BRISTOL PUBLIC FREE LIBRARY. Brass Subscription Membership Ticket for the Bristol Public Free Library. [c.1870]
Oval brass subscription ticket, Bristol coat of arms & lettering 'Bristol Public Free Library open daily from 10am to 10pm', verso: 'This ticket is issued subject to the rules and regulations'. v.g. 2.3 x 1.9cm.
¶Most probably a subscription ticket for the Old Library, formerly a subscription library patronised by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, but becoming free to the public in 1856. This example has a space for, but does not include, a membership number. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT.
Stock #91808
£120
46, Great Russell Street - (opp. British Museum) - Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3PA
