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Library

Selkirk Library 1400
Westerkirk 1201
Leighton Library 743
Royal High School of Edinburgh 533
Advocates Library 477
Innerpeffray Library 216
Edinburgh University Library 154
Aberdeen Theological Library 145
Wigtown Subscription Library 141
Orkney Library 82
Glasgow University Library 60
St Andrews University Library 36
Chambers' Circulating Library 30
Craigston Castle Library 25
Dumfries Presbytery Library 11
Haddington Library 10
Hunterian Museum Library 8

Borrower title

Mr 1612
Reverend Mr 606
Lieutenant 96
Captain 86
Mrs 69
Sir 56
Reverend 52
Dr 41
Miss 39
Reverend Dr 17
Midshipman 12
Colonel 11
Right Honourable 8
Sous Lieutenant 8
Corporal 5
Prof. 5
Lady 4
Professor 4
Sous-Lieutenant 4
Brigadier General 2
Principal 2
Rev. 2
Adjudant Major 1
Lieutenant Colonel 1
Major 1

Borrower gender

Male 5136
Female 128
Unclear 1
Unknown 1

Borrower occupation

Education 1019
Law 632
School Child 525
Advocate 456
Religion and Clergy 442
Minister/Priest 433
University Student 375
Military 350
Church of Scotland 336
Prisoner of War 324
Agricultural 223
Independent Means 194
Tenant 179
Arts and Letters 161
Farmer 157
Author 151
Medicine and Health 134
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 132
Surgeon 130
Writer/Procurator 118
University Professor 100
Sheriff 99
Presbyterian Seceder 92
Politics/Office Holders 87
Gentleman 62
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 60
MP (Britain) 58
Notaries/Clerks 58
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 50
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 40
Construction 38
School Master/Dominie 33
Architect 28
Dean of Faculty 28
Merchants/Traders 27
Navy 25
Advocate Depute 24
Barrister 17
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 15
Writer to the Signet (WS) 15
Army 14
Banker 14
Clerk of Session 14
Tanner/Currier 13
Judge 12
Mason/Miller 12
Baillie 11
Clerks 11
Factor/Agent 11
Miscellaneous 11
Customs Collector 10
Lord Advocate 10
Dyer 9
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 9
Engineer 8
Lay Preacher 8
Teacher 8
Wife/Spouse 8
Chaplain 7
Lord Provost/Provost 7
Accountant 6
Poet 6
Baron of the Exchequer 5
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 5
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 4
Land Manager/Factor 4
Librarian 4
Mariner 4
Physician 4
Print and Book Trade 4
Solicitor-General 4
Booksellers 3
Surveyor 3
Widow 3
Bookbinder 2
Builder 2
Curator 2
Episcopalian 2
Lord President 2
Officer 2
Printers 2
Ships Captain 2
Ships Owner 2
Tutor 2
Advocate’s Clerk 1
Brewer 1
Gardener 1
Mill Owner 1
Publishers 1
Service Provision and Hospitality 1
Tax Collector 1
Watchmaker 1

Author

Sir John Sinclair 308
Robert Henry 243
Hugh Blair 235
William Russell 221
Charles Rollin 200
Edward Gibbon 150
Ann Radcliffe 126
Robert Heron 82
Flavius Josephus 80
Geoffrey Chaucer 71
William Smellie 71
John Logan 70
Bryce Johnston 69
Donald Campbell 69
Richard Cumberland 65
Thomas Mortimer 61
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 59
Charlotte Turner Smith 56
Robert McCulloch 51
John Evans 49
Dr John Moore 48
Johann Caspar Lavater 43
Tobias George Smollett 43
Dugald Stewart 42
John Gillies 40
Reverend Augustus Toplady 37
Robert Burns 37
Doctor Henry Hunter 36
Joseph Moser 34
Bielby Porteus 32
Rev. John Bennett 32
Samuel Jackson Pratt 32
James Boswell 31
Karl Philipp Moritz 31
Freiherr von Adolf Knigge 29
James Beattie 29
Alexander Pope 28
Bryan Edwards 28
Charles John Ann Hereford 28
Thomas Gisborne 26
Pierre Nicolas Chantreau 24
Samuel Hearne 23
Henry Venn 22
Henry Mackenzie 21
William Paley 21
Edward Stillingfleet 19
Pausanias 19
Royal College of Physicians of London 19
William Roscoe 19
Carl Peter Thunberg 18
John Gifford 18
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon 17
Stephen Jones 17
Benjamin Franklin 15
Peter Pindar John Wolcot 15
Jacob Bryant 13
Jonathan Swift 13
John Aikin 12
Henry Lemaire 11
Adam Smith 10
Jean Siffrein Maury 10
William Robertson 10
Arthur Young 9
Hector Macneill 9
John Lettice 9
William Belsham 9
George Chalmers 8
James Cavanah Murphy 8
William Beloe 8
William Penn 8
Académie royale des sciences et belles lettres (Berlin, Germany) 7
Linnean Society of London 7
Robert Blair 7
William Mitford 7
Christoph Martin Wieland 6
Friedrich Schiller 6
James Stuart 6
Nicolas Revett 6
William Newcome 6
Joseph Towers 5
Richard Joseph Sullivan 5
Societas Regia Scientiarum Gottingensis 5
Thomas James Mathias 5
Thomas Starling Norgate 5
William Gilpin 5
Cornelius Tacitus 4
Edward Jones 4
Eliza Parsons 4
Johann David Michaelis 4
Joseph Addison 4
Karl Ulysses von Salis Marschlins 4
Matthew Gregory Lewis 4
Owen Ruffhead 4
Peter Simon Pallas 4
Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall 4
Sir Richard Steele 4
William Godwin 4
Ammianus Marcellinus 3
Horace Bénédict de Saussure 3
James Anderson 3

Book Work

Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 520
Statistical Account of Scotland 308
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 243
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 235
Encyclopaedia Britannica 222
Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians 200
Scots Magazine 185
History of Modern Europe 152
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 150
New Annual Register 126
Mysteries of Udolpho 110
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
Works of Flavius Josephus 80
Observations Made in a Journey through the Western Counties of Scotland, in the Autumn of M.DCC.XCII 74
Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal 73
Canterbury Tales 71
Philosophy of Natural History 71
Sermons [John Logan] 70
Commentary on the Revelation of St John 69
History of Ancient Europe 69
Journey over Land to India 69
Henry [Richard Cumberland] 65
British Plutarch 61
Paul and Virginia 59
Banished Man. A Novel 56
Lectures on the Prophecies of Isaiah 51
Brief Sketch of the Several Denominations into which the Christian World is Divided 49
History of England [Tobias Smollett] 43
Journal during a Residence in France 42
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind 41
Medical Commentaries [Andrew Duncan] 41
History of Ancient Greece, its Colonies and Conquests 40
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect [Robert Burns] 37
Sermons and Essays [Augustus Toplady] 37
Sermons [Henry Hunter] 36
Turkish Tales 34
Gleanings through Wales, Holland and Westphalia ... To which is added Humanity; or The Rights of Nature. A Poem 32
Letters to a Young Lady, on a Variety of Useful and Interesting Subjects 32
Sermons on Several Subjects [Beilby Porteus] 32
Life of Samuel Johnson [James Boswell] 31
Travels, Chiefly on Foot, through Several Parts of England, in 1782 31
Parliamentary Register; or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons 30
History of Spain, from the Establishment of the Colony of Gades by the Phoenicians, to the Death of Ferdinand, surnamed The Sage 28
History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies 28
Works of Alexander Pope 28
Scotch Preacher: or, A Collection of Sermons, by Some of the Most Eminent Clergymen of the Church of Scotland 26
Elements of Moral Science 24
Enquiry into the Duties of Men in the Higher and Middle Classes of Society in Great Britain 24
Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind 24
Philosophical, Political, and Literary Travels in Russia, during the Years 1788 & 1789 24
Adventurer 23
German Gil Blas; or, The Adventures of Peter Claus 23
Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean 23
Complete Duty of Man: or, A System of Doctrinal and Practical Christianity 22
Graeciae Descriptio Accurata 19
Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent 19
Medical Transactions, Published by the College of Physicians in London 19
Secret Journal of a Self-Observer; or, Confessions and Familiar Letters of the Rev. J. C. Lavater 19
Sermons on Some of the Principal Doctrines of the Christian Religion 19
View of the Evidences of Christianity 19
History of France, from the Earliest Times, to the Accession of Louis the Sixteenth 18
Travels in Europe, Africa, and Asia Performed between the years 1770 and 1779 18
History of Poland, from its Origin as a Nation to the Commencement of the Year 1795 17
Natural History of Birds 17
Journey through Holland and Germany 16
Analytical Review 15
Mirror 15
English Review, or An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature 14
Works of Peter Pindar 14
Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin 14
Gulliver's Travels 13
Observations upon the Plagues Inflicted upon the Egyptians 13
Letters from a Father to his Son, on Various Topics, relative to Literature and the Conduct of Life 12
New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature 12
French Gil Blas; or, Adventures of Henry Lanson 11
British Critic 10
Essays on Philosophical Subjects 10
Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India 10
Principles of Eloquence; Adapted to the Pulpit and the Bar 10
Letters on a Tour through Various Parts of Scotland, in the Year 1792 9
Memoirs of the Reign of George III. to the Session of Parliament Ending A.D. 1793 9
Scotland's Skaith; or, The History o' Will and Jean 9
Travels during the Years 1787, 1788, 1789 9
Fruits of Solitude 8
Life of Thomas Ruddiman 8
Miscellanies: Consisting of Poems, Classical Extracts, and Oriental Apologues 8
New General History of Scotland [Robert Heron] 8
Travels in Portugal; through the Provinces of Entre Douro e Minho, Beira, Estremadura, and Alem-Tejo, in the Years 1789 and 1790 8
Catalogue of the Leightonian Library, Dunblane 7
Commentarii de Rebus in Scientia Naturali et Medicina Gestis 7
Histoire de l'Acádemie Royale des Sciences et des Belles Lettres de Berlin 7
History of Greece [William Mitford] 7
Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester 7
Poetical Works of Robert Blair 7
Transactions of the Linnean Society 7
Antiquities of Athens Measured and Delineated 6
Catalogue of the Faculty of Advocates Library 6
Julia de Roubigné 6
Observations on our Lord's Conduct as a Divine Instructor 6
Practical Philosophy of Social Life; or The Art of Conversing with Men 6

Book language

English 5154
French 59
Latin 32
German 19
Italian 5
Greek 3
Scots 3
Hebrew 1
Icelandic 1

Book place of publication

London 3650
Edinburgh 1483
Perth 167
Oxford 74
Dublin 52
Paris 43
Leipzig 22
Liverpool 19
York 19
Berlin 10
Göttingen 8
Cambridge 5
Norwich 5
The Hague 5
Amsterdam 3
Calcutta 3
Lausanne 3
Neuchâtel 3
Philadelphia 3
Altenburg 2
Frankfurt am Main 2
Leiden 2
Liverno 2
Shrewsbury 2
Utrecht 2
Canterbury 1
Carlisle 1
Copenhagen 1
Dresden 1
Glasgow 1
Gloucester 1
Halle 1
Jena 1
Manchester 1
Pisa 1
Prague 1
Siena 1
Verona 1

Book format

8vo 3309
4to 1002
12mo 957
16mo 34
folio 34
18mo 22

Genre

History 1194
Periodicals 1171
Sermons 513
Fiction 424
Travel 408
Politics, Society and Political Economy 342
Reference Works 239
Poetry 228
Theology 204
Lives 180
Natural Philosophy 146
Philosophy and Morality 119
Belles Lettres 94
Medicine 81
Law 54
Education 51
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 38
Fine Arts 7
Mathematics 5
Drama 4

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