.
CHATHAM ken Chatham
Select Book Society 1807?
Subs. list in
History & Antiquities of Rochester, 1817.
CHAWTON ham Chawton
Book Society 1810?
Mostly a ladies
club (Jane Austen was a member).
CHEADLE sta Cheadle
Book Society 1807?
Subs. list.
CHELMSFORD ess Chelmsford
Book Society 1780?
Ceased in 1790.
Chelmsford Chronicle, 8 October, 1790.
CHELMSFORD ess Clerical
Book Club 1844
-1984. Minutes,
accounts (Essex RO).
CHESHUNT her Cheshunt
Book Society 1785?
Subs. list.
CHESTER che Cheshire
Book Society 1796?
Kaufman,
Libraries & their Users, 1969. Subscribers' list, Fanny Burney, Camilla,
1796.
CHESTER che Cheshire
Book Society 1795?
Subscribers'
list, Fanny Burney, Camilla, 1796.
CHESTER che Literary
Society 1765?
Subscribers'
list, R. Dean, Essay on the future life of Brutes, 1767.
CHESTER che Pamphlet
Club 1775?
Subscribers'
list, C. Burney, General History of Music, 1776.
CHESTERFIELD der
Chesterfield Book Society 1815
Cat. 1815, 1827
(Derby PL) - 1,000+ vols. Derbyshire Courier, 18 February, 1843. Library
History, vi,2, p. 30.
CHICHESTER sus Literary
Society 1790?
Kaufman,
Libraries & their Users, 1969.
CHIPPING NORTON oxf
Chipping Norton Reading Society 1790?
Subs. list
(1796). Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969.
CHOWBENT lan Chowbent
Book Society 1753?
Subs. list.
Still going in 1788.
CHOWBENT lan Congregational
Dissenters Book Society 1790?
Subs. list
(1792).
CHOWBENT lan Congregational
Dissenters New Book Society 1792?
Subs. list.
CHURCH STRETTON shr
Stretton Book Society 1790?
Subs. list.
CIRENCESTER glo Cirencester
Book Club 1783?
Kaufman,
Libraries & their Users, 1969.
CLAPHAM sur Clapham
Book Society 1779?
- 1813. D.
Knott, Library, xxiv, 1969, pp. 243-46.
CLARE suf Clare
Book Society 1797
Subs. list.
Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969.
CLAVERING ess Clavering
Book Society 1786
1786-1932. Essex
RO. Essex Review, 1935, pp. 109-12. Congregational Historical Society
Transactions, xii, 1934. Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969. Minute
books 1787-1932 (Saffron Walden PL).
CLAYDON suf Claydon
Book Society 1775?
Subs. list.
Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969.
CLIFFORD yor Clifford
Book Club 1766?
Diary of Thomas
Morgan (NLW MS. 5457).
CLIPSTON noh Clipston
Book Society 1792?
Subs. list.
COANWOOD nob Coanwood
Reading Library 1840?
Northumberland
Record Office. NRO Deposit 1114.
COCKERMOUTH cum Cockermouth
Book Club 1785
Merged with PL
in 1904. Cats. 1791, 1794, 1819, 1847 (Carlisle PL). Cumberland Pacquet, 5
July, 1785.
CODDENHAM suf Coddenham
Book Society 1795?
- 1818? Subs.
list. BBTI. Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969. Label in Franks. B.N.
Lee, Early Printed Book Labels, 1976, 484.
COLCHESTER ess Castle
Society Book Club 1750?
Founded by
Charles Gray. Formed from the Harsnet Library. White's Essex Directory, 1845.
Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969. Colchester PL; Essex RO; Essex
Archaeological Society.
COLEFORD glo Coleford
Reading Society 1820?
Sub. list.
COLESHILL war Coleshill
Book Society 1766?
Subs. list.
Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969.
COLNE lan Colne
Book Society 1793
- 1853.
Transactions of the Historical Society of Lancashire & Cheshire, 1958, pp.
148-55.
COMBER dow Comber
Society for Acquiring Knowledge 1806
- 1828? Rules,
1828 (Linen Hall L). Cat. in Linen Hall L? Adams, Reading Societies in Ulster.
COTTINGHAM yor Cottingham
Reading Society 1788?
Subs. list.
COVENTRY war Coventry
Book Society 1767?
Subs. list.
raries & their Users, 1969.
COVENTRY war Coventry
New Book Society 1781?
Subs. list.
COVENTRY war Medical
Book Society 1820?
COVENTRY war Philographic
Society 1807
- 1821?
Engravings. Notes by George Eld (Coventry RO).
COWBRIDGE gla Clerical
Book Club 1817
- 1833. Accounts
1817-33 (Glamorgan RO).
COWBRIDGE gla Cowbridge
Book Society 1736
- 1750? Became
the Diocesan Library. Rees p. 252. Papers (Glamorgan RO, NLW MS. 6517). The
former SPCK library (1711). Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969.
CRANBROOK ken Cranbrook
Book Society 1800?
Subs. list
(1819) - 11602.e.23.
CRANBROOK ken Cranbrook
Union Library 1800?
Subs. list in
T.D.W. Dearn's History of the Weald, 1814.
CRANFIELD bed Cranfield
Book Society 1705?
SPCK Archives, 4
April, 1709.
CRAWFORDSBURN dow
Crawfordsburn Reading Society 1810?
Subs. list, A.
McKenzie, Poems, 1810. Adams, Reading Societies in Ulster.
CREATON noh Creaton
Reading Society 1805?
Subs. list.
CRICKHOWELL bre Crickhowell
Book Club 1800?
R. Fenton, Tours
in Wales, 1804.
CROSSGAR dow Crossgar
Reading Society 1830?
Subs. list -
William Anderson, Collection, 1830. Adams, Popular Culture, 124.
CROSSGAR dow Crossgar
Religious Reading Society 1828?
Northern Whig, 2
April, 1829. Adams, Popular Culture, 129.
CROYDON sur Croydon
Book Society 1788
- 1953. Papers
1902-54 (Croydon PL).
CULLOMPTON dev Cullompton
Book Society 1810?
Subscribers'
list, G.G. Freemman, Devonshire Advertiser, 1814.
DALTON-IN-FURNESS cum
Dalton Book Club 1764?
Still going.
Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969. Papers owned by the Club. James E.
Walton, History of Dalton-in-Furness. Chichester, 1984.
DARTFORD ken Book
Society 1823?
G. Admiral
Pocock's Day Book, October 1823 and 1824.
DARTMOUTH dev Dartmouth
Reading Club 1754
Western Flying
Post, 25 November, 1754.
DARTON yor Darton
Book Society 1757?
Subs. list.
DAVENTRY noh Daventry
Book Society 1773?
Kaufman,
Libraries & their Users, 1969.
DAVENTRY noh Society
of Clergymen 1746?
- 1780.
DEAL ken Deal
Book Club 1795?
Subs. list
(1797).
DEDHAM ess Dedham
& Stratford Book Club 1825?
DEDHAM ess Dedham
Book Society 1739?
Subscribers'
list, J. Warren, Sermons, 1739.
DENBIGH den Denbigh
Reading Society 1794?
J.L. Clifford,
Piozzi's diary, 1952.
DERBY der Derby
Book Club 1750?
Adv. for sale in
1753 - Derby Mercury, 4 May, 1753.
DERBY der Derby
Book Society 1757?
Kaufman,
Libraries & their Users, 1969. Rules (Debry PL). Several subscribers'
lists.
DERBY der Derby
County Book Society 1755?
Subscribers'
list, S. Ockley, History of the saracens, 1757.
DERBY der Drewry's
Book Society 1790? [John Drewry]
Pigot, 1822. BLC
has imprints 1789-1832.
DERBY der Pritchard's
New Book Society 1792? [William Pritchard]
Rules in S.S.
Banks collection (BL). Met at the Talbot Inn.
DERBY der Roome's
Book Society 1780? [Francis Roome]
Roome died in
1812. BLC has 1781 imrpint.
DERBY der Union
Book Society 1784
Kaufman,
Libraries & their Users, 1969. Label in John Johnson.
DEVONPORT dev Dock
Literary Society 1800?
Subscribers'
list, T.H. Williams, Picturesque Excursion, 1804. May be the same as the Dock
Minerva Society.
DEVONPORT dev Dock
Reading Society 1800?
Subscribers'
list, T.H. Williams, Picturesque Tour, 1804. Still going in 1827.
DEVONPORT dev Stoke
Reading Society 1810?
Used by naval
officers. Plymouth Directory, 1830.
DISS nor Diss
Book Society 1777
BBTI. Cats.
1831, 1879 (Norwich PL). White, 1836. Library History, viii/5, p. 146.
DITCHLING sus Ditchling
Library Society 1824?
Subs. list.
DOAGH ant Doagh
Book Club 1770
Permanent
library. Destroyed in 1798. 1799-1838. Founded by William Galt. Adams, Reading
Societies in Ulster.
DOLGELLAU mer Ladies'
Book Club 1781?
DONAGHMORE ant Donaghmore
Reading Society 1830?
Subs. list -
William Anderson, Collection, 1830. Adams, Popular Culture, 124.
DONINGTON lin Medical
Book Society 1796
DORKING sur Dorking
Book Society 1810?
- 1823. Subs.
list. Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969.
DORKING sur Dorking
Magazine Society 1820
Timbs, 1823.
DORKING sur Magazine
Society 1820?
Monthly
Magazine, 1820, p. 430. Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969.
DOVER ken Dover
Book Society 1792?
W. Boys,
Collections for a History of Sandwich, 1792; sub. list.
DOWNHAM MARKET nor
Downham Book Society 1775
Subs. list.
DOWNPATRICK dow Downpatrick
Reading Society 1825?
- 1845? Adams,
Reading Societies in Ulster.
DRIFFIELD yor Driffield
Book Society 1823?
Baines, 1823.
DROMORE dow Dromore
Reading Society 1794?
Probably founded
by Thomas Percy? Northern Star, 21 November, 1796. 1794 bookplate in Franks.
DUDLEY wor Dudley
Book Society 1732
- 1956.
DUKINFIELD che Dukinfield
Book Society 1805
Founded by Rev.
J. Hawkes. 460 vols. by 1816. A. Parkinson, Beneficial Effects of a Sunday
School, 1816.
DULWICH sur Dulwich
Book Society 1792?
Subs. list.
DUNFERMLINE fif Pamphlet
Club 1810
- 1811. Minutes
(Dunfermile PL).
DURSLEY glo Dursley
Reading Society 1818
Rules 1818
(Bodley).
EARL SOHAM suf Earl
Soham Book Society 1795?
Subs. list.
Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969.
EAST DEREHAM nor
Dereham Literary Society 1769?
Subs. list. -
1798?
EAST DEREHAM nor
East Dereham Book Society 1810
Label in Norfolk
RO.
EAST GRINSTEAD sus
East Grinstead Literary Society 1824?
Subs. list.
EAST HARLING nor
Harling Book Club 1794?
Subs. list.
EDGELEY che Book
Society 1845?
Accounts &
Papers. 1852-53. Education. 1854. Based on 1851 Census.
EDINBURGH edi Belles-Lettres
Society of Edinburgh 1759
-1764. Minutes
(NL Scotland).
ELGIN mor Elgin
Literary Association 1818
- 1835. 700
vols. by 1835 - The New Statistical Account of Scotland, 1845. Vol. XIII, p.
22.
ELY cam Pamphlet
Club 1766
Register,
Accounts - BL Add. MS. 44973. J. Feather, Cambridge Bibliographical Society
Transactions, 1980, pp. 457-63. Met at the Red Lion Inn.
ENGLEFIELD GREEN sur
Englefield Green Book Society 1822
ENNIS cla Ennis
Book Club 1820?
Sale of library
in 1828 - Clare Journal, 22 December, 1828.
EPPING ess Epping
Book Society 1779?
Subscribers'
list. J. Duche, Discrourses, 1779.
EVERTON lan Everton
Book Society 1820?
R. Syers,
History of Everton, 1830.
EVESHAM wor Evesham
Reading Society 1800?
- 1819.
EXETER dev Exeter
Book Society 1795?
BBTI.
Subscribers' list, S. Whyte, Poems, 1795. Also referred to as Exeter Reading
Society.
EXETER dev Reading
Society 1792
Kaufman,
Libraries & their Users, 1969.
EYE suf Clerical
Book Society 1752?
Subs. list.
EYE suf Eye
Book Club 1709?
SPCK Archives.
FAILSWORTH lan Jacobin
Library 1798?
FAIRFORD glo Fairford
Book Society 1790?
Kaufman,
Libraries & their Users, 1969.
FAVERSHAM ken Faversham
Book Society 1791
Minute Book
covers 1791-1802 - Faversham PL.
FENSTANTON hun Fenstanton
Religious Society 1790?
Subs. list
(1791).
FETTERCAIRN kin Fettercairn
Club 1825?
500 vols. by
1835 - The New Statistical Account of Scotland, 1845. Vol. XI, p. 126.
FINNINGHAM suf Finningham
Book Society 1750?
Subs. list.
FOSTERBOOTH noh Fosterbooth
Book Society 1809
- 1845. Accounts
in Northamptonshire RO.
FOSTERBOOTH noh Society
of Clergymen 1777?
Clay ledgers in
Northamptonshire RO.
FRAMLINGHAM suf Framlingham
Book Club 1752?
Subs. list.
FRAMLINGHAM suf Framlingham
Book Society 1825
FRAMLINGHAM suf Independent
Chapel Book Club 1834
FRAMPTON-UPON-SEVERN
glo Book Club 1790?
Kaufman,
Libraries & their Users, 1969.
FRANKTON war Frankton
Book Society 1755?
Subs. list.
FROME som Frome
Reading Society 1813?
GAINSBOROUGH lin
Gainsborough Book Society 1820?
GEE CROSS che Gee
Cross Book Club 1765
T. Middleton,
History of Hyde, 1932, p. 530.
GEE CROSS che Gerard's
Reading Society 1830?
Subscribers'
list, S. Lewis, Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.
GILNAHIRK ant Gilnahirk
Religious Reading Society 1833?
Rules and cat.
Belfast, [1833?] (Linen Hall L). Adams, Popular Culture, 130.
GLOUCESTER glo Gloucester
Reading Society 1800?
Subs. list.
GRANTHAM lin Clergyman's
Society 1739?
- 1811. Sale
cat. 1811 (Grantham PL). Subs. list. Kaufman, Libraries & their Users,
1969.
GRAVESEND ken Gravesend
Book Society 1825?
Subs. list
(1831).
GREAT GRIMSBY lin
Great Grimsby Book Society 1821
Rules in
Lincolnshire Archives.
GREAT PAXTON hun
Clergymen's Society 1704?
SPCK Archives,
1704. Presumably a book club.
GREAT WYMONDLY her
Wymondly Book Society 1815?
Subs. list
(1819).
GREAT YARMOUTH nor
Free & Easy Book Club 1794?
Subs. list. J.
Preston, Picture of Yarmouth, 1819.
GREAT YARMOUTH nor
Monthly Book Club 1795
BBTI.
GREAT YARMOUTH nor
Yarmouth Book Society 1772
Subs. list.
Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969. Cp. Monthly Book Club.
GREAT YARMOUTH nor
Yarmouth New Book Club 1780
Library
dispersed in 1835. Minute books with Club. Rule 1822, 1832, 1865, 1891, 1915,
1931 (Yarmouth PL, Norwich PL). Cat. 1798.
GUTHLAXTON lei Guthlaxton
Book Society 1822
Precise location
unknown. Guthlaxton Hundred covers several towns. Wigston?
HACKNEY msx Hackney
French Book Society 1810?
HACKNEY msx Hackney
New Reading Society 1814?
Subs. list.
HACKNEY msx Hackney
Reading Society 1815
- 1910. Minute
books 1815-1910 (Hackney PL). VCH Middlesex.
HADLEIGH suf Hadleigh
Book Society 1819?
Subs. list.
HALESWORTH suf Halesworth
Book Society 1773?
Subs. list.
HALIFAX yor Halifax
Book Club 1735?
HALIFAX yor Halifax
Clergy Society 1805?
Subs. list.
HALSTEAD ess Halstead
Book Society 1818
Rules (Essex
RO).
HALSTOCK dor Halstock
Reading Society 1770?
Subscribers'
list, D. Rowland, Eight Sermons, 1774.
HAMPSTEAD msx Hampstead
Book Society 1798?
Subs. list.
HAMSTERLEY dur Hamsterly
Book Society 1790
BBTI.
HARLESTON nor Harleston
Book Club 1767
BBTI. Subs. list
(1796).
HARROW msx Harrow
Reading Society 1810?
Subs. list
(1813).
HARTINGTON der Hartington
Book Club 1786?
Sold to Union
Book Society in 1787.
HARTINGTON der Hartington
Union Book Society 1787
Accounts
1787-1821 in Derbyshire RO.
HAVERFORDWEST pem
Clerical Book Club 1709?
SPCK Archives.
HAY-ON-WYE bre Hay
Book Club 1820?
List in John
Johnson.
HAYLE cnw Reading
Society 1830?
Listed in Report
of the State of Literary, Scientific, and Mechanics' Institutions [SDUK], 1841.
HELSTON cnw Helston
Book Club 1785?
Subscribers' list,
T. Anburey, Travels, 1789; R. Jones, Poems, 1825.
HELSTON cnw Helston
Book Club Union 1825?
Subscribers'
list, R. Jones, Poems, 1825.
HEMSWORTH yor Hemsworth
Book Society 1809?
Subs. list.
HEPTONSTALL yor Heptonstall
Book Club 1769
For Baptists.
Listed in Beckwith. N & Q, 1938, Dec. 17, 439 (Beckwith).
HEREFORD hef Hereford
Reading Society 1796
BBTI.
HEREFORD hef Reading
Society 1796
Kaufman,
Libraries & their Users, 1969.
HERNE HILL sur Herne
Hill Book Society 1819
Subs. list.
HERTFORD her Hertford
Book Society 1815
- 1859. Minutes
(Hertfordshire RO).
HIGH WYCOMBE buk
Book Club [or Reading Society] 1799?
Kaufman,
Libraries & their Users, 1969. Gentleman's Magazine, November 1800, 1053.
May be same as Wycombe Library, subscriber to G. Redford & T.H. Riches,
History ... Uxbridge, 1818.
HIGHGATE msx Highgate
Book Society 1790?
- 1922. Subs.
list (1811). Minute books 1828-1922 in Highgate Literary & Scientific
Institution.
HILLSBOROUGH dow
Hillsborough Book Club 1790?
- 1796. Adams
RSU. Closed by the Marquis of Down.
HINGHAM nor Hingham
Book Club 1790?
- 1831. Label in
John Johnson. Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969.
HITCHIN her Hitchin
Book Society 1800?
- 1824. Accounts
(Hertfordshire RO).
HITCHIN her Hitchin
Circulating Book Society 1840
Minutes 1840-63
(Hertfordshire RO).
HITCHIN her Hitchin
New Book Society 1813
Cat. 1819.
Hitchin Museum.
HOLBORN msx Hatton
garden Reading Society 1799?
Subs. list.
HOLSWORTHY dev Holdsworthy
Book Society 1810?
Subscribers'
list, J. Price, Worthies of Devon, 1810. In some sources spelled Holdsworthy
[Manley = Holdsworthy].
HOLYWELL fli Holywell
Reading Society 1820?
List (1823) in
Clwyd RO.
HOMERTON msx Homerton
Ladies Reading Society 1810?
Subs. list
(1812).
HONLEY yor Honley
Book Club 1750?
- 1823. Kaufman,
Libraries & their Users, 1969.
HOPTON nor Book
Society 1845?
1851 Census.
HORNCASTLE lin Clergy
Society 1744?
Subs. list.
Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969.
HORSHAM sus Horsham
Book Club 1810?
HORSHAM sus Horsham
Library Society 1810?
- 1820.
HUDDERSFIELD yor
Springfield Book Society 1849
Minutes 1849-50
(West Yorkshire Archives Huddersfield).
HUMSHAUGH nob Reading
Society 1845?
Accounts &
Papers. 1852-53. Education. 1854. Based on 1851 Census.
HUNGERFORD ber Medical
Reading Society 1825?
Taunton Courier,
3 November, 1830. Met in The Bear.
HUNMANBY yor Hunmanby
Book Society 1829?
Subs. list.
HUNTINGDON hun Fountain
Inn Club 1780
- 1800. Kaufman,
Libraries & their Users, 1969.
HUNTINGDON hun George
Inn Book Club 1742
- 1824.
Huntingdon County L. Not in ESTC? Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969.
HUNTINGDON hun Ladies'
Book Society 1824?
Listed in
History of Huntingdon, 1854.
HUNTINGDON hun Literary
Society 1817
- 1830. Listed
in History of Huntingdon, 1854.
HURSTMONCEAUX sus
Hurstmonceaux Library Society 1824?
Subs. list.
HYDE che Literary
Society 1823?
1851 Census.
HYTHE ham Literary
& Reading Society 1840?
J.W. Hudson,
History of Adult Education, 1851. Listed in Accounts & Papers: 1852-53.
Population. Education. Census of 1851. Vol. 34, 1854. Listed in Kelly's
Directory of the Six Home Counties, 1851.
ILFRACOMBE dev Ilfracombe
Reading Society 1845?
Accounts &
Papers. 1852-53. Education. 1854. Based on 1851 Census.
INSHEWAN per Reading
Society 1810
Typescript of
Minutes (1810-54) in Perth County Library.
INVERNESS inv Inverness
Literary Club 1822
After 1847 held
at Raining's Library.
IPSWICH suf Chapel
Book Society 1794
For
Congregationalists. Ipswich RO.
IPSWICH suf Golden
Lion Book Club 1784?
Subs. list.
IPSWICH suf Ipswich
Book & Pamphlet Club 1808
- 1819. Held at
the shop of Robert Deck. Tony Copsey, Book Distribution & Printing in
Suffolk 1534-1850, 1994.
IPSWICH suf Ipswich
Book Society 1764
Subs. list.
Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969. Minutes &c. (Suffolk RO).
IPSWICH suf St
Nicholas Chapel Book Society 1799
Kaufman,
Libraries & their Users, 1969.
IPSWICH suf Tacket
Street Chapel Book Society 1794
Kaufman,
Libraries & their Users, 1969.
IXWORTH suf Ixworth
Book Club 1790?
Subs. list.
JEDBURGH rox Jedburgh
Reading Society 1830?
The New
Statistical Account of Scotland, 1845. Vol. III, p. 20.
KENDAL wes Kendal
Book Club 1761
Cats. 1800,
1808, 1839 (Kendal PL, Kendal RO). Kaufman, 1969. Mannex's Directory of
Westmorland, 1851. Parson & White, History, Directory ... of Cumberland
& Westmorland, 1829.
KENILWORTH war Kenilworth
Reading Society 1795
John Johnson.
Listed in Slater's Royal National & Commercial Directory, 1850.
KENSINGTON msx Kensington
Book Society 1801
Subs. list
(1823).
KENSINGTON msx Kensington
Select Book Society 1819
T. Faulkner,
History ... Kensington, 1820.
KER ant Ker
Reading Society 1830?
Subs. list -
William Anderson, Collection, 1830. Adams, Popular Culture, 1830.
KETTERING noh Kettering
Reading Society 1772?
Subs. list.
Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969.
KIBWORTH lei Kibworth
& Harborough Book Society 1772
Shakespeare
Birthplace Library. Accounts 1772-1889 in Leicester RO.
KIBWORTH lei Kibworth
Book Society 1724?
Kaufman,
Libraries & their Users, 1969.
KIDDERMINSTER wor
Kidderminster Reading Society 1756?
Subs. list.
KIDDERMINSTER wor
Methodist Reading Society 1820?
Label in John
Johnson.
KILLEIGH kig Killeigh
Book Society 1824?
Accounts 1840-68
(NL Ireland).
KILROOT ant Kilroot
& Dobbs Land Library 1835?
Bookplate -
Adams, Popular Culture, 124. Dated bookplate (1837) in private collection.
KILSBY noh Kilsby
Book Society 1758?
Subs. list.
KIMBOLTON hun Kimbolton
Book Club 1768
Subs. list.
Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969.
KINCARDINE rcr Reading
Club 1838?
The New
Statistical Account of Scotland, 1845. Vol. XIV, p. 431.
KING'S LYNN nor Lynn
Literary Society 1770?
Subs. list.
KINGTON hef Kington
Reading Society 1802
KIRKBY LONSDALE wes
Kirkby Lonsdale Book Club 1794
Had permanent
library. - 1850.
LANCASTER lan Lancaster
Book Club 1751?
LANCASTER lan Lancaster
New Book Club 1751?
Subs. list.
LAVENHAM suf Lavenham
Book Society 1786
Subs. list.
Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969.
LAVERICK ant Laverick
Reading Society 1830?
Subs. list -
William Anderson, Collection, 1830. Adams, Popular Culture, 124.
LEEDS yor Clergymen's
Society 1760?
Subs. list.
LEEDS yor Holbeck
Book Society 1820?
Leeds Directory,
1830.
LEEK sta Leek
Reading Society 1759?
Subs. list.
LEICESTER lei Blue
Bell Inn Society 1743
Defunct by 1823?
Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969.
LEICESTER lei Friends
Book Society 1845
Records
1845-1937 (Leicestershire RO).
LEICESTER lei Independent
Reading Society 1805?
Subs. list.
LEICESTER lei Leicester
Book Society 1743 Probably ceased ca. 1823.
Subs. list
(1748). Kaufman, Libraries & their Users, 1969. Still going?
LEICESTER lei Old
Mitre Book Society 1780?
Subs. list.
LEICESTER lei Three
Crowns Book Club 1770?
LEOMINSTER hef Leominster
Reading Society 1811
BBTI. Hereford
Journal, 12 June, 1811.
LESSONS ant Lessons
Reading Society 1830?
Subs. list -
William Anderson, Collection, 1830. Adams, Popular Culture, 124.
LEVEROGE dow Leveroge
Reading Society 1825?
Subs. list,
Anderson, 1830. Adams, Reading Societies in Ulster.
LEYBURN yor Leyburn
Book Club 1817
Subs. list
LICHFIELD sta Lichfield
Book Society 1780?
Kaufman, Libraries
& their Users, 1969.
LICHFIELD sta Lichfield
New Book Society 1786?
Subs. list.
LINCOLN lin Lincoln
Book Society 1758
- 1860. Records
(Lincolnshire Archives).
LINCOLN lin Lincoln
Literary Society 1787?
Subs. list.
LINCOLN lin Lincoln
Monthly Book Society 1792
Records
1792-1865 (Lincolnshire Archives).
LINCOLN lin Literary
Society 1790?
Kaufman,
Libraries & their Users, 1969.
LINTON cam Linton
Book Society 1797?
Subscribers'
list, W. Watson, Historical Account of Wisbech, 1827.
LISBURN ant Lisburn
Reading Society 1824?
Permanent
library. Adams, Reading Societies in Ulster.
LISKEARD cnw Reading
Society 1791
Kaufman,
Libraries & their Users, 1969.
LITCHAM nor Litcham
Book Society 1796?
Subs. list.
LIVERPOOL lan Amicable
Book Society 1812
BBTI. Minutes
1812-29 (Liverpool RO).
LIVERPOOL lan St
Paul's Square Book Club 1757?
LIVERPOOL lan Talbot
Book Club 1758?
Liverpool
Advertiser, 10 February, 10 March, 1758.
LLANCARFAN gla Llancarfan
Book Society 1798?
LONDON msx Eclectic
Book Society 1812
Minutes 1812-20
(Guildhall L).
LONDON msx Paul's
Head Reading Society 1787
Kaufman,
Libraries & their Users, 1969.