subscription library

noun

1. a commercial lending library

Example Sentences

And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature,—that for a subscription library.

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He superintended the formation of a subscription library in the parish, and took the whole management of it upon himself.

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It began as a subscription library with a collection of 700 volumes, and was located in a small room at No. 49 Fulton street.

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Franklin establishes the first subscription library in the United Colonies.

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And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature, that for a subscription library.

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