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Catalogue
of Saffron Walden Public Library. Saffron Walden,
(1870)
- This was the third catalogue
of the books belonging to the Literary and Scientific
Institution, which the public could subscribe to
use.
- The first catalogue of the Literary
and Scientific Institute was made by Mr. Hart in
1843, but no version survives.
- The second catalogue, which
dates from 1852 lists several hundred works under
ten classes, including eighty-five works of fiction.
- This 1870 catalogue was drawn
up after the library had been enlarged in 1867 by
the addition of the libraries of the Horticultural
and Agricultural Societies. The public library it
refers to is actually what we think of as the library
of the Literary and Scientific Institute –
there was no County Library yet.
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