New Circulating Library, Castle Street, Sligo. The Nobility, Gentry, and Public of the Town and Neighbourhood of Sligo, are respectfully informed that a new and extensive Circulating Library is opened, in Castle Street, comprising all the modern works of celebrity, up to the present day. The Proprietor begs to assure those who may subscribe to his Library, that there will be a constant supply of new publications, which he offers to their notice on the following terms: Yearly, ...£1 1 0 Half-Yearly, 0 14 0 Quarterly, ..£0 7 6 Monthly, ...0 3 0 Weekly, ......1 6d. The above Establishment will also be found well supplied with an extensive and carefully selected assortment of Goods in the Silk Mercery, Haberdashery, and Manchester line of business, which the Proprietor begs to assure the Nobility, Gentry and Public of Sligo, and the vicinity, will be offered notice on the lowest possible terms.
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| Summary: | Sheet advertising the Circulating Library, Castle Street, Sligo featuring a printed decorative border pattern framing the text printed on the sheet. Entries for this circulating library operating from this address are present in trade directories and almanacs spanning the years 1812 to 1837. [John Lane's Minerva Press operated as a publisher and circulating library in England from 1770 to 1848 and had a franchise of provincial circulating libraries, providing them with stock]. |
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| Language: | English |
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| Notes: | This fragile item is held in the Department of Ephemera and to be handled with care. Accompanied by two small paper labels, 4.5 x 6.7 cm. and 5.6 x 4.7 cm. [the latter stamped "Ce 34"], engraved by James Waller, Dublin [signed within plate "Waller sc. Dublin"] featuring the words "Sligo Library, Established 1832" on an oval frame (which terminates in a belt-buckle) in which a pastoral landscape is depicted. In it a hare is depicted springing over a small ditch, which a stream passes through, while a castle or fortress can be seen in the distance in the right background. Physical description: 1 sheet ; 13.7 x 8.7 cm.. more |
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