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Library

Selkirk Library 3771
Westerkirk 2878
Royal High School of Edinburgh 1966
Leighton Library 1074
Advocates Library 1071
Orkney Library 429
Wigtown Subscription Library 298
Innerpeffray Library 225
Aberdeen Theological Library 215
Edinburgh University Library 198
Chambers' Circulating Library 147
Glasgow University Library 71
St Andrews University Library 62
Haddington Library 58
Craigston Castle Library 37
Dumfries Presbytery Library 12
Hunterian Museum Library 12

Borrower title

Mr 3911
Reverend Mr 1116
Lieutenant 271
Mrs 239
Captain 221
Miss 121
Dr 86
Reverend 76
Sir 75
Reverend Dr 60
Colonel 44
Sous Lieutenant 17
Corporal 16
Midshipman 13
Lady 11
Brigadier General 9
Professor 9
Prof. 8
Right Honourable 8
Sous-Lieutenant 8
Adjudant Major 6
Lieutenant Colonel 5
Rev. 4
Lord 3
Major 3
Madame 2
Principal 2
Ensign 1
Honourable 1
Honourable Mrs 1
Rev. Mr 1

Borrower gender

Male 12114
Female 396
Unknown 6
Unclear 1

Borrower occupation

Education 2680
School Child 1954
Law 1401
Advocate 1014
Military 970
Prisoner of War 865
Religion and Clergy 854
Minister/Priest 835
Church of Scotland 682
Agricultural 589
University Student 518
Tenant 491
Independent Means 484
Farmer 377
Arts and Letters 301
Medicine and Health 287
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 285
Surgeon 277
Author 276
Writer/Procurator 272
Sheriff 217
Politics/Office Holders 208
Gentleman 199
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 175
University Professor 157
MP (Britain) 139
Presbyterian Seceder 136
Notaries/Clerks 108
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 96
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 91
Army 67
School Master/Dominie 65
Tanner/Currier 63
Dean of Faculty 62
Advocate Depute 57
Navy 56
Construction 48
Merchants/Traders 46
Writer to the Signet (WS) 43
Mason/Miller 40
Clerk of Session 39
Barrister 34
Miscellaneous 34
Architect 33
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 31
Wife/Spouse 31
Lord Advocate 27
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 24
Judge 23
Banker 22
Customs Collector 22
Poet 19
Factor/Agent 18
Accountant 17
Surveyor 17
Lay Preacher 16
Lord Provost/Provost 16
Teacher 16
Land Manager/Factor 13
Mariner 12
Baillie 11
Clerks 11
Engineer 11
Solicitor-General 11
Print and Book Trade 10
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 9
Baron of the Exchequer 9
Dyer 9
Physician 9
Booksellers 8
Chaplain 8
Librarian 8
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 8
Tax Collector 8
Unknown denomination 7
Episcopalian 6
Ships Owner 6
Curator 5
Lord President 5
Officer 5
Publishers 5
Service Provision and Hospitality 5
Builder 4
Bookbinder 3
Mill Owner 3
Printers 3
Privateer 3
Retailer/Shopkeeper 3
Ships Captain 3
Tutor 3
Widow 3
Advocate’s Clerk 2
Brewer 2
Distiller 2
Lord Justice Clerk 2
Messenger-at-arms 2
Druggist/Chemist/Apothecary 1
Elder 1
Gardener 1
Grocer 1

Author

William Fordyce Mavor 968
Doctor Henry Hunter 416
Sir John Sinclair 308
Ann Radcliffe 295
Edward Gibbon 268
Hugh Blair 254
Tobias George Smollett 244
Robert Henry 243
William Russell 221
Charles Rollin 200
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy 197
David Hume 149
Charlotte Turner Smith 133
William Coxe 133
Dr John Moore 125
Flavius Josephus 106
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 104
Henry Brooke 103
William Robertson 103
John Young 101
James Bruce 98
Joseph Hall 96
Robert Heron 93
William Dodd 90
Bryan Edwards 86
Donald Campbell 86
Joseph Townsend 84
Richard Cumberland 84
John Logan 82
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 82
Mrs Anna Maria Bennett 82
Frances Burney 80
Mary Pilkington 78
Samuel Jackson Pratt 73
William Paley 72
Geoffrey Chaucer 71
James Boswell 71
William Smellie 71
Bryce Johnston 69
John Payne 68
Elizabeth Hamilton 67
Mary Robinson 64
Elizabeth Hervey 61
Thomas Mortimer 61
Sarah Harriet Burney 60
James Macpherson 59
Marquis Antoine François Bertrand de Moleville 57
Charles Thompson Traveller 56
William Hunter 56
Comte Jean-François de Galaup La Pérouse 55
Robert McCulloch 51
Adam Smith 49
John Evans 49
Johann Lorenz Mosheim 48
François Le Vaillant 47
Joanna Baillie 46
Louis-Pierre Anquetil 46
Helen Maria Williams 45
James Thomson Minister at Quarrelwood 44
Johann Caspar Lavater 43
Dugald Stewart 42
Thomas Pennant 42
John Gillies 40
Mrs Elizabeth Inchbald 39
James Beattie 38
Thomas Gisborne 38
Archibald Alison 37
Reverend Augustus Toplady 37
Robert Burns 37
Thomas Scott 37
Oliver Goldsmith 35
Patrick Colquhoun 35
Joseph Moser 34
David Simpson 33
Edward Young 33
Bielby Porteus 32
Rev. John Bennett 32
Virgil 32
William Roberts 32
Alexander Pope 31
John Palmer Jun. 31
Karl Philipp Moritz 31
William Wilberforce 31
Charles John Ann Hereford 30
Auguste Heinrich Julius Lafontaine 29
Freiherr von Adolf Knigge 29
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon 28
Johann Georg Zimmermann 28
Sir David Dalrymple Lord Hailes 28
Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan 27
Pierre Marie François Pagès 27
Sophia Fortnum 27
William Marshall 27
Baron Jean-Baptiste-Barthélemy Lesseps 26
Robert Southey 26
Thomas Somerville 26
William Combe 26
Captain D. Williams 25
D.D. John Erskine 25
George Vancouver 25

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 520
Sacred Biography: or, The History of the Patriarchs from Adam to Abraham 356
Statistical Account of Scotland 308
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 243
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 235
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 233
Encyclopaedia Britannica 222
Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians 200
Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece 196
Scots Magazine 185
History of England [Tobias Smollett] 180
History of Modern Europe 152
History of England [David Hume] 137
New Annual Register 126
Mysteries of Udolpho 110
Works of Flavius Josephus 106
Fool of Quality, or, The History of Henry Earl of Moreland 103
Sermons on Various Practical Subjects [John Young] 100
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark 99
Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testament 96
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile [James Bruce] 91
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies 86
Italian 85
Don Quixote 82
Romance of the Forest 82
Sermons [John Logan] 82
Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China 80
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth 80
Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors 79
Delia, a Pathetic and Interesting Tale 78
Edward 77
Elegant Epistles; or, A Copious Collection of Familiar and Amusing Letters 77
Journey through Spain in the Years 1786 and 1787 75
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
Commentary on the Revelation of St John 69
History of Ancient Europe 69
Journey over Land to India 69
New and Complete System of Universal Geography 68
Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah 67
Henry [Richard Cumberland] 65
Angelina; A Novel 64
British Plutarch 61
Clarentine: A Novel 60
Paul and Virginia 60
Sisters; or, The History of Lucy & Caroline Sanson, Entrusted to a False Friend 60
Poems of Ossian 59
Private Memoirs Relative to the Last Year of the Reign of Lewis the Sixteenth 57
Banished Man. A Novel 56
Church of St Siffrid 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
Voyage of La Pérouse round the World, in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, with the Nautical Tables 54
Lectures on the Prophecies of Isaiah 51
Adventures of Roderick Random 49
Brief Sketch of the Several Denominations into which the Christian World is Divided 49
Ecclesiastical History, Antient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Present Century 48
Memoirs of the Court of France, during the Reign of Lewis XIV. and the Regency of the Duke of Orleans 46
Plays on the Passions 46
Denial; or, The Happy Retreat 44
Desmond. A Novel 44
Studies of Nature 43
Travels from the Cape of Good-Hope, into the Interior Parts of Africa 43
Journal during a Residence in France 42
Tour in Switzerland 42
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind 41
Family Secrets, Literary and Domestic 41
Medical Commentaries [Andrew Duncan] 41
History of Ancient Greece, its Colonies and Conquests 40
Life of Samuel Johnson [James Boswell] 39
Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India 38
Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste 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
Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon 35
Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis 35
Turkish Tales 34
Companion. Being a Choice cCllection of the Most Admired Pieces from the Best Authors 33
Curiosities of Literature 33
History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and King James VI 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
Works of Edward Young 33
Gleanings through Wales, Holland and Westphalia ... To which is added Humanity; or The Rights of Nature. A Poem 32
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 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
Desmond 31
Haunted Cavern: A Caledonian Tale 31
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 31

Book language

English 12302
French 127
Latin 53
German 23
Italian 15
Greek 5
Scots 3
Spanish 2
Hebrew 1
Icelandic 1

Book place of publication

London 9596
Edinburgh 2502
Glasgow 183
Perth 181
Dublin 100
Paris 96
Oxford 80
New York 68
York 47
Macclesfield 33
Bristol 26
Leipzig 25
Montrose 25
Aberdeen 23
Liverpool 19
Birmingham 14
Berlin 12
Göttingen 11
Newcastle 10
Stockholm 10
Boston 9
Cambridge 9
Amsterdam 8
Venice 6
Bath 5
Naples 5
Norwich 5
The Hague 5
Burlington 4
Calcutta 4
Cork 4
Lausanne 4
Madrid 4
Philadelphia 4
Strasbourg 4
Frankfurt am Main 3
Kingston, Jamaica 3
Leiden 3
Neuchâtel 3
Newark 3
Altenburg 2
Hamburg 2
Hereford 2
Liverno 2
Shrewsbury 2
St Andrews 2
Sudbury 2
Utrecht 2
Canterbury 1
Carlisle 1
Copenhagen 1
Derby 1
Dresden 1
Gloucester 1
Halle 1
Jena 1
London? 1
Lynn 1
Manchester 1
Pisa 1
Prague 1
Salisbury 1
Sherborne 1
Siena 1
Turin 1
Verona 1
Züllichau 1
i.e. Paris? 1

Book format

8vo 6918
12mo 2882
4to 1711
18mo 977
folio 80
16mo 34
14mo 1
score 1

Genre

Travel 2480
Fiction 2225
History 2038
Periodicals 1314
Sermons 1115
Theology 931
Politics, Society and Political Economy 590
Lives 523
Poetry 496
Belles Lettres 447
Natural Philosophy 347
Philosophy and Morality 266
Reference Works 244
Drama 145
Education 119
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 118
Medicine 105
Law 104
Fine Arts 32
Mathematics 15

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