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The London Library is an independent lending library in London, established in 1841. Membership is open to all, on payment of an annual subscription, with life and corporate memberships also available
Entrance to the London Library in St James's Square
Thomas Carlyle by Robert Scott Tait, 31 July 1854
19th-century London Library book label
20th-century London Library book label designed by Reynolds Stone
St James's Square
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St James's Square is the only square in the St James's district of the City of Westminster and is a garden square. It has predominantly Georgian and Neo-Georgian architecture. For its first two hundre
London Library
…was founded on the initiative of Thomas Carlyle, who was dissatisfied with some of the policies at the British Museum Library. It is located at 14 St James's Square, in the St James's area of the City of Westminster, which has been its home since 1845. T. S. Eliot, a long-serving president of the library, argued…
The statue of William III by John Bacon at the centre of the square
St James's Square circa 1752.
St James's Square in 1799
15 and 14 St James's Square