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Library

Royal High School of Edinburgh 2296
Selkirk Library 1578
Westerkirk 1327
Leighton Library 1023
Advocates Library 944
Glasgow University Library 874
St Andrews University Library 777
Innerpeffray Library 692
Edinburgh University Library 624
Aberdeen Theological Library 380
Haddington Library 311
Wigtown Subscription Library 198
Orkney Library 139
Craigston Castle Library 89
Hunterian Museum Library 35
Dumfries Presbytery Library 18
Chambers' Circulating Library 8
Inverness Kirk Sessions Library 1

Borrower title

Mr 2384
Reverend Mr 681
Dr 172
Captain 132
Mrs 129
Lieutenant 113
Sir 99
Reverend 81
Miss 56
Professor 44
Reverend Dr 26
Midshipman 16
Colonel 13
Sous Lieutenant 13
Right Honourable 9
Corporal 8
Major 7
Prof. 6
Lady 5
Principal 5
Sous-Lieutenant 5
Rev. 4
Misses 2
Rev. Mr 2
Bishop 1
Brigadier General 1
Honourable 1
Lieutenant Colonel 1
Lord 1

Borrower gender

Male 11062
Female 229
Unknown 12
Unclear 8

Borrower occupation

Education 5021
School Child 2255
University Student 2026
Law 1099
Advocate 893
Religion and Clergy 861
Minister/Priest 806
University Professor 787
Church of Scotland 687
Military 469
Prisoner of War 394
Agricultural 298
Independent Means 291
Arts and Letters 247
Tenant 237
Sheriff 231
Author 211
Farmer 191
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 177
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 154
Medicine and Health 141
Politics/Office Holders 137
Surgeon 136
Writer/Procurator 122
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 116
Gentleman 114
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 99
MP (Britain) 98
Presbyterian Seceder 98
Merchants/Traders 80
Dean of Faculty 77
School Master/Dominie 67
Chaplain 63
Notaries/Clerks 63
Navy 55
Construction 47
Advocate Depute 43
Judge 41
Teacher 40
Clerk of Session 37
Lay Preacher 37
Army 28
Lord Advocate 28
Miscellaneous 28
Banker 26
Architect 25
Dyer 24
Writer to the Signet (WS) 23
Baron of the Exchequer 22
Engineer 22
Print and Book Trade 21
Printers 21
Librarian 20
Customs Collector 17
Service Provision and Hospitality 17
Barrister 16
Mason/Miller 16
Land Manager/Factor 15
Tanner/Currier 15
Widow 14
Wife/Spouse 14
Clerks 13
Factor/Agent 13
Lord Provost/Provost 13
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 13
Lord President 12
Poet 12
Solicitor-General 11
Baillie 10
Grocer 10
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 10
Retailer/Shopkeeper 10
Curator 9
Officer 9
Provost 9
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 9
Accountant 8
Episcopalian 8
Watchmaker 8
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 6
Mariner 6
Brewer 5
Physician 5
Lord Justice Clerk 3
Mill Owner 3
Publishers 3
Ships Captain 3
Tutor 3
Unknown denomination 3
Advocate’s Clerk 2
Booksellers 2
Gardener 2
Innkeeper/Tavernkeeper 2
Messenger-at-arms 2
Privateer 2
Active Service/Soldiers 1
Clerk 1
Painter/Limner 1
Secretary of State 1
Ships Owner 1

Author

Charles Rollin 851
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon 690
William Robertson 446
Dr John Moore 294
Hugh Blair 263
Robert Watson 251
Robert Henry 243
Edward Gibbon 205
Thomas Mortimer 164
Ralph Erskine 153
Hugo Arnot 143
Thomas Pennant 141
David Hume 133
Abbé Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal 132
Henry Mackenzie 130
James Beattie 120
Dr Samuel Johnson 103
Oliver Goldsmith 102
Adam Smith 101
John Campbell 101
Sir David Dalrymple Lord Hailes 98
Reverend David Lamont 92
George Campbell 87
Samuel Richardson 84
Henry Home Lord Kames 83
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (France) 82
Joseph Addison 82
Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall 81
Sir Richard Steele 81
Jean-François Marmontel 78
Voltaire 75
Ambrose Serle 73
Vicesimus Knox 72
Frances Burney 71
John Newton 71
James Burnet Lord Monboddo 63
Georg Forster 61
Thomas Harmer 60
Thomas Parnell 56
Robert Lowth 54
Eyles Irwin 51
William Russell 51
Abbé Claude François Xavier Millot 49
Homer 49
Catherine Macaulay 46
Humphrey Prideaux 45
George Anson Baron Anson 43
Gilbert Stuart 40
Clara Reeve 39
Johann Georg Zimmermann 39
Pietro Metastasio 39
Samuel Jackson Pratt 39
George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton 38
Reverend Augustus Toplady 38
Richard Graves 38
Anton de Haen 37
James Ferguson 37
Pope Clement XIV 37
William Alexander 37
Andrew Gray 33
Henry Brooke 32
John Hawkesworth 32
William Nimmo 32
Richard Chandler 31
Robert Lindsay 31
Comtesse Stéphanie Félicité Genlis 30
George Ridpath 30
John Smith 30
William Shakespeare 30
Tobias George Smollett 29
William Cowper 29
James Burrow 28
Henry Swinburne 27
Johann David Michaelis 27
William Coxe 27
James Thomson 26
Pons Augustin Alletz 26
Richard Hurd 26
Robert Walker 26
Geoffrey Chaucer 24
Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire 24
John Rickman 23
Laurence Sterne 23
Sir William Blackstone 22
Soame Jenyns 22
Jacob Bryant 21
Luís de Camões 20
Richard Watson Bishop of Llandaff 20
John Millar 19
John Pinkerton 19
Royal College of Physicians of London 19
Thomas Warton 19
Jonathan Carver 18
William Lothian 18
Alexander Pope 17
Hannah More 17
Thomas Scott 17
Andrew Wight 16
Antoine Guénée 16
Francis Carter 16

Book Work

Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians 851
Natural History, General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon 684
Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 546
History of America [William Robertson] 427
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 263
History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain 251
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 243
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 205
Monthly Review. A Periodical Work, Giving an Account ... of, and Extracts from, the New Books, Pamphlets, &c. 199
Scots Magazine 185
British Plutarch 162
View of Society and Manners in Italy 154
Sermons, and Other Practical Works [Ralph Erskine] 153
View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany 145
History of Edinburgh 143
Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies 127
New Annual Register 126
Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides; MDCCLXXII 125
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 115
Bell's British Theatre 110
History of England [David Hume] 105
Essays [James Beattie] 99
Sermons on the Most Prevalent Vices [David Lamont] 92
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 90
Lives of the English Poets 90
Vicar of Wakefield 89
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
Philosophy of Rhetoric 87
History of Sir Charles Grandison 84
Memoirs of the Kings of France, of the Race of Valois 81
Spectator 81
Julia de Roubigné 80
Annals of Scotland [David Dalrymple] 78
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres 75
Horae Solitariae 73
Evelina, or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World 71
Incas: or, The Destruction of the Empire of Peru 68
Lives of the Admirals and Other Eminent British Seamen 61
Voyage Round the World, in His Britannic Majesty's Sloop, Resolution 61
Observations on Divers Passages of Scripture 60
Of the Origin and Progress of Language 58
Poetical Works of Thomas Parnell 56
Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill 56
History of Modern Europe 51
Isaiah. A New Translation; with a Preliminary Dissertation, and Notes Critical, Philological, and Explanatory 51
Series of Adventures in the Course of a Voyage up the Red-Sea 51
Mirror 49
Elements of General History 48
Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time to the Present 48
Essays Moral and Literary 46
History of England [Catherine Macaulay] 46
Masquerades; or, What You Will 46
Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations 45
Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV 43
Cardiphonia: or, The Utterance of the Heart; in the Course of a Real Correspondence 42
Medical Commentaries [Andrew Duncan] 41
Lives of the British Admirals: Containing a New and Accurate Naval History 40
Old English Baron: A Gothic Story 39
Poesie del Signor Abate Pietro Metastasio 39
Posthumous Works [Augustus Toplady] 38
Columella; or, The Distressed Anchoret 37
History of Women, from the Earliest Antiquity, to the Present Time 37
Interesting Letters of Pope Clement XIV 37
Ratio Medendi in Nosocomio Practico Vindobonensi 37
Solitude; or The Effect of Occasional Retirement on the Mind, the Heart, General Society, in Exile, in Old Age, and on the Bed of Death 37
Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Optics 36
Tour in Scotland, MDCCLXIX 36
Works of George Lord Lyttelton 36
Delineation of the Parables of Our Blessed Saviour 33
Fool of Quality, or, The History of Henry Earl of Moreland 32
General History of Stirlingshire 32
Iliad 32
Mirror [Edinburgh] 32
History of Scotland from 1436 to 1565 [Robert Lindsay] 31
Border-History of England and Scotland, Deduced from the Earliest Times to the Union of the Two Crowns 30
Emma Corbett; or, The Miseries of Civil War 30
Galic Antiquities: Consisting of a History of the Druids 30
Medical Observations and Inquiries 30
Parliamentary Register; or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons 30
Theatre of Education. Translated from the French of the Countess de Genlis 30
History of the Russian Empire under Peter the Great 29
Olney Hymns 29
Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, since the Death of Lord Raymond 28
Age of Louis XIV 27
Travels through Spain, in the Years 1775 and 1776 27
Expedition of Humphry Clinker 26
History of Ancient Greece, from the Earliest Times, till it became a Roman Province 26
Liberal Education: or, A Practical Treatise on the Methods of Acquiring Useful and Polite Learning 26
Plays of William Shakespeare 26
Scotch Preacher: or, A Collection of Sermons, by Some of the Most Eminent Clergymen of the Church of Scotland 26
Sermons on Practical Subjects [Robert Walker] 26
Introductory Lectures to the Sacred Book of the New Testament 25
Almoran and Hamet, An Oriental Tale 24
Canterbury Tales 24
Sylph; A Novel 24
Works of James Thomson 24
Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, on Discovery 23
Loose Hints upon Education, Chiefly Concerning the Culture of the Heart 22
View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion 22
Gentleman Farmer. Being an Attempt to Improve Agiculture, by Subjecting it to the Test of Rational Principles 21

Book language

English 10564
French 515
Latin 166
Italian 55
Greek 34
Spanish 17
German 5
Icelandic 2
Saami 1

Book place of publication

London 8333
Edinburgh 1964
Paris 365
Glasgow 172
Dublin 123
Oxford 101
Vienna 43
Chester 42
Warrington 40
Bath 37
The Hague 36
Berwick 30
Neuchâtel 29
Cambridge 26
Leipzig 24
Amsterdam 21
Geneva 16
Madrid 16
Newcastle 15
Stockholm 14
Berlin 13
Liège 13
Newcastle upon Tyne 13
Naples 12
Shrewsbury 12
St Petersburg 12
Göttingen 11
Florence 8
Philadelphia 7
York 7
Rotterdam 6
Birmingham 5
i.e. Amsterdam? 5
Dumfries 4
Rome 4
Copenhagen 3
Grenoble 3
Norwich 3
Twickenham 3
Altona 2
Canterbury 2
Dijon 2
Eton 2
Fribourg 2
Halle 2
Leiden 2
Lille 2
Valencia 2
Altenburg 1
Bern 1
Copenhagen? 1
Dresden 1
Frankfurt am Main 1
Jena 1
Lausanne 1
Leeuwarden 1
Maastricht 1
Perth 1
Prague 1
Siena 1
Strasbourg 1
Trondheim 1
Turin 1
Venice 1
Yverdon 1
i.e. Paris? 1

Book format

8vo 7074
4to 2266
12mo 1638
folio 211
18mo 130
16mo 18
unknown 2
24mo 1

Genre

History 3596
Periodicals 1613
Travel 973
Natural Philosophy 955
Belles Lettres 745
Fiction 719
Sermons 707
Lives 640
Theology 610
Poetry 462
Philosophy and Morality 294
Medicine 272
Politics, Society and Political Economy 243
Drama 225
Law 189
Education 152
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 99
Reference Works 78
Fine Arts 32
Mathematics 22

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