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Library

Selkirk Library 3952
Westerkirk 2200
Royal High School of Edinburgh 2007
Leighton Library 1072
Advocates Library 1003
Orkney Library 492
Haddington Library 276
Wigtown Subscription Library 224
Innerpeffray Library 216
Edinburgh University Library 157
Chambers' Circulating Library 156
Aberdeen Theological Library 145
Glasgow University Library 60
St Andrews University Library 45
Craigston Castle Library 33
Dumfries Presbytery Library 11
Hunterian Museum Library 8

Borrower title

Mr 4051
Reverend Mr 1122
Lieutenant 308
Mrs 216
Captain 211
Miss 109
Dr 78
Reverend 75
Sir 72
Reverend Dr 64
Colonel 46
Corporal 17
Lady 16
Sous Lieutenant 16
Midshipman 12
Sous-Lieutenant 12
Right Honourable 8
Adjudant Major 7
Professor 6
Brigadier General 5
Lieutenant Colonel 5
Prof. 5
Major 4
Lord 3
Honourable 2
Principal 2
Rev. 2
Bishop 1
Honourable Mrs 1
Madame 1
Provost 1
Staff Sergeant 1

Borrower gender

Male 11663
Female 378
Unknown 17
Unclear 1

Borrower occupation

Education 2624
School Child 1994
Law 1373
Advocate 974
Military 965
Prisoner of War 859
Religion and Clergy 805
Minister/Priest 788
Agricultural 650
Church of Scotland 633
Tenant 542
Independent Means 527
Farmer 430
University Student 422
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 318
Arts and Letters 296
Medicine and Health 286
Surgeon 277
Author 274
Writer/Procurator 274
Politics/Office Holders 222
Sheriff 210
Gentleman 209
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 181
MP (Britain) 145
University Professor 132
Presbyterian Seceder 126
Notaries/Clerks 115
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 104
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 77
Advocate Depute 67
Army 62
School Master/Dominie 61
Dean of Faculty 60
Tanner/Currier 59
Merchants/Traders 58
Navy 58
Construction 50
Mason/Miller 47
Writer to the Signet (WS) 42
Miscellaneous 39
Teacher 37
Barrister 36
Wife/Spouse 36
Architect 32
Clerk of Session 32
Customs Collector 31
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 29
Banker 27
Lord Advocate 27
Judge 26
Poet 22
Factor/Agent 20
Service Provision and Hospitality 20
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 20
Lord Provost/Provost 19
Unknown denomination 19
Mariner 17
Solicitor-General 16
Accountant 14
Engineer 14
Surveyor 13
Lay Preacher 12
Ships Owner 12
Baillie 11
Clerks 11
Baron of the Exchequer 10
Grocer 10
Print and Book Trade 10
Booksellers 9
Brewer 9
Dyer 9
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 9
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 8
Physician 8
Chaplain 7
Mill Owner 7
Retailer/Shopkeeper 7
Land Manager/Factor 6
Librarian 6
Tax Collector 6
Publishers 5
Bookbinder 4
Builder 4
Episcopalian 4
Gardener 4
Lord President 4
Officer 4
Provost 4
Lord Justice Clerk 3
Ships Captain 3
Tutor 3
Widow 3
Curator 2
Printers 2
Privateer 2
Watchmaker 2
Advocate’s Clerk 1
Distiller 1
Druggist/Chemist/Apothecary 1

Author

William Fordyce Mavor 968
Robert Henry 345
Sir John Sinclair 308
William Russell 276
Robert Burns 273
Dr James Currie 236
Hugh Blair 235
Mungo Park 223
Ann Radcliffe 211
Dr John Moore 201
Charles Rollin 200
Edward Gibbon 185
Elizabeth Hamilton 143
James Boswell 124
Maria Edgeworth 108
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 102
John Young 101
Marquis Antoine François Bertrand de Moleville 98
Joseph Hall 96
Bryan Edwards 89
Laurence Sterne 89
Donald Campbell 86
Robert Heron 84
Robert Bisset 83
Mrs Anna Maria Bennett 82
Flavius Josephus 80
Frances Burney 80
Lodovico Ariosto 78
Samuel Jackson Pratt 73
Geoffrey Chaucer 71
William Smellie 71
John Logan 70
Bryce Johnston 69
Robert Charles Dallas 69
John Payne 68
Patrick Colquhoun 65
Richard Cumberland 65
William Tooke 65
Mary Robinson 64
William Dodd 63
Thomas Mortimer 62
Elizabeth Hervey 61
Benjamin Franklin 60
Doctor Henry Hunter 60
Sarah Harriet Burney 60
Charlotte Turner Smith 59
Charles Thompson Traveller 56
Malcolm Laing 56
William Hunter 56
Comte Jean-François de Galaup La Pérouse 55
John Gillies 54
Dugald Stewart 53
Thomas Campbell 53
Thomas Gisborne 53
Robert McCulloch 51
Tobias George Smollett 51
John Evans 49
William Robertson 48
Joanna Baillie 46
Helen Maria Williams 45
Johann Caspar Lavater 43
Robert Bage 42
Amelia Alderson Opie 41
Adam Smith 38
Etienne François de Lantier 38
George Campbell 38
James Beattie 38
Reverend Augustus Toplady 37
Thomas Scott 37
William Roscoe 37
Mrs Elizabeth Inchbald 36
D.D. John Erskine 35
Joseph Moser 34
David Simpson 33
Edward Young 33
William Cowper 33
William Coxe 33
Bielby Porteus 32
Rev. John Bennett 32
Robert Bloomfield 32
William Roberts 32
Alexander Pope 31
Dr Samuel Johnson 31
James Macpherson 31
John Palmer Jun. 31
Karl Philipp Moritz 31
Michael Symes 31
Robert Southey 31
William Wilberforce 31
Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall 30
Auguste Heinrich Julius Lafontaine 29
Freiherr von Adolf Knigge 29
Charles John Ann Hereford 28
Sir Alexander Mackenzie 28
William Paley 28
Alexander Ranken 27
Charles François Philibert Masson 27
Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan 27
Sophia Fortnum 27
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon 26

Book Work

Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries [William Fordyce Mavor] 955
Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 521
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 345
Statistical Account of Scotland 308
Works of Robert Burns 236
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 235
Encyclopaedia Britannica 228
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797 223
History of Modern Europe 207
Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians 200
Scots Magazine 185
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 150
New Annual Register 126
Life of Samuel Johnson [James Boswell] 124
Mysteries of Udolpho 110
Sermons on Various Practical Subjects [John Young] 100
Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testament 96
History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies 89
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
Works of Laurence Sterne 87
Italian 85
Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China 80
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth 80
Works of Flavius Josephus 80
Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors 79
Orlando Furioso 78
Edward 77
Mordaunt 76
Observations Made in a Journey through the Western Counties of Scotland, in the Autumn of M.DCC.XCII 74
Bell's British Theatre 73
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
Percival, or Nature Vindicated 69
New and Complete System of Universal Geography 68
Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah 67
Henry [Richard Cumberland] 65
View of the Russian Empire during the Reign of Catharine the Second 65
Angelina; A Novel 64
Farmer's Magazine (Edinburgh, Scotland) 64
Memoirs of Modern Philosophers 63
British Plutarch 61
Belinda 60
Clarentine: A Novel 60
Paul and Virginia 60
Sisters; or, The History of Lucy & Caroline Sanson, Entrusted to a False Friend 60
Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin 59
Private Memoirs Relative to the Last Year of the Reign of Lewis the Sixteenth 57
Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis 57
Banished Man. A Novel 56
Church of St Siffrid 56
History of Scotland from the Union of the Crowns on the Accession of James VI to the Throne of England, to the Union of the Kingdoms in the Reign of Queen Anne 56
Travels in the year 1792 through France, Turkey, and Hungary, to Vienna 56
Travels through Turkey in Asia, the Holy Land, Arabia, Egypt and Other Parts of the World 56
History of Ancient Greece, its Colonies and Conquests 54
Voyage of La Pérouse round the World, in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, with the Nautical Tables 54
Pleasures of Hope 53
Lectures on the Prophecies of Isaiah 51
Douglas; or, The Highlander 50
Brief Sketch of the Several Denominations into which the Christian World is Divided 49
Anecdotes, Religious, Moral and Entertaining 47
Castle Rackrent, An Hibernian Tale 46
Plays on the Passions 46
History of England [Tobias Smollett] 43
Hermsprong; or, Man as He is Not 42
Journal during a Residence in France 42
Studies of Nature 42
Tour in Switzerland 42
Annals of the French Revolution; or, A Chronological Account of its Principal Events 41
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind 41
Family Secrets, Literary and Domestic 41
Father and Daughter, a Tale, in Prose: with an Epistle from the Maid of Corinth to her Lover; and Other Poetical Pieces 41
Medical Commentaries [Andrew Duncan] 41
History of America [William Robertson] 38
Travels of Antenor in Greece and Asia: from a Greek Manuscript found at Herculaneum 38
Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent 37
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect [Robert Burns] 37
Sermons and Essays [Augustus Toplady] 37
Sermons on Select Subjects [Thomas Scott] 37
Nature and Art 36
Sermons [Henry Hunter] 36
Discourses Preached on Several Occasions [John Erskine] 35
Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon 35
Turkish Tales 34
Life of Edmund Burke 33
Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole 33
Monthly Magazine and British Register 33
Plea for Religion, and the Sacred Writings 33
Poems [William Cowper] 33
Works of Edward Young 33
Farmer's Boy; A Rural Poem 32
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
Looker-on: A Periodical Paper 32
Sermons on Several Subjects [Beilby Porteus] 32
Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava 31

Book language

English 11865
French 108
Latin 47
German 26
Greek 9
Italian 5
Scots 3
Spanish 2
Arabic 1
Hebrew 1
Icelandic 1

Book place of publication

London 9106
Edinburgh 2094
Liverpool 244
Glasgow 213
Perth 176
Dublin 105
Paris 84
Bath 78
Oxford 75
New York 73
Philadelphia 59
Dundee 45
Macclesfield 33
Bristol 32
Leipzig 28
Montrose 25
York 22
Berlin 16
Göttingen 11
Cambridge 10
Newcastle 10
Calcutta 5
Norwich 5
Stockport 5
The Hague 5
Amsterdam 4
Cork 4
Padua 4
Birmingham 3
Clipstone 3
Frankfurt am Main 3
Hamburg 3
Kingston, Jamaica 3
Lausanne 3
Leiden 3
Manchester 3
Neuchâtel 3
Altenburg 2
Copenhagen 2
Halle 2
Hereford 2
Liverno 2
Madrid 2
Shrewsbury 2
St Andrews 2
Sudbury 2
Utrecht 2
Brentford 1
Canterbury 1
Carlisle 1
Derby 1
Dresden 1
Edinburgh? 1
Gloucester 1
Jena 1
Northumberland PA 1
Pisa 1
Prague 1
Salisbury 1
Siena 1
Verona 1
Züllichau 1

Book format

8vo 6716
12mo 2483
4to 1772
18mo 1022
16mo 67
folio 46

Genre

Travel 2346
History 2009
Fiction 1931
Periodicals 1355
Lives 957
Poetry 843
Sermons 815
Politics, Society and Political Economy 594
Theology 483
Belles Lettres 400
Natural Philosophy 332
Reference Works 249
Philosophy and Morality 220
Education 154
Drama 142
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 120
Medicine 115
Law 85
Fine Arts 27
Mathematics 16

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