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Library

Advocates Library 11178
Glasgow University Library 578
Orkney Library 389
Chambers' Circulating Library 36
Edinburgh University Library 3
Craigston Castle Library 2

Borrower title

Mr 11083
Sir 520
Dr 65
Honourable 20
Right Honourable 14
Professor 6
Reverend Mr 4
Captain 2
Lord 1

Borrower gender

Male 12186

Borrower occupation

Advocate 12186
Law 12186
Sheriff 2460
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 1926
Education 1494
Arts and Letters 1276
University Professor 1195
Politics/Office Holders 1034
University Student 872
Author 848
MP (Britain) 801
Dean of Faculty 609
Advocate Depute 602
Independent Means 570
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 476
Clerk of Session 340
Barrister 330
Lord Advocate 317
Judge 303
Medicine and Health 302
Surgeon 297
Poet 257
Curator 228
Clerks 226
Solicitor-General 179
Baron of the Exchequer 167
Lord President 158
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 140
Writer to the Signet (WS) 133
Minister/Priest 104
Religion and Clergy 104
Notaries/Clerks 95
Gentleman 94
Advocate’s Clerk 92
Accountant 79
Church of Scotland 70
Lord Justice Clerk 61
Banker 57
Military 49
Writer/Procurator 45
Officer 40
Episcopalian 28
Brewer 26
Service Provision and Hospitality 26
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 23
Supporting Activities 9
Magistrate 7
Librarian 6
Druggist/Chemist/Apothecary 5
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 5
Print and Book Trade 5
Publishers 5
Customs Collector 4
Factor/Agent 4
Army 3
Lord Provost/Provost 3
Secretary of State 3
Chaplain 1
Presbyterian Seceder 1

Author

Sir Walter Scott 160
Voltaire 53
Court of King's Bench Great Britain 45
Marcus Tullius Cicero 40
William Coxe 40
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon 39
Dr Samuel Johnson 39
Robert Southey 37
William Robertson 36
David Hume 35
John Galt 35
Tobias George Smollett 35
Maria Edgeworth 34
Charles Rollin 32
Edward Gibbon 30
Aristotle 28
John Pinkerton 28
Oliver Goldsmith 28
Royal Society (Great Britain) 28
Henry Home Lord Kames 27
Sir Geoffrey Gilbert 26
William Cobbett 26
Charles Viner 25
Conyers Middleton 25
Demosthenes 25
James Bruce 25
William Hawkins 25
William Maitland 25
Francis Bacon 24
Herodotus 24
John Selden 24
Sir John Sinclair 24
Washington Irving 24
Baron Horatio Walpole 23
Comtesse Stéphanie Félicité Genlis 23
Homer 23
James Burrow 23
Matthew Bacon 23
Sir Matthew Hale 23
Thomas Pennant 23
Adam Smith 22
Gilbert Burnet 22
Linnaeus 22
Pliny the Younger 22
Court of Chancery Great Britain 21
Samuel Richardson 21
Sir Isaac Newton 21
William Shakespeare 21
Christoph Martin Wieland 20
George Gordon Byron Lord Byron 20
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 20
John Bell 20
John Gibson Lockhart 20
Robert Henry 20
Daniel Defoe 19
Edward Daniel Clarke 19
Friedrich Schiller 19
James Hogg 19
Jean Froissart 19
John Hawkesworth 19
Madame Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël 19
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus 19
Robert Brady 19
Sir William Blackstone 19
Arthur Young 18
Dr John Moore 18
Henry St John Viscount Bolingbroke 18
James Boswell 18
Robert Orme 18
William Hayley 18
François Gayot de Pitaval 17
Gilbert Stuart 17
James Macpherson 17
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 17
John Locke 17
John Wilson 'Christopher North' 17
Muḥammad Qāsim Hindū Shāh Astarābādī Firishtah 17
Plutarch 17
Robert Watson 17
William Wordsworth 17
Amelia Alderson Opie 16
Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon 16
Horace Walpole 16
John Malcolm 16
John Millar 16
John Milton 16
John Strype 16
Maximilien Bethune Duc de Sully 16
Sir David Dalrymple Lord Hailes 16
Thomas Madox 16
Bishop George Berkeley 15
Edmund Burke 15
George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton 15
James Anderson 15
James Ferguson 15
Joannes Georgius Graevius 15
John Evelyn 15
John Knox 15
John Whitaker 15
Lodovico Ariosto 15

ESTC

N472050 37
P1945 32
P1963 32
P6614 27
T213203 27
T147413 26
T147414 26
T137938 25
T148948 25
T145688 23
T97747 23
T149673 22
N17852 21
T93697 20
T100092 18
T150199 17
T74467 16
T83967 15
T91573 15
N25884 14
P2120 14
T107637 14
T139262 14
T144270 14
T51608 14
T179700 13
T187517 13
T71143 13
T145745 12
T48434 12
T78970 12
T96013 12
N16395 11
P1968 11
R12446 11
T125960 11
T127047 11
T134381 11
T145645 11
T145935 11
T154193 11
T77047 11
T97844 11
T98193 11
N471226 10
T107803 10
T111967 10
T132173 10
T133960 10
T139208 10
T144542 10
T146096 10
T59483 10
T71736 10
T82472 10
T82751 10
T96378 10
N19415 9
N35479 9
T101742 9
T105262 9
T106050 9
T107045 9
T117422 9
T123769 9
T133957 9
T135745 9
T141222 9
T155479 9
T89845 9
T91569 9
T96069 9
T96525 9
T97359 9
N30340 8
N5833 8
S102544 8
S117424 8
T111040 8
T113273 8
T126587 8
T132034 8
T136145 8
T136789 8
T136952 8
T143317 8
T144688 8
T144737 8
T145505 8
T145811 8
T147493 8
T44778 8
T55286 8
T55301 8
T58028 8
T78961 8
T79279 8
T79288 8
T79696 8
T83079 8

Book language

English 8288
French 1488
Latin 1395
Greek 250
Italian 175
German 104
Spanish 48
Anglo-Saxon 9
Arabic 9
Scots 7
Icelandic 4
Hebrew 3
Romance languages 3
Welsh 3
Urdu 2
Dutch 1
Irish 1
Russian 1

Book place of publication

London 6743
Edinburgh 1407
Paris 1013
Amsterdam 290
Oxford 172
Geneva 151
Leiden 142
Leipzig 111
Venice 89
The Hague 81
Glasgow 77
Cambridge 72
Dublin 72
Lyon 71
Frankfurt am Main 67
Berlin 43
Utrecht 40
Madrid 34
Basel 33
Copenhagen 29
Kehl 26
Aldershot 25
Cologne 25
Florence 24
Antwerp 23
Milan 20
Rotterdam 20
York 19
Rome 17
Göttingen 16
Rouen 16
Hamburg 15
Birmingham 14
Halle 14
Neuchâtel 14
Strasbourg 14
Perth 13
Brussels 12
Liège 12
Stockholm 12
Stuttgart 12
Bristol 11
Lausanne 11
Bath 10
Hanover 10
Leeuwarden 10
Padua 10
Louvain 9
Manchester 9
Cleves 8
Gotha 8
Naples 8
New York 8
Westminster 8
Lauingen 7
St Petersburg 7
Zurich 7
Bologna 6
Calcutta 6
Dresden 6
Gloucester 6
Philadelphia 6
Vienna 6
Warrington 6
Chester 5
Leith 5
Tübingen 5
Verona 5
Aberdeen 4
Chichester 4
Franecker 4
Hafod 4
Heidelberg 4
Helmstedt 4
Jena 4
Mannheim 4
Newark 4
Newcastle upon Tyne 4
Nuremberg 4
Parma 4
Pwllpeiran 4
Wittenberg 4
i.e. Paris? 4
Altenburg 3
Arnhem 3
Bern 3
Bourges 3
Edinburgh? 3
Leeds 3
Maastricht 3
Mainz 3
Nijmegen 3
Turin 3
Twickenham 3
Altdorf 2
Altona 2
Anvers 2
Belfast 2
Brescia 2
Caen 2

Book format

8vo 5178
4to 2939
folio 1830
12mo 1398
18mo 14
16mo 8
manuscript 4

Genre

History 2597
Travel 1546
Law 1508
Lives 1350
Fiction 1010
Belles Lettres 851
Poetry 711
Politics, Society and Political Economy 686
Natural Philosophy 672
Theology 536
Philosophy and Morality 501
Periodicals 419
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 383
Drama 243
Reference Works 215
Education 197
Medicine 187
Fine Arts 146
Mathematics 93
Sermons 76
Miscellaneous/Other 1

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