If you haven’t already done so, look first at David Allan’s "A Nation of Readers: the lending library in Georgian England" (BL, 2008) and K.A. Manley’s “Books, borrowers and shareholders: Scottish circulating and subscription libraries before 1825: a survey and listing” (Edinburgh Bibliographical Society and NLS, 2012). Both have geographical / regional lists. For Wales, various chapters in “A Nation and its Books: a history of the book in Wales”, ed. by Philip Henry Jones and Eiluned Rees (NLW, 1998) cover the topic and period you are interested in. Also worth looking at vols. 2 and 3 of the “Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland” (2006), though there is no regional listing - and it’s not an on-line resource.
The major potential on-line resource was created by Robin Alston, with help from others, listing “all” libraries (of all types) in the UK and Ireland up to 1850. Since his death this has been kept at theSchool of Advanced Study in the University of London but for complicated reasons is not readily accessible. Keith Manley <[log in to unmask]> knows more than anyone else about this field and will probably respond to your enquiry.
Peter Hoare
> On 5 Sep 2017, at 15:05, James Eaton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Dear Colleagues
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> I wonder if I might ask for a little support with locating online resources in relation
> to British 19th century lending/circulating libraries. I am looking ideally for regional
> lists and or histories. Has anyone come across these?
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> Many thanks for any help you can offer.
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> Best wishes
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> James Eaton
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