LEEDS LIBRARY.. A Complete Catalogue of the Books in the Leeds Library, a Copy of the Laws as they are now in Force, and a List of Subscribers. Leeds: Printed by B. Dewhirst, 1817. [4], 235, [19]pp. [Bound with:] A Supplement, to the Catalogue of Books, in the Leeds Library. Leeds: Printed by B. Dewhirst, 1820. 23, [1]pp. [Bound with:] A Supplement to the Catalogue of Books, in the Leeds Library.1822

Leeds: Printed by B. Dewhirst, 16pp. 3 Parts in one, 8vo (210 x 130 mm), orig. printed boards, joints repaired with archival paper. This is the ninth catalogue of the library which was founded in 1768 and is the oldest proprietary institution of its kind in the British Isles. It was known at various periods of its early life as the Leeds Circulating Library, the Leeds Old Subscription Library, and simple the Leeds Old Library. Mary Robinson had been librarian up until her death in 1813, "and her daughter Mary, who had been her assistant, succeeded her and presumably compiled this, our ninth catalogue... Following the title-page and prelims, the numbered pages listed our books, followed on the last unnumbered pages by the customary Rules of the Library and List of Proprietors."—Hall. Hall makes no mention of the two supplements that are found in our copy. Provenance: Neat small stamp of the private Athenaeum Library Liverpool on the title page and with de-accessioned stamp on the inside of rear cover. Hall, The Leeds Library: A Check-List of Publications Relating to its History from 1768 to 1977. 1983. 9; JISC locating a single copy of the main catalogue at Leeds Libraries, the two supplementary parts seems to be unrecorded.