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Library

Royal High School of Edinburgh 1953
Selkirk Library 1817
Advocates Library 1368
St Andrews University Library 1107
Orkney Library 1015
Glasgow University Library 850
Haddington Library 697
Westerkirk 681
Leighton Library 496
Wigtown Subscription Library 404
Edinburgh University Library 300
Dumfries Presbytery Library 273
Innerpeffray Library 259
Chambers' Circulating Library 248
Aberdeen Theological Library 73
Craigston Castle Library 57
Hunterian Museum Library 24
Inverness Kirk Sessions Library 1

Borrower title

Mr 3419
Reverend Mr 603
Captain 291
Dr 171
Lieutenant 137
Reverend 92
Sir 73
Professor 57
Reverend Dr 47
Corporal 19
Colonel 16
Major 16
Principal 13
Brigadier General 10
Sous Lieutenant 8
Adjudant Major 6
Bishop 5
Staff Sergeant 5
Mrs 4
Rev. 4
Sous-Lieutenant 4
Lady 3
Honourable 2
General 1
Miss 1
Ms 1
Professor Sir 1
Provost 1
Right Honourable 1

Borrower gender

Male 11623
Female 14
Unknown 4

Borrower occupation

Education 4494
School Child 1936
University Student 1934
Law 1634
Advocate 1323
Religion and Clergy 1192
Minister/Priest 1150
Church of Scotland 1039
University Professor 626
Military 620
Independent Means 513
Prisoner of War 437
Agricultural 387
Arts and Letters 383
Tenant 331
Sheriff 292
Gentleman 260
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 253
Author 250
Farmer 233
Politics/Office Holders 218
Medicine and Health 192
Writer/Procurator 192
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 183
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 178
Surgeon 160
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 156
Navy 126
MP (Britain) 108
Merchants/Traders 105
Poet 82
Dean of Faculty 72
School Master/Dominie 70
Teacher 69
Service Provision and Hospitality 68
Writer to the Signet (WS) 64
Advocate Depute 62
Chaplain 60
Customs Collector 59
Presbyterian Seceder 58
Army 54
Tanner/Currier 54
Notaries/Clerks 52
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 50
Librarian 45
Clerk of Session 44
Barrister 42
Lord Advocate 39
Judge 38
Brewer 31
Physician 31
Banker 25
Accountant 24
Print and Book Trade 23
Grocer 20
Lay Preacher 20
Lord President 20
Episcopalian 19
Retailer/Shopkeeper 19
Solicitor-General 19
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 18
Construction 18
Baron of the Exchequer 17
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 17
Unknown denomination 17
Engineer 16
Land Manager/Factor 16
Lord Provost/Provost 16
Mariner 16
Provost 16
Tax Collector 16
Booksellers 15
Domestic Service 15
Indoor Servants 15
Bookbinder 14
Curator 14
Ships Owner 14
Officer 13
Watchmaker 13
Mason/Miller 12
Factor/Agent 11
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 11
Clerks 10
Dyer 10
Advocate’s Clerk 9
Surveyor 9
Printers 8
Innkeeper/Tavernkeeper 7
Mill Owner 6
Victualler 6
Clerk 5
Tutor 4
Glover 3
Lord Justice Clerk 3
Shoemaker 3
Architect 2
Cooper 2
Distiller 2
Food Provision/Preparation 2
Gardener 2

Author

Plutarch 1142
John Campbell 441
Pierre Mathurin de L'Ecluse des Loges 387
Dr James Currie 383
Robert Burns 383
Patrick Abercromby 299
Thomas Mortimer 273
James Boswell 220
Gilbert Burnet 215
Sir Walter Scott 165
Thomas McCrie 165
Dr Samuel Johnson 155
Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield 146
George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton 136
Conyers Middleton 127
Sir William Temple 121
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 107
Washington Irving 98
Archibald Bower 97
Tobias George Smollett 95
Anne Grant of Laggan 94
Jean-François Marmontel 93
John Knox 92
Captain Thomas Pococke 85
Pierre Bayle 82
Thomas Stanley 81
William Melmoth 81
Marcus Tullius Cicero 79
William Hayley 79
William Cowper 74
Friedrich Trenck Freiherr von der 73
Benjamin Franklin 72
Robert Southey 71
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 69
George Mackenzie 68
David Irving 67
Edmund Ludlow 67
Walter Harte 65
Maximilien Bethune Duc de Sully 64
Dieudonné Thiébault 61
Marcus Aurelius Emperor of Rome 61
Edward Gibbon 59
Julius Caesar 58
Thomas Newton Bishop of Bristol 58
Marquis Antoine François Bertrand de Moleville 57
John Marshall 55
Elizabeth Hamilton 53
Pliny the Younger 53
Suetonius 52
William Roscoe 52
Anna Seward 51
John Gibson Lockhart 50
Giovanni Paolo Marana 49
William Harris 48
Xenophon of Athens 48
David Ramsay 46
Robert Chambers 44
Cardinal Jean François Paul de Gondi de Retz 43
John Galt 41
Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon 39
Chevalier Andrew Michael Ramsay 38
Jakob von Staehlin 38
William Coxe 38
Diogenes Laertius 37
Pope Clement XIV 37
James Anderson 36
Joseph Towers 36
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Prince de Bénévent 35
David Mallet 35
Dugald Stewart 35
Marquise Marie-Louise-Victoire La Rochejaquelein 34
Frederick II King of Prussia 33
Sir James Melville 33
Baron Edward Herbert of Cherbury 32
Philip Doddridge 32
Robert Bisset 32
John Lambert 31
Robert Drury 31
Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall 31
William Wallace 31
Thomas Lediard 30
Vicomte Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne Turenne 30
Alexander Gordon 29
Joseph Weber 29
Reginald Heber 29
Colley Cibber 28
David Hume 28
Hester Lynch Piozzi 28
Richard Cumberland 28
Amelia Heber 27
Charles François Philibert Masson 27
John Hill 27
Michael Russell 27
Baron Horatio Walpole 25
Eugène François Vidocq 25
Jacobus Gronovius 25
Lucy Aikin 25
Marquis François Barbé-Marbois 25
Henry Glassford Bell 24
Louis-Ellies Du Pin 24

Book Work

Lives [Plutarch] 812
Lives of the Admirals and Other Eminent British Seamen 403
Memoirs of Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully 387
Works of Robert Burns 383
Martial Atchievements of the Scots Nation 299
British Plutarch 271
Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time 174
Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French 161
Life of Samuel Johnson [James Boswell] 137
Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope 132
History of the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero 127
Biographia Britannica: or, the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons who have Flourished in Great Britain and Ireland 119
Works of Sir William Temple 111
Lives of the English Poets 106
History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus 98
History of the Popes, from the Foundation of the See of Rome, to the Present Time 97
Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett 95
Letters from the Mountains 94
Memoirs of Marmontel, Written by Himself 93
Life of John Knox ... To which is Subjoined an Appendix Consisting of Letters 92
History of the Life of King Henry the Second 89
Journal of a Soldier of the Seventy-First, or Glasgow Regiment Highland Light Infantry, from 1806 to 1815 85
Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli 83
History of Philosophy [Thomas Stanley] 81
Life of Baron Frederic Trenck 73
Life and Posthumous Writings [chiefly Letters] of William Cowper 71
Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Writers of the Scots Nation 68
Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin 68
Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow Esq 67
Historical and Critical Dictionary 66
History of the Life of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden 65
Lives of the Most Eminent British Naval Heroes 63
Life of Nelson 62
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius 61
Original Anecdotes of Frederick the Second, King of Prussia 61
Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon 59
Works of the Right Reverend Thomas Newton 58
Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 57
Private Memoirs Relative to the Last Year of the Reign of Lewis the Sixteenth 57
Life of George Washington [John Marshall] 54
Letters of Sir Thomas Fitzosborne, on Several Subjects 53
Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the Great 52
Memoirs of the Life of Agrippina, the Wife of Germanicus 50
Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 50
Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy 49
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte 48
Life of George Washington 46
Masquerades; or, What You Will 46
Memorable Things of Socrates 44
Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz 43
Works of George Lord Lyttelton 42
Epistles of Pliny the Younger 41
Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon 39
History of Henri de La Tour D'Auvergne, Viscount de Turenne, Marshal-General of France 38
Lives of the British Admirals: Containing a New and Accurate Naval History 38
Original Anecdotes of Peter the Great 38
Interesting Letters of Pope Clement XIV 37
Life of Andrew Melville 37
Collections Relating to the History of Mary Queen of Scotland 36
De Vita et Moribus Philosophorum 36
History of Napoleon Bonaparte 36
Letters of Anna Seward written between the Years 1784 and 1807 36
Life of John Knox 36
Memoirs of the Life and Reign of Frederick the Third, King of Prussia 36
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of George Buchanan 36
Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent 35
Memoirs of Charles Maurice Talleyrand de Périgord 35
Memoirs of the Marchioness de la Rochejaquelein 34
Memoirs of Sir James Melville 33
Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole 33
Posthumous Works of Frederick II King of Prussia 33
Life of Edmund Burke 32
Remarkable Passages in the Life of the Honourable Colonel James Gardiner 32
History of the Life and Reign of George the Fourth 31
Lives of the Scotish Poets 31
Memoirs of the Empress Josephine 31
Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar 31
Travels through Canada, and the United States of North America, in the years 1806, 1807, & 1808 31
Twelve Caesars 31
Life of John, Duke of Marlborough, Prince of the Roman Empire 30
Lives of Illustrious & Distinguished Scotsmen 30
Military Memoirs and Maxims of Marshal Turenne 30
History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia 29
Life of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Written by Himself 29
Memoirs of Maria Antoinetta, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of France and Navarre 29
Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero to Several of his Friends: with Remarks by William Melmoth 28
Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. During the Last Twenty Years of His Life 27
Life of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England 27
Life of Lord Byron 27
Life of Oliver Cromwell 27
Life of Reginald Heber ... With Selections from his Correspondence 27
Memoirs of Richard Cumberland 27
Secret Memoirs of the Court of Petersburg 27
Memoirs of the Courts of Berlin, Dresden, Warsaw, and Vienna, in the Years 1777, 1778, and 1779 26
Account of the Life and Writings of William Robertson 25
Letters of the Marchioness of Pompadour 25
Memoirs of Vidocq, Principal Agent of the French Police until 1827 25
Thesaurus Graecarum Antiquitatum, in quo Continentur Effigies Virorum ac Foeminarum Illustrium 25
History of a Woman of Quality: or, The Adventures of Lady Frail 24
Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford 24

Book language

English 10569
Latin 436
French 296
Greek 79
Italian 23
German 7
Spanish 2
Icelandic 1

Book place of publication

London 7413
Edinburgh 2341
Liverpool 266
Glasgow 177
Paris 157
Leiden 100
Amsterdam 94
Oxford 81
Perth 75
Leith 63
Dublin 56
Bath 54
Chichester 42
Dundee 40
The Hague 31
Aberdeen 30
Belfast 30
York 30
Geneva 24
Frankfurt am Main 21
Venice 21
Utrecht 18
Basel 16
Antwerp 15
Newcastle 15
Delft 14
Leipzig 13
Vevey 13
Rotterdam 10
Birmingham 8
Kincardine 8
Lyon 8
Cambridge 7
Lauingen 7
Strawberry Hill 7
Bologna 6
Rome 6
Berlin 5
i.e. Amsterdam? 5
Hamburg 4
Milan 4
Twickenham 4
Edinburgh? 3
Franecker 3
Brussels 2
Chiswick 2
Cologne 2
Copenhagen 2
Hafod 2
Heidelberg 2
Lille 2
Livorno 2
Liège 2
Manchester 2
Netherlands 2
Nuremberg 2
Philadelphia 2
Rouen 2
Salisbury 2
Wesel 2
Zurich 2
Bern 1
Brescia 1
Bristol 1
Burgos 1
Caen 1
Chambéry 1
Copenhagen? 1
Dresden 1
Exeter 1
Florence 1
Göttingen 1
Halle 1
Holland 1
Ingolstadt 1
Ironbridge 1
Kehl 1
Königsberg 1
Leeds 1
Lynn 1
Madrid 1
Pisa 1
Sunderland 1
Tübingen 1
Udine 1
Warsaw 1
Weimar 1
unknown 1

Book format

8vo 6485
12mo 2065
4to 1245
folio 918
18mo 59
16mo 19
24mo 1

Genre

Lives 11623
History 1668
Belles Lettres 543
Poetry 507
Travel 298
Fiction 221
Theology 198
Philosophy and Morality 192
Politics, Society and Political Economy 192
Law 53
Reference Works 42
Fine Arts 30
Sermons 18
Education 16
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 15
Periodicals 14
Drama 10
Medicine 8
Natural Philosophy 6

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