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Library

Selkirk Library 1012
Leighton Library 640
Westerkirk 603
Royal High School of Edinburgh 411
Advocates Library 371
Edinburgh University Library 191
Innerpeffray Library 186
Wigtown Subscription Library 143
Aberdeen Theological Library 129
Orkney Library 86
Glasgow University Library 68
St Andrews University Library 54
Craigston Castle Library 27
Dumfries Presbytery Library 12
Hunterian Museum Library 10
Chambers' Circulating Library 3

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Mr 1181
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Dr 39
Reverend 35
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Lady 4
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Borrower gender

Male 3835
Female 104
Unclear 1

Borrower occupation

Education 940
Law 477
University Student 419
School Child 407
Religion and Clergy 393
Minister/Priest 389
Advocate 351
Church of Scotland 319
Military 290
Prisoner of War 267
Agricultural 162
Independent Means 134
Arts and Letters 132
Medicine and Health 127
Surgeon 123
Author 122
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Farmer 111
University Professor 106
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 93
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Writer/Procurator 77
Politics/Office Holders 73
Presbyterian Seceder 63
Notaries/Clerks 50
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 48
MP (Britain) 48
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 43
Gentleman 41
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 36
Construction 26
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Writer to the Signet (WS) 10
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Chaplain 6
Customs Collector 6
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Miscellaneous 6
Poet 6
Wife/Spouse 6
Accountant 5
Baron of the Exchequer 5
Engineer 5
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 5
Curator 4
Lord Provost/Provost 4
Physician 4
Solicitor-General 4
Surveyor 4
Tax Collector 4
Lay Preacher 3
Print and Book Trade 3
Printers 3
Advocate’s Clerk 2
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 2
Librarian 2
Lord President 2
Mariner 2
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 2
Messenger-at-arms 2
Officer 2
Ships Captain 2
Booksellers 1
Brewer 1
Elder 1
Episcopalian 1
Lord Justice Clerk 1
Publishers 1
Retailer/Shopkeeper 1
Service Provision and Hospitality 1
Unknown denomination 1

Author

Doctor Henry Hunter 356
Hugh Blair 254
Robert Henry 243
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy 196
William Russell 152
James Bruce 98
Edward Gibbon 83
Mary Pilkington 78
William Smellie 71
Johann Lorenz Mosheim 48
François Le Vaillant 46
James Thomson Minister at Quarrelwood 44
Thomas Pennant 39
Archibald Alison 37
Virgil 30
Baron Jean-Baptiste-Barthélemy Lesseps 26
James Macpherson 26
William Combe 26
Captain D. Williams 25
James Beattie 24
Johann Caspar Lavater 24
William Paley 22
James Bell 21
John Drinkwater 20
Samuel Shaw 20
William Rutherford 20
John Le Couteur 19
Royal College of Physicians of London 19
Charlotte Lennox 18
Anna Maria Mackenzie 16
Joseph Addison 16
Eliza Parsons 13
John Macdonald 13
William Marshall 13
Edmund Burke 12
John Logan 12
Sir David Dalrymple Lord Hailes 12
William Beckford 11
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier 10
John Meares 10
Adam Smith 8
Robert Gray 8
Society of Antiquaries of London 8
Académie royale des sciences et belles lettres (Berlin, Germany) 7
Joseph Ames 7
William Herbert 7
William Mitford 7
William Shakespeare 7
Comte Maurice Auguste Benyowsky 6
Donald Monro 6
Fowler Comings 6
James Stuart 6
Nicolas Revett 6
Gaetano Filangieri 5
Linnaeus 5
Societas Regia Scientiarum Gottingensis 5
Torbern Bergman 5
Dr Samuel Johnson 4
George Chapman 4
Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat Marquis de Condorcet 4
John Nichols 4
Owen Ruffhead 4
Richard Cumberland 4
Soame Jenyns 4
Tobias George Smollett 4
Horace Bénédict de Saussure 3
I. F. Henry Drevon 3
James Anderson 3
M. Florian 3
Peter Pindar John Wolcot 3
Robert Walker M. D. 3
Alexander Pope 2
Andrew Greenfield 2
Ann Radcliffe 2
Aubin Louis Millin 2
Charles John Ann Hereford 2
Court of Chancery Great Britain 2
Daniel Albert Wyttenbach 2
Francis Grose 2
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 2
Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray 2
Joseph Berington 2
L. (Louis) Dutens 2
Louis François Armand du Plessis Duc de Richelieu 2
Percivall Pott 2
Polybius 2
Reale Accademia Ercolanese di Archeologia 2
Richard Gough 2
Stewart Kyd 2
Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine 2
William Brown 2
William Nicholson 2
William Robertson 2
Accademia Della Scienze Di Siena Detta De'Fisiocritica 1
Aeschylus 1
Antonio de Capmany y de Montpalau 1
Apuleius 1
Assemblée Nationale Constituante (France) 1
Charles de Peyssonnel 1
Christian Gottlob Heyne 1

Book Work

Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 497
Sacred Biography: or, The History of the Patriarchs from Adam to Abraham 356
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 243
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 235
Encyclopaedia Britannica 222
Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece 196
Scots Magazine 185
History of Modern Europe 152
New Annual Register 126
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile [James Bruce] 91
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 83
Delia, a Pathetic and Interesting Tale 78
Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal 73
Philosophy of Natural History 71
Ecclesiastical History, Antient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Present Century 48
Denial; or, The Happy Retreat 44
Travels from the Cape of Good-Hope, into the Interior Parts of Africa 43
Medical Commentaries [Andrew Duncan] 41
Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste 37
Companion. Being a Choice cCllection of the Most Admired Pieces from the Best Authors 33
Parliamentary Register; or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons 30
Works of Virgil 30
Modern, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography 27
Tour in Scotland, MDCCLXIX 27
Devil upon Two Sticks in England 26
Poems of Ossian 26
Scotch Preacher: or, A Collection of Sermons, by Some of the Most Eminent Clergymen of the Church of Scotland 26
Travels in Kamtschatka, During the Years 1787 and 1788 26
Captain Williams's Narrative 25
Elements of Moral Science 24
Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind 24
Horae Paulinae, or The Truth of the Scripture History of St Paul Evinced 22
Sermons, Preached before the University of Glasgow 21
History of the Late Siege of Gibraltar 20
Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. into Abyssinia, Abridged by Samuel Shaw 20
View of Antient History 20
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres 19
Letters Chiefly from India; Containing an Account of the Military Transactions on the Coast of Malabar 19
Medical Transactions, Published by the College of Physicians in London 19
Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides; MDCCLXXII 18
Monmouth; A Tale Founded on Historic Facts 16
Works of Joseph Addison 16
Analytical Review 15
English Review, or An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature 14
Rural Economy of the Midland Counties 13
The history of Miss Meredith 13
Travels, in Various Parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, During a Series of Thirty Years and Upwards 13
Biographia Scotica, or An Attempt towards an History of the Lives and Writings of Eminent Men of Scotland 12
New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature 12
Reflections on the Revolution in France 12
Sermons [John Logan] 12
Descriptive Account of a Part of the Island of Jamaica 11
Slave of Passion, or, The Fruits of Werter: A Novel 11
Elements of Chemistry [Antoine Laurent Lavoisier] 10
Voyages made in the Years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West Coast of America 10
Archaeologia, or Miscellaneous Tracts, Relating to Antiquity 8
Key to the Old Testament and Apocrypha 8
Theory of Moral Sentiments 8
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
Typographical Antiquities: or An Historical Account of the Origin and Progress of Printing in Great Britain and Ireland 7
Works of William Shakespeare 7
Antiquities of Athens Measured and Delineated 6
Catalogue of the Faculty of Advocates Library 6
Memoirs and Travels of Mauritius Augustus Count de Benyowsky 6
Sermons on Various Subjects and Occasions [Fowler Comings] 6
Treatise on Medical and Pharmaceutical Chymistry 6
Amoenitates Academicae 5
Commentationes Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Gottingensis 5
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 5
Observations sur la Physique, sur l'Histoire Naturelle et sur les Arts 5
Parnaso Italiano, Ovvero Raccolta de'Poeti Classici Italiani 5
Physical and Chemical Essays [Torbern Bergman] 5
Science de la Législation 5
Ana, ou Collection de Bons Mots, Contes, Pensées Détachées, etc 4
Annals of Agriculture, and other Useful Arts 4
Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica 4
Gentleman's Magazine 4
Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett 4
Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays 4
Reports of Sir George Croke 4
Statutes at Large 4
Treatise on Education with a Sketch of the Author's Method 4
Works of Soame Jenyns 4
Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson 4
Annales de Chimie 3
Asiatick Researches; or, Transactions of the Society, instituted in Bengal 3
Essays Relating to Agriculture and Rural Affairs [James Anderson] 3
Inquiry, into the Small-Pox 3
Journey through Sweden 3
Life of Voltaire, by the Marquis de Condorcet 3
Oeuvres de M. de Florian 3
Pindar's Odes [Peter Pindar] 3
Travels into the Interior Parts of Africa, by the Way of the Cape of Good Hope; in the years 1780, 81, 82, 83, 84 and 85 3
Voyages dans les Alpes Précédés d'un Essai sur l'Histoire Naturelle des Environs de Genève 3
Antiquities of Herculaneum 2
Antiquities of Scotland 2

Book language

English 3831
French 65
Latin 34
Italian 11
German 4
Greek 2
Icelandic 1
Spanish 1

Book place of publication

London 3053
Edinburgh 954
Paris 41
Dublin 15
Leipzig 11
Stockholm 10
Berlin 9
Birmingham 8
Göttingen 7
Amsterdam 6
Venice 6
The Hague 5
Naples 4
Calcutta 3
Neuchâtel 3
Philadelphia 2
Aberdeen 1
Cambridge 1
Canterbury 1
Copenhagen 1
Dresden 1
Halle 1
Lausanne 1
Leiden 1
London? 1
Madrid 1
Perth 1
Prague 1
Sherborne 1
Siena 1
Turin 1
Verona 1
York 1
i.e. Paris? 1

Book format

8vo 2715
4to 842
12mo 320
folio 62
14mo 1
score 1

Genre

Periodicals 1102
History 673
Sermons 657
Theology 439
Fiction 399
Travel 325
Reference Works 232
Natural Philosophy 142
Belles Lettres 127
Poetry 124
Medicine 86
Lives 69
Law 57
Politics, Society and Political Economy 43
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 35
Philosophy and Morality 33
Drama 10
Fine Arts 9
Education 5
Mathematics 1

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