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Library

Orkney Library 2646
Selkirk Library 2219
Westerkirk 1907
Royal High School of Edinburgh 1139
Haddington Library 782
Advocates Library 766
Leighton Library 664
Wigtown Subscription Library 652
Chambers' Circulating Library 302
Innerpeffray Library 177
Edinburgh University Library 75
Glasgow University Library 22
Craigston Castle Library 21
St Andrews University Library 17
Hunterian Museum Library 14
Dumfries Presbytery Library 1

Borrower title

Mr 3615
Reverend Mr 1133
Captain 529
Mrs 372
Dr 300
Lieutenant 184
Miss 165
Reverend 101
Reverend Dr 46
Sir 44
Major 21
Lady 20
Corporal 11
Sous Lieutenant 11
Brigadier General 10
Sous-Lieutenant 7
Colonel 5
Professor 5
Right Honourable 4
Honourable 3
Adjudant Major 2
Honourable Mrs 2
Madame 2
Mrs General 2
Principal 2
Provost 2
Lieutenant Colonel 1
Lord 1
Midshipman 1
Misses 1

Borrower gender

Male 10728
Female 649
Unknown 48
Unclear 1

Borrower occupation

Education 1545
Law 1279
School Child 1141
Religion and Clergy 967
Minister/Priest 942
Independent Means 919
Military 891
Church of Scotland 785
Advocate 760
Gentleman 574
Prisoner of War 473
Agricultural 449
Navy 379
Writer/Procurator 370
Medicine and Health 369
Farmer 352
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 346
Tenant 345
Arts and Letters 306
Politics/Office Holders 290
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 269
Author 260
Surgeon 238
Sheriff 231
University Student 204
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 167
Physician 130
Merchants/Traders 112
Customs Collector 105
Presbyterian Seceder 102
Notaries/Clerks 79
University Professor 79
MP (Britain) 75
School Master/Dominie 72
Tanner/Currier 69
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 67
Advocate Depute 64
Miscellaneous 61
Wife/Spouse 58
Mason/Miller 50
Teacher 50
Army 45
Dean of Faculty 45
Tax Collector 45
Unknown denomination 43
Lord Provost/Provost 42
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 38
Service Provision and Hospitality 38
Banker 33
Barrister 32
Mariner 29
Retailer/Shopkeeper 29
Poet 28
Writer to the Signet (WS) 28
Ships Owner 25
Factor/Agent 24
Watchmaker 23
Construction 21
Land Manager/Factor 19
Librarian 18
Surveyor 18
Clerk of Session 17
Accountant 16
Provost 15
Architect 13
Shoemaker 13
Solicitor-General 13
Grocer 11
Judge 11
Print and Book Trade 11
Booksellers 10
Innkeeper/Tavernkeeper 10
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 10
Lay Preacher 9
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 9
Baillie 8
Brewer 8
Clerks 8
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 7
Bookbinder 7
Distiller 7
Lord Advocate 7
Chaplain 6
Dyer 6
Engineer 6
Gardener 6
Officer 5
Painter/Limner 5
Curator 4
Lord Justice Clerk 4
Musician 4
Privateer 4
Baron of the Exchequer 3
Episcopalian 3
Lord President 3
Mill Owner 3
Publishers 3
Widow 3
Builder 2
Food Provision/Preparation 2

Author

Maria Edgeworth 427
David Brewster 399
Mrs Elizabeth Inchbald 358
Robert Forsyth 285
Sir Walter Scott 268
William Fordyce Mavor 244
Elizabeth Hamilton 216
William Robertson 155
William Russell 152
Anne Grant of Laggan 143
Frances Burney 134
Hannah More 130
John Witherspoon 119
D.D. George Lawson 101
Dr James Currie 101
Robert Burns 101
Jean-François Marmontel 93
Jane Porter 92
Dr Samuel Johnson 91
William Bingley 91
Malcolm Laing 81
Madame Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël 80
Richard Cumberland 75
James Meikle 74
William Tennant 67
Dieudonné Thiébault 61
Robert McCulloch 61
Nicholas Sloan 59
Thomas Robert Malthus 58
John Dick 57
John Marshall 57
William Cowper 56
James Thomson Minister at Quarrelwood 54
David Irving 51
Joanna Baillie 51
David Ramsay 50
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 50
James Carrick Moore 46
Thomas Skinner Surr 45
Doctor Henry Hunter 44
Dugald Stewart 43
James Brewster 43
Tobias George Smollett 43
Thomas Clarkson 42
William Hayley 42
Robert Henry 41
Sir Robert Thomas Wilson 41
John Bigland 40
Henry Mackenzie 39
James Grahame 39
Laurence Sterne 39
François Raimond Joseph de Pons 37
James Hogg 37
John Gillies 37
Thomas Shaw 37
Bryan Edwards 36
George Chalmers 36
Robert Bisset 36
Thomas Mortimer 36
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Prince de Bénévent 35
D.D. John Erskine 35
George Heriot Phillips 33
Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan 33
John Harriott 32
John Hawkesworth 32
Robert Southey 32
William Rutherford 31
Arthur Edmondston 30
Edmund Burke 30
Patrick Neill 30
Catherine Cuthbertson 29
Joseph Weber 29
Sophie Cottin 29
Carlo de Salvo 28
Alexander Ranken 27
Thomas MacGill 27
Sir John Carr 26
Baron Horatio Walpole 24
Hugh Blair 24
Sir Henry Moncrieff-Wellwood 24
James Macpherson 23
William Cobbett 23
Ely Bates 22
James Cririe 22
Robert Charles Dallas 22
Thomas Campbell 22
William Pitt Earl of Chatham 22
Adam Ferguson 21
Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke 21
John Richard Green 21
Hugh Murray 20
James Bruce 20
Joseph Strutt 20
David Hume 19
Johann Caspar Lavater 19
John Davis 19
Robert Couper 19
Royal College of Physicians of London 19
Thomas Edward Ritchie 19
William Keir 19

Book Work

Edinburgh Review, or, Critical Journal 886
Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 682
Quarterly Review 599
Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 499
British Theatre; or, a Collection of Plays ... acted at the Theatre Royal 358
Beauties of Scotland: Containing a ... Full Account of the Agriculture, Commerce, Mines, and Manufactures 279
Scots Magazine 185
Popular Tales [Maria Edgeworth] 180
Cottagers of Glenburnie 164
British Tourists; or, Traveller's Pocket Companion through England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland 155
History of Modern Europe 152
Coelebs in Search of a Wife 130
Tales of Fashionable Life 130
British Essayists 129
New Annual Register 126
Works of John Witherspoon 119
Works of Robert Burns 101
Letters from the Mountains 99
Eclectic Review 98
Works of the British poets 97
Works of William Robertson 94
Memoirs of Marmontel, Written by Himself 93
Thaddeus of Warsaw 92
Works of Samuel Johnson 91
Animal Biography; or, Authentic Anecdotes of the Lives, Manners and Economy, of the Animal Creation 90
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
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 81
Marmion; A Tale of Flodden Field 73
Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal 73
Lay of the Last Minstrel, a Poem 69
Indian Recreations 67
Lives of the Most Eminent British Naval Heroes 64
Universal History, Ancient and Modern; from the Earliest Records of Time, to the General Peace of 1801 64
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border 63
Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress 61
History of America [William Robertson] 61
Original Anecdotes of Frederick the Second, King of Prussia 61
Evelina, or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World 59
Leading Features of the Gospel Delineated 59
Essay on the Principle of Population 58
Lectures on Some Passages of the Acts of the Apostles 57
Life of George Washington [John Marshall] 57
Edinburgh Annual Register 56
Moral Tales for Young People 55
Corinna, or, Italy 54
Theological Discourses on Important Subjects, Doctrinal and Practical 54
Memoirs of the Life of Agrippina, the Wife of Germanicus 52
Lectures on the Prophecies of Isaiah 51
Lectures on the History of Joseph 50
Life of George Washington 50
Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 50
Plays on the Passions 47
Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in Spain, Commanded by Sir John Moore 46
Winter in London; or, Sketches of Fashion: A Novel 45
John De Lancaster. A Novel 44
Sermons [Henry Hunter] 44
Lectures upon Our Lord's Sermon on the Mount 43
Life and Posthumous Writings [chiefly Letters] of William Cowper 42
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind 41
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 41
History of the British Expedition to Egypt 41
History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament 41
Works of Laurence Sterne 39
History of England [Tobias Smollett] 38
Leonora 38
History of Ancient Greece, its Colonies and Conquests 37
Solitude Sweetened: or, Miscellaneous Meditations on Several Religious Subjects, Written in Distant Parts of the World 37
Traveller; or, Meditations on Various Subjects, Written on Board a Man-of-War 37
Travels in Parts of South America 37
Travels, or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant 37
British Plutarch 36
Caledonia: or, An Account, Historical and Topographic, of North Britain 36
History of the Reign of George III [Robert Bisset] 36
History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies 36
Memoirs of an American Lady 36
Discourses Preached on Several Occasions [John Erskine] 35
Memoirs of Charles Maurice Talleyrand de Périgord 35
Collection of Modern and Contemporary Voyages and Travels [George Heriot Phillips] 33
Monthly Magazine and British Register 33
Account of the Voyages undertaken by the Order of His present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere 32
Letters from England 32
Struggles through Life, Exemplified in the Various Travels and Adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, & America, of John Harriott 32
Ballads and Lyrical Pieces 31
View of Antient History 31
Memoirs of Richard Cumberland 30
Tour through some of the Island of Orkney and Shetland 30
View of the Ancient and Present State of the Zetland Islands 30
Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke 30
Memoirs of Maria Antoinetta, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of France and Navarre 29
Mountain Bard 29
The Works of Henry Mackenzie 29
Discourses on the Whole Book of Esther 28
Travels in the Year 1806, from Italy to England 28
History of France [Alexander Ranken] 27
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of George Buchanan 27
Travels in Turkey, Italy and Russia, during the Years 1803-1806 27
Delphine 26
Santo Sebastiano: or, The Young Protector 26
Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine 26
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres 24

Book language

English 11224
French 111
Latin 34
German 24
Italian 10
Greek 9
Gaelic 7
Icelandic 1
Spanish 1

Book place of publication

London 7190
Edinburgh 3886
Glasgow 96
Paris 95
Bath 64
Leith 64
Carlisle 59
Cupar-Fife 59
Paisley 55
Chichester 42
Hawick 38
Belfast 36
Doncaster 22
Leeds 17
Berlin 13
Göttingen 13
Leipzig 10
Philadelphia 7
Cambridge 6
Dublin 6
Gotha 5
Inverness 5
Newark 5
Hafod 4
Milan 4
Pwllpeiran 4
Calcutta 3
Hamburg 3
Lausanne 3
Liverpool 3
Utrecht 3
Amsterdam 2
Copenhagen 2
Florence 2
Gloucester 2
Hanover 2
Jena 2
Königsberg 2
Oxford 2
Aberdeen 1
Altenburg 1
Brunswick 1
Frankfurt am Main 1
Göttingen 1
Halle 1
Leiden 1
Madrid 1
Perth 1
Pisa 1
Pittsburgh 1
Siena 1
Stockholm 1
Strasbourg 1
Sunderland 1
Verona 1
Züllichau 1

Book format

8vo 6755
12mo 2341
4to 749
folio 409
16mo 114

Genre

Periodicals 2821
Fiction 1489
Lives 1139
Travel 1089
History 1077
Poetry 814
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 666
Belles Lettres 572
Theology 494
Reference Works 462
Drama 446
Sermons 416
Politics, Society and Political Economy 344
Philosophy and Morality 296
Natural Philosophy 221
Education 113
Medicine 50
Law 34
Fine Arts 14
Mathematics 11

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