Victorian London - Education - Libraries and Reading Rooms - Circulating libraries

LIBRARIES. The reading portion of the public who, if blessed with libraries, are upon a temporary visit to the metropolis, necessarily constrained to forego their enjoyment, may with the more numerous, but less fortunate class be fully gratified by a resort to either of the subjoined, amply supplied book establishments, where works by the month, week, or day, may be obtained at a very moderate charge these libraries being based upon a system that, while it advances the interests of the proprietors, mainly contributes to the comfort and convenience of all temporary sojourners in London. They are as follows: -

 Andrews's, Bond Street;  Booth, Duke Street, Portland Place; Bull, Holles Street, Cavendish Square; Cawthorn, Cockspur Street; Lowe, Lamb's Conduit Street; Cook and Ollivier, Pall Mall; Cotes, Cheapside; Churton, Holles Street, Cavendish Square; Cresswell, Crawford Street; Ebers, Bond Street; Hookham, Bond Street; Hodgson, Great Marylebone Street; Hebert, Cheapside; Loyd, Harley Street; Mitchell, Bond Street ; McClary, St. James's Street; Paine, High Street, Marylebone; Sams, St. James's Street; Seguin, Regent Street; Saunders and Ottley, Conduit Street; Spencer, Holborn; Swails, Great Russell Street; Wright, Crawford Street.

Mogg's New Picture of London and Visitor's Guide to it Sights, 1844