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Library

Selkirk Library 1823
Royal High School of Edinburgh 1404
Westerkirk 964
Leighton Library 795
Advocates Library 554
Innerpeffray Library 216
Orkney Library 132
Aberdeen Theological Library 122
Wigtown Subscription Library 101
Edinburgh University Library 94
Chambers' Circulating Library 93
Glasgow University Library 30
Haddington Library 26
Craigston Castle Library 23
St Andrews University Library 18
Hunterian Museum Library 7

Borrower title

Mr 2052
Reverend Mr 641
Lieutenant 138
Mrs 98
Captain 89
Miss 63
Sir 52
Reverend 50
Dr 44
Reverend Dr 34
Colonel 22
Corporal 10
Right Honourable 8
Sous Lieutenant 6
Adjudant Major 5
Lady 5
Professor 5
Sous-Lieutenant 5
Lieutenant Colonel 4
Prof. 4
Lord 3
Brigadier General 2
Principal 2
Rev. 2
Honourable 1
Honourable Mrs 1
Madame 1
Major 1
Midshipman 1

Borrower gender

Male 6210
Female 181
Unknown 4
Unclear 1

Borrower occupation

Education 1778
School Child 1397
Law 737
Advocate 525
Religion and Clergy 484
Minister/Priest 478
Military 422
Prisoner of War 379
Church of Scotland 376
University Student 279
Agricultural 271
Independent Means 236
Tenant 231
Arts and Letters 186
Author 178
Farmer 170
Medicine and Health 169
Surgeon 164
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 148
Writer/Procurator 141
Sheriff 115
Politics/Office Holders 105
Presbyterian Seceder 92
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 90
Gentleman 88
University Professor 76
MP (Britain) 70
Notaries/Clerks 69
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 49
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 44
Construction 39
Dean of Faculty 38
Advocate Depute 32
Army 32
Tanner/Currier 31
Architect 30
School Master/Dominie 29
Barrister 25
Merchants/Traders 25
Miscellaneous 22
Wife/Spouse 22
Clerk of Session 18
Mason/Miller 17
Writer to the Signet (WS) 17
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 15
Banker 14
Customs Collector 13
Lord Advocate 13
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 13
Judge 12
Baillie 11
Clerks 11
Factor/Agent 11
Navy 11
Poet 11
Lord Provost/Provost 10
Teacher 10
Accountant 9
Dyer 9
Engineer 7
Mariner 7
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 7
Solicitor-General 7
Lay Preacher 6
Print and Book Trade 6
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 5
Booksellers 5
Chaplain 5
Land Manager/Factor 4
Officer 4
Physician 4
Publishers 4
Service Provision and Hospitality 4
Surveyor 4
Mill Owner 3
Ships Captain 3
Tutor 3
Baron of the Exchequer 2
Brewer 2
Builder 2
Lord President 2
Privateer 2
Ships Owner 2
Unknown denomination 2
Bookbinder 1
Curator 1
Distiller 1
Druggist/Chemist/Apothecary 1
Episcopalian 1
Grocer 1
Librarian 1
Lord Justice Clerk 1
Printers 1
Retailer/Shopkeeper 1
Watchmaker 1

Author

William Fordyce Mavor 968
Sir John Sinclair 308
Hugh Blair 235
Edward Gibbon 185
William Russell 152
John Young 100
Joseph Hall 96
Ann Radcliffe 85
Frances Burney 80
Mrs Anna Maria Bennett 79
Dr John Moore 77
William Smellie 71
John Payne 68
Elizabeth Hamilton 67
Mary Robinson 64
Elizabeth Hervey 61
Sarah Harriet Burney 60
William Dodd 60
Bryan Edwards 58
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
Joanna Baillie 46
Helen Maria Williams 44
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 43
Dugald Stewart 41
Samuel Jackson Pratt 41
Thomas Scott 37
Mrs Elizabeth Inchbald 36
Patrick Colquhoun 35
David Simpson 33
Edward Young 33
William Coxe 33
William Roberts 32
James Macpherson 31
John Palmer Jun. 31
William Wilberforce 31
Auguste Heinrich Julius Lafontaine 29
Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan 27
Sophia Fortnum 27
William Robertson 27
Robert Southey 26
D.D. John Erskine 25
George Vancouver 25
Baron Horatio Walpole 24
Doctor Henry Hunter 24
Johann Caspar Lavater 24
John Fell 24
Susan Nicklin 23
Arrian of Nicomedia 19
John Owen 19
Royal College of Physicians of London 19
John Watkins 18
Donald Campbell 17
George Campbell 17
Jean-Baptiste Cant Hanet de Cléry 17
Johann Beckmann 17
John Pinkerton 17
Adam Smith 16
James Pettit Andrews 16
Sir David Dalrymple Lord Hailes 16
John Robison 15
Thomas Somerville 15
James Denholm 14
Graf von Benjamin Rumford 13
William Marshall 13
Vicesimus Knox 12
David Hume 12
Georg Forster 12
Thomas Gisborne 12
William Thomson 12
Charles Roworth 11
Robert Bisset 11
Livy 10
Ralph Beilby 10
Robert Heron 10
Thomas Bewick 10
August von Kotzebue 9
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon 9
James Beattie 9
André Everard Van Braam Houckgeest 8
Benjamin Thompson Count Rumford 8
Edward Cooke 8
François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon Archibishop of Cambrai 8
Tobias George Smollett 8
William Gilpin 8
Académie royale des sciences et belles lettres (Berlin, Germany) 7
Christoph Martin Wieland 7
James Hervey 7
John Horne Tooke 7
Linnean Society of London 7
William Mitford 7
William Paley 7
William Godwin 6
Alexander Pope 5
Marcus Tullius Cicero 5
Mrs Carver 5
Peter Pindar John Wolcot 5

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 497
Statistical Account of Scotland 308
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 235
Encyclopaedia Britannica 222
Scots Magazine 185
History of Modern Europe 152
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 150
New Annual Register 126
Sermons on Various Practical Subjects [John Young] 100
Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testament 96
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
Italian 85
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
Edward 77
Bell's British Theatre 73
Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal 73
Philosophy of Natural History 71
New and Complete System of Universal Geography 68
Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah 67
Angelina; A Novel 64
Clarentine: A Novel 60
Sisters; or, The History of Lucy & Caroline Sanson, Entrusted to a False Friend 60
History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies 58
Private Memoirs Relative to the Last Year of the Reign of Lewis the Sixteenth 57
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
Plays on the Passions 46
Studies of Nature 42
Tour in Switzerland 42
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind 41
Family Secrets, Literary and Domestic 41
Sermons on Select Subjects [Thomas Scott] 37
Nature and Art 36
Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon 35
Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis 35
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
Looker-on: A Periodical Paper 32
Haunted Cavern: A Caledonian Tale 31
Poems of Ossian 31
Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians 31
Parliamentary Register; or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons 30
Clara Duplessis, and Clairant: the History of a Family of French Emigrants 29
History of America [William Robertson] 27
Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph 27
Waldorf; or, the Dangers of Philosophy 27
Arabian Nights Entertainments 25
Discourses Preached on Several Occasions [John Erskine] 25
Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World 25
Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind 24
Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity 24
Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford 24
Address to a Young Lady on Her Entrance into the World 23
Vaurien: or, Sketches of the Times 21
Letters Written during a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal 20
Medical Transactions, Published by the College of Physicians in London 19
Travels into Different Parts of Europe, in the Years 1791 and 1792 19
Voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates 19
Peeper; A Collection of Essays, Moral, Biographical, and Literary 18
Dissertation on Miracles: Containing an Examination of the Principles Advanced by David Hume 17
History of Inventions and Discoveries 17
Journal of Occurrences at the Temple, during the Confinement of Louis XVI, King of France 17
Narrative of the Extraordinary Adventures, and Sufferings of Donald Campbell, Esq. of Barbreck 17
Annals of Scotland [David Dalrymple] 16
History of Great Britain, from the Death of Henry VIII to the Accession of James VI of Scotland to the Crown of England. Being a Continuation of Dr Henry's History of Great Britain 16
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 16
Analytical Review 15
History of Scotland from the Accession of the House of Stuart to that of Mary 15
Hstory of Great Britain during the Reign of Queen Anne 15
Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, carried on in the Secret Meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati, and Reading Societies 15
English Review, or An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature 14
Historical Account and Topographical Description of the City of Glasgow and Suburbs 14
British Nepos; or, Youth's Mirror 13
Experimental Essays, Political, Economical, and Philososphical 13
Christian Philosophy: or, An Attempt to Display, by Internal Testimony, the Evidence and Excellence of Revealed Religion 12
Commentaries on the Law of Scotland, Respecting the Description and Punishment of Crimes 12
Journey from Bengal to England 12
Letters from Scandinavia, on the Past and Present State of the Northern Nations of Europe 12
New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature 12
Art of Defence on Foot with the Broad Sword and Sabre 11
Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex 11
Life of Edmund Burke 11
Spirit of the Public Journals 11
British Critic 10
History of British Birds 10
History of Rome [Livy] 10
Natural History, General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon 9
Poems on Several Occasions [James Beattie] 9
Stranger: a Comedy 9
Arguments For and Against an Union, between Great Britain and Ireland 8
Authentic Account of the Embassy of the Dutch East-India Company, to the Court of the Emperor of China, in the Years 1794 and 1795 8
Essays, Political, Economical, and Philosophical 8

Book language

English 6293
French 64
Latin 25
German 15
Italian 3
Greek 2
Icelandic 1
Spanish 1

Book place of publication

London 4947
Edinburgh 1466
Glasgow 173
New York 68
Paris 40
Macclesfield 33
Dublin 28
Bristol 26
Montrose 25
Leipzig 18
Berlin 11
Newcastle 10
Göttingen 9
Perth 8
Cambridge 7
The Hague 5
Calcutta 4
Cork 4
Amsterdam 3
Birmingham 3
Kingston, Jamaica 3
Lausanne 3
Neuchâtel 3
Philadelphia 3
Bath 2
Hamburg 2
Hereford 2
St Andrews 2
Sudbury 2
Utrecht 2
Canterbury 1
Copenhagen 1
Derby 1
Frankfurt am Main 1
Halle 1
Leiden 1
Madrid 1
Oxford 1
Pisa 1
Salisbury 1
Siena 1
Verona 1
York 1
Züllichau 1

Book format

8vo 3592
12mo 1070
18mo 955
4to 850
folio 23

Genre

Travel 1408
Periodicals 1183
Fiction 931
History 606
Sermons 473
Politics, Society and Political Economy 464
Natural Philosophy 282
Theology 251
Lives 237
Reference Works 233
Drama 134
Poetry 122
Belles Lettres 119
Philosophy and Morality 106
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 64
Law 54
Education 49
Medicine 36
Fine Arts 14
Mathematics 11

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