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Augusta County (Va.) Lending Library Ledger, 1823-1829. Local government records collection, Augusta County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.
This item came to the Library of Virginia in transfers of court papers from Augusta County under the accession number 43658.
This lending library operated in Augusta County, Virginia, during the mid-nineteenth century. Using the list of borrowers as evidence, it is probable that the library was some type of subscription library. All listed users of the library were men, and many were considered prominent, influential citizens of Augusta County -- James Crawford, William Donaghe, William T. Eskridge, Nicholas C. Kinney, Archibald Stuart, and Hugh Sheffey.
Augusta County (Va.) Lending Library Ledger, 1823-1829, functioned as a circulation register. Transactions are listed chronologically under individual accounts with separate entries for loans and returns. For each account, the left page was used to record loans while the right page documented book returns. Each entry includes the date and the name of the book along with the volume number. Books offered by the library included Smith's Essays, Dwight's Travels, Sir Walter Scott's Tales of my Landlord , Gillie's Greece, the works of Shakespeare, Plutarch's Lives, Rob Roy , Silliman's Travels, Don Quixote , History of England , and Ivanhoe .