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Brass Subscription Membership Ticket for the Bristol Public Free Library. Brass Subscription Membership Ticket for the Bristol Public Free Library.

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


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