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Library

Royal High School of Edinburgh 3660
Selkirk Library 2579
Westerkirk 2106
Leighton Library 1996
Advocates Library 1540
Edinburgh University Library 1025
St Andrews University Library 986
Glasgow University Library 933
Aberdeen Theological Library 860
Innerpeffray Library 449
Wigtown Subscription Library 422
Orkney Library 278
Haddington Library 226
Craigston Castle Library 97
Chambers' Circulating Library 30
Hunterian Museum Library 28
Dumfries Presbytery Library 20
Inverness Kirk Sessions Library 1

Borrower title

Mr 4094
Reverend Mr 1272
Dr 245
Mrs 229
Lieutenant 198
Captain 193
Sir 162
Miss 102
Reverend 99
Reverend Dr 48
Professor 40
Sous Lieutenant 20
Colonel 19
Midshipman 14
Rev. 12
Major 11
Corporal 10
Prof. 9
Right Honourable 9
Adjudant Major 8
Rev. Mr 7
Lady 6
Principal 5
Sous-Lieutenant 5
Brigadier General 4
Provost 3
Bishop 2
Lieutenant Colonel 2
Ensign 1
Lord 1
Rev Mr 1

Borrower gender

Male 16852
Female 367
Unknown 15
Unclear 5

Borrower occupation

Education 7410
School Child 3613
University Student 2950
Law 1838
Religion and Clergy 1455
Advocate 1444
Minister/Priest 1391
Church of Scotland 1186
University Professor 880
Military 691
Prisoner of War 590
Independent Means 508
Arts and Letters 471
Agricultural 433
Author 426
Tenant 341
Sheriff 340
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 287
Farmer 275
Medicine and Health 267
Surgeon 256
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 244
Writer/Procurator 233
Politics/Office Holders 231
Gentleman 221
Presbyterian Seceder 179
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 157
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 154
MP (Britain) 150
Notaries/Clerks 141
Dean of Faculty 112
Merchants/Traders 94
School Master/Dominie 84
Construction 77
Navy 70
Chaplain 62
Advocate Depute 60
Clerk of Session 55
Judge 54
Tanner/Currier 54
Banker 50
Architect 47
Lay Preacher 47
Teacher 45
Army 42
Baron of the Exchequer 35
Lord Advocate 31
Mason/Miller 31
Engineer 30
Customs Collector 29
Factor/Agent 28
Writer to the Signet (WS) 28
Clerks 27
Land Manager/Factor 26
Baillie 24
Miscellaneous 24
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 23
Lord President 23
Lord Provost/Provost 23
Barrister 22
Retailer/Shopkeeper 21
Poet 20
Print and Book Trade 20
Printers 20
Librarian 19
Solicitor-General 16
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 15
Widow 15
Curator 14
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 14
Dyer 12
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 12
Accountant 11
Mariner 9
Physician 9
Tutor 9
Wife/Spouse 9
Service Provision and Hospitality 8
Officer 7
Unknown denomination 7
Episcopalian 6
Provost 6
Surveyor 6
Watchmaker 6
Lord Justice Clerk 4
Grocer 3
Messenger-at-arms 3
Mill Owner 3
Painter/Limner 3
Privateer 3
Ships Captain 3
Ships Owner 3
Advocate’s Clerk 2
Booksellers 2
Brewer 2
Distiller 2
Druggist/Chemist/Apothecary 2
Elder 2
Publishers 2
Tax Collector 2

Author

Charles Rollin 851
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon 700
Robert Henry 475
Hugh Blair 391
Dr John Moore 360
Doctor Henry Hunter 356
James Cook 294
Dr Samuel Johnson 285
William Robertson 282
William Russell 264
Frances Burney 250
Constantin François de Chasseboeuf Comte de Volney 205
Edward Gibbon 191
Hugo Arnot 186
Robert Watson 183
Richard Watson Bishop of Llandaff 179
Vicesimus Knox 174
Henry Home Lord Kames 160
Henry Swinburne 160
Thomas Reid 157
William Coxe 149
Claude Étienne Savary 133
Gilbert Stuart 133
David Hume 130
Adam Ferguson 127
Henry Mackenzie 126
Voltaire 121
John Bell 120
John Gillies 118
Baron François Tott 117
Ambrose Serle 110
Oliver Goldsmith 110
Tobias George Smollett 103
Johann Lorenz Mosheim 101
John Campbell 101
Charlotte Turner Smith 99
James Boswell 98
Anders Sparrman 97
Benjamin Bell 92
Reverend David Lamont 92
Richard Cumberland 91
Sir David Dalrymple Lord Hailes 86
Samuel Richardson 84
Isabelle de Montolieu 83
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (France) 82
Royal Society of Edinburgh 80
James Beattie 78
John Newton 74
Comtesse Stéphanie Félicité Genlis 73
Friedrich Trenck Freiherr von der 73
Samuel Ancell 72
Elizabeth Keir 68
John Macgowan 68
Robert Lowth 68
Mrs Anna Maria Bennett 67
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 66
James Burnet Lord Monboddo 63
Nathaniel Lardner 59
Comte Antoine-François de Fourcroy 58
Thomas Newton Bishop of Bristol 58
George Keate 56
Thomas Parnell 56
Abbé Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal 55
Charles Johnstone 53
Eyles Irwin 53
William Cowper 53
William Cullen 52
Henry Fielding 50
Louis-Sébastien Mercier 50
Catherine Macaulay 49
Abbé Claude François Xavier Millot 48
Alexander Shanks 47
Humphrey Prideaux 45
John Hunter 45
Sophia Lee 45
Robert Burns 43
John Millar 42
Clara Reeve 41
Johann Georg Zimmermann 40
William Alexander 40
Pietro Metastasio 39
William Thomson 39
Jakob von Staehlin 38
Reverend Augustus Toplady 38
William Hayley 38
Richard Graves 37
William Paley 37
John Hawkesworth 33
John Smith 33
Joseph Towers 33
Richard Hurd 33
Thomas Percival 33
William Shakespeare 33
Colonel William Fullarton 32
Homer 31
James Riddoch 31
Robert Lindsay 31
Joseph White 30
Samuel Jackson Pratt 30
Adam Smith 28

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 694
Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 551
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World 506
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 475
Sacred Biography: or, The History of the Patriarchs from Adam to Abraham 356
Voyage to the Pacific Ocean 288
History of Modern Europe 264
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 259
Encyclopaedia Britannica 224
History of America [William Robertson] 211
View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany 211
Travels through Syria and Egypt, in the Years 1783, 1784, and 1785 205
Monthly Review. A Periodical Work, Giving an Account ... of, and Extracts from, the New Books, Pamphlets, &c. 199
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 191
Scots Magazine 185
Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress 179
History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain 158
View of Society and Manners in Italy 154
History of Edinburgh 150
Travels through Spain, in the Years 1775 and 1776 140
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres 132
Collection of Theological Tracts, in Six Volumes [Richard Watson] 128
History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic 126
New Annual Register 126
History of England [David Hume] 123
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark 122
Travels from St Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia 120
History of Ancient Greece, its Colonies and Conquests 118
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 115
Works of Samuel Johnson 115
Bell's British Theatre 110
Essays Moral and Literary 110
Sketches of the History of Man 109
Letters on Egypt [Claude Étienne Savary] 108
Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man 103
Memoirs of Baron de Tott. Containing the State of the Turkish Empire and the Crimea, during the Late War with Russia 103
Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle 99
Ecclesiastical History [Johann Lorenz Mosheim] 98
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 98
Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World 97
History of Scotland, from the Establishment of the Reformation, till the Death of Queen Mary 93
Sermons on the Most Prevalent Vices [David Lamont] 92
Vicar of Wakefield 91
Lives of the English Poets 90
Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays 89
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
History of Sir Charles Grandison 84
Caroline of Lichtfield; A Novel 83
System of Surgery [Benjamin Bell] 82
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 80
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres 75
Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 74
Horae Solitariae 73
Life of Baron Frederic Trenck 73
Evelina, or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World 71
Lounger 70
Infernal Conference, or Dialogues of Devils 68
Anna: or Memoirs of a Welch Heiress: Interspersed with Anecdotes of a Nabob 67
Don Quixote 66
Lives of the Admirals and Other Eminent British Seamen 61
Annals of Scotland [David Dalrymple] 60
Of the Origin and Progress of Language 58
Works of the Right Reverend Thomas Newton 58
Elements of Natural History and Chemistry 57
Poetical Works of Thomas Parnell 56
Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill 56
Evidences of the Christian Religion; Briefly and Plainly Stated 53
Series of Adventures in the Course of a Voyage up the Red-Sea 53
First Lines of the Practice of Physic, for the Use of Students in the University of Edinburgh 52
Isaiah. A New Translation; with a Preliminary Dissertation, and Notes Critical, Philological, and Explanatory 51
Account of the Pelew Islands 49
Journal of the Late and Important Blockade and Siege of Gibraltar 49
Mirror 49
Works of Nathaniel Lardner 49
Elements of General History 48
Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time to the Present 48
Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies 47
Salvation Through the Grace of our Saviour Displayed 47
Essays on the Active Powers of Man 46
History of England [Catherine Macaulay] 46
Masquerades; or, What You Will 46
Chrysal: or, The Adventures of a Guinea 45
Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations 45
Recess; or, A Tale of Other Times 45
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect [Robert Burns] 43
Cardiphonia: or, The Utterance of the Heart; in the Course of a Real Correspondence 42
Medical Commentaries [Andrew Duncan] 41
History of Women, from the Earliest Antiquity, to the Present Time 40
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
Works of Henry Fielding 39
Original Anecdotes of Peter the Great 38
Posthumous Works [Augustus Toplady] 38
Winter Evenings: or Lucubrations on Life and Letters 38
Christian Remembrancer 37
Columella; or, The Distressed Anchoret 37
Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy 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

Book language

English 16263
French 684
Latin 177
Italian 66
Greek 33
German 22
Spanish 21
Hebrew 12
Icelandic 5
Gaelic 1
Russian 1
Saami 1

Book place of publication

London 12870
Edinburgh 3009
Paris 478
Cambridge 166
Perth 145
Dublin 90
Oxford 75
Geneva 55
Aberdeen 49
Bath 42
Warrington 38
Glasgow 36
The Hague 36
Amsterdam 35
Kehl 34
Leipzig 32
Neuchâtel 26
Liverpool 23
Berlin 22
York 21
Madrid 20
Birmingham 18
Dumfries 17
Stirling 17
Stockholm 14
Göttingen 13
Shrewsbury 12
Copenhagen 10
St Petersburg 10
Philadelphia 9
Strasbourg 9
Florence 8
Venice 8
Vienna 8
Newcastle upon Tyne 6
Rotterdam 6
Exeter 5
Leiden 5
i.e. Amsterdam? 5
Maastricht 4
Mannheim 4
Naples 4
Rome 4
Winchester 4
Calcutta 3
Grenoble 3
Reading 3
Twickenham 3
Zweibrücken 3
Altona 2
Canterbury 2
Dessau 2
Dresden 2
Eton 2
Gotha 2
Lille 2
Liège 2
Paisley 2
Salisbury 2
Siena 2
Strabane 2
Turin 2
Valencia 2
Altenburg 1
Bern 1
Bouillon 1
Caen 1
Chambéry 1
Copenhagen? 1
Frankfurt am Main 1
Greifswald 1
Halle 1
Heidelberg 1
Holland 1
Jena 1
Kilmarnock 1
Lichfield 1
Marseille 1
Pisa 1
Prague 1
Rouen 1
Trondheim 1
Verona 1
Warsaw 1
Warwick 1
Yverdon 1
Zurich 1
i.e. Paris? 1

Book format

8vo 10823
4to 2968
12mo 2473
folio 755
18mo 132
16mo 21
24mo 3
unknown 2
score 1

Genre

History 4147
Travel 2665
Fiction 1686
Periodicals 1667
Theology 1402
Natural Philosophy 1127
Belles Lettres 1115
Sermons 1036
Lives 812
Poetry 587
Philosophy and Morality 522
Medicine 506
Politics, Society and Political Economy 455
Reference Works 302
Drama 297
Law 287
Education 253
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 108
Fine Arts 55
Mathematics 38

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