In the ongoing recovery of evidence of local reading establishments and lending libraries, this fragment shows how individual books were repurposed, no matter who the owner was. Labels for the Southampton Reading Society are found on the front and back boards of this collection of two tragedies by Thomas Noon, writing under the pen name of Talfourd. One board has the return address being Sharland the Bookseller; the other is to be returned to Smarts Library, No. 154 High Street.
