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Reviews MONTE LITTLE The Salisbury Mechanics Institution, 1833-41. Trowbridge, Wiltshire Library and Museum Service, 1982. (Wiltshire monographs, no. 2) 27 ff. no price. ISBN 0-86080-098-9. MONTE LITTLE Samuel Fancourt, 1678-1768: pioneer librarian. Trowbridge, Wiltshire Library and Museum Service, 1984. (Wiltshire monographs, nO.3) 22, xviii ff. £3. ISBN 0-86080-121-7. The first of these pamphlets carries a note that it is largely taken from the author's unpublished FLA thesis, A Study of libraries in Salisbury, 1700-1850 (1973). The same is true of the second, although it does not say as much. It may perhaps have required greater revision for publication in this series after ten years, and of the two, is of the more general interest. Fancourt's name appears in virtually every account of English library history of the eighteenth century. He is sufficiently famous to have been included in the DNB, where he is designated 'dissenting minister and projector of circulating libraries'. Fancourt's career began in the non- conformist ministry which brought him to Salisbury in 172I. Partly as a result of financial hardship, but also inspired to improve library provision initially for his co-religionists, he first went into partnership with local bookseller Edward Easton in about 1737 to provide a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Library History Edinburgh University Press

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Library History , Volume 7 (2): 7 – Jan 1, 1985
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MONTE LITTLE The Salisbury Mechanics Institution, 1833-41. Trowbridge, Wiltshire Library and Museum Service, 1982. (Wiltshire monographs, no. 2) 27 ff. no price. ISBN 0-86080-098-9. MONTE LITTLE Samuel Fancourt, 1678-1768: pioneer librarian. Trowbridge, Wiltshire Library and Museum Service, 1984. (Wiltshire monographs, nO.3) 22, xviii ff. £3. ISBN 0-86080-121-7. The first of these pamphlets carries a note that it is largely taken from the author's unpublished FLA thesis, A Study of libraries in Salisbury, 1700-1850 (1973). The same is true of the second, although it does not say as much. It may perhaps have required greater revision for publication in this series after ten years, and of the two, is of the more general interest. Fancourt's name appears in virtually every account of English library history of the eighteenth century. He is sufficiently famous to have been included in the DNB, where he is designated 'dissenting minister and projector of circulating libraries'. Fancourt's career began in the non- conformist ministry which brought him to Salisbury in 172I. Partly as a result of financial hardship, but also inspired to improve library provision initially for his co-religionists, he first went into partnership with local bookseller Edward Easton in about 1737 to provide a

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