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Library

Selkirk Library 3137
Leighton Library 2268
Westerkirk 2152
Royal High School of Edinburgh 2108
Advocates Library 1475
Edinburgh University Library 859
Aberdeen Theological Library 691
St Andrews University Library 578
Glasgow University Library 493
Orkney Library 417
Wigtown Subscription Library 411
Innerpeffray Library 312
Haddington Library 153
Craigston Castle Library 80
Chambers' Circulating Library 66
Dumfries Presbytery Library 19
Hunterian Museum Library 16

Borrower title

Mr 4419
Reverend Mr 1540
Lieutenant 238
Mrs 236
Dr 228
Captain 215
Sir 156
Miss 134
Reverend 80
Reverend Dr 55
Colonel 26
Sous Lieutenant 20
Professor 18
Corporal 13
Prof. 13
Major 12
Rev. 12
Brigadier General 11
Lady 11
Midshipman 11
Adjudant Major 8
Right Honourable 8
Principal 5
Rev. Mr 5
Sous-Lieutenant 4
Provost 3
Ensign 2
Lieutenant Colonel 2
Bishop 1
Madame 1

Borrower gender

Male 14819
Female 405
Unknown 9
Unclear 2

Borrower occupation

Education 4790
University Student 2178
School Child 2092
Law 1825
Religion and Clergy 1537
Minister/Priest 1477
Advocate 1376
Church of Scotland 1235
Military 873
Prisoner of War 779
Independent Means 569
Arts and Letters 524
Agricultural 509
Author 491
University Professor 489
Tenant 406
Farmer 329
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 329
Medicine and Health 321
Surgeon 307
Sheriff 306
Writer/Procurator 283
Gentleman 240
Politics/Office Holders 229
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 210
Presbyterian Seceder 210
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 164
Notaries/Clerks 147
MP (Britain) 141
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 137
Dean of Faculty 109
School Master/Dominie 82
Merchants/Traders 81
Construction 78
Tanner/Currier 69
Advocate Depute 60
Navy 57
Architect 55
Army 53
Clerk of Session 53
Lay Preacher 51
Judge 43
Banker 39
Teacher 33
Writer to the Signet (WS) 30
Baron of the Exchequer 26
Barrister 26
Factor/Agent 26
Mason/Miller 25
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 24
Clerks 24
Land Manager/Factor 24
Baillie 23
Chaplain 23
Customs Collector 23
Engineer 23
Lord Advocate 21
Lord Provost/Provost 21
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 21
Lord President 19
Miscellaneous 18
Poet 18
Surveyor 18
Retailer/Shopkeeper 16
Tutor 16
Accountant 15
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 15
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 15
Unknown denomination 15
Wife/Spouse 14
Physician 12
Librarian 11
Mariner 11
Print and Book Trade 11
Curator 10
Dyer 10
Printers 10
Solicitor-General 10
Tax Collector 9
Service Provision and Hospitality 8
Officer 7
Episcopalian 6
Privateer 4
Ships Owner 4
Watchmaker 4
Widow 4
Advocate’s Clerk 3
Distiller 3
Elder 3
Lord Justice Clerk 3
Messenger-at-arms 3
Mill Owner 3
Provost 3
Ships Captain 3
Bishop 2
Booksellers 2
Brewer 2
Druggist/Chemist/Apothecary 2
Gardener 2
Grocer 2

Author

Robert Henry 475
Edward Gibbon 416
Hugh Blair 395
Doctor Henry Hunter 356
Sir John Sinclair 316
James Cook 293
Dr John Moore 291
Tobias George Smollett 274
Charlotte Turner Smith 252
William Coxe 245
Constantin François de Chasseboeuf Comte de Volney 208
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy 208
Richard Watson Bishop of Llandaff 202
Dr Samuel Johnson 187
William Russell 181
Richard Cumberland 163
John Gillies 161
Thomas Reid 157
David Hume 156
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 146
James Boswell 138
Henry Swinburne 134
Claude Étienne Savary 133
Adam Ferguson 131
John Bell 121
Baron François Tott 117
Henry Home Lord Kames 111
Ambrose Serle 110
Henry Brooke 103
Anders Sparrman 101
George Campbell 99
James Beattie 99
Vicesimus Knox 98
James Bruce 98
William Robertson 95
Ann Radcliffe 84
Joseph Townsend 84
Isabelle de Montolieu 83
Benjamin Bell 82
William Paley 81
Royal Society of Edinburgh 80
Mary Pilkington 78
Henry Mackenzie 77
Comte Antoine-François de Fourcroy 74
Friedrich Trenck Freiherr von der 73
Samuel Ancell 72
William Smellie 71
Elizabeth Keir 68
John Macgowan 68
Mrs Anna Maria Bennett 67
James Burnet Lord Monboddo 60
Voltaire 57
William Cullen 55
George Keate 52
Robert McCulloch 51
Louis-Pierre Anquetil 50
Louis-Sébastien Mercier 50
Adam Smith 49
Nathaniel Lardner 49
Johann Lorenz Mosheim 48
Alexander Shanks 47
François Le Vaillant 46
Catherine Macaulay 45
Charles Johnstone 45
Sophia Lee 45
James Thomson Minister at Quarrelwood 44
Comtesse Stéphanie Félicité Genlis 43
Hugo Arnot 43
John Hunter 43
Oliver Goldsmith 43
Robert Burns 43
Anna Maria Mackenzie 41
Dugald Stewart 41
Thomas Pennant 40
William Thomson 40
Henry Fielding 39
Pietro Metastasio 39
Jakob von Staehlin 38
Archibald Alison 37
Joseph Addison 36
Frederick II King of Prussia 35
Gilbert Stuart 35
Hester Lynch Piozzi 34
Joseph Towers 33
Thomas Percival 33
Colonel William Fullarton 32
William Combe 32
William Marshall 32
Baron Jean-François Bourgoing 31
James Macpherson 31
Thomas Newton Bishop of Bristol 31
Virgil 31
Joseph White 30
Abbé Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal 29
Andrew Fyfe 29
Robert Watson 29
Thomas Anburey 29
Alexander Cunningham 28
Johann Georg Zimmermann 28
Richard Hurd 28

Book Work

New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World 506
Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 502
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 475
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 416
Sacred Biography: or, The History of the Patriarchs from Adam to Abraham 356
Statistical Account of Scotland 308
Voyage to the Pacific Ocean 288
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 244
Zeluco 225
Encyclopaedia Britannica 222
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark 221
Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece 207
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
Scots Magazine 185
History of Modern Europe 181
History of Ancient Greece, its Colonies and Conquests 158
History of England [David Hume] 155
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres 151
Collection of Theological Tracts, in Six Volumes [Richard Watson] 150
Don Quixote 146
History of England [Tobias Smollett] 144
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 130
History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic 126
New Annual Register 126
Travels from St Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia 120
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 115
Works of Samuel Johnson 115
Travels through Spain, in the Years 1775 and 1776 113
Letters on Egypt [Claude Étienne Savary] 108
Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man 103
Fool of Quality, or, The History of Henry Earl of Moreland 103
Memoirs of Baron de Tott. Containing the State of the Turkish Empire and the Crimea, during the Late War with Russia 103
Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World 101
Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle 99
Four Gospels, Translated from the Greek 99
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile [James Bruce] 91
Sketches of the History of Man 90
Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays 89
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
Caroline of Lichtfield; A Novel 83
Romance of the Forest 82
System of Surgery [Benjamin Bell] 82
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 80
Delia, a Pathetic and Interesting Tale 78
Ethelinde, or The Recluse of the Lake 78
Elegant Epistles; or, A Copious Collection of Familiar and Amusing Letters 77
Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal 77
Journey through Spain in the Years 1786 and 1787 75
Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 74
Elements of Natural History and Chemistry 73
Horae Solitariae 73
Life of Baron Frederic Trenck 73
Philosophy of Natural History 71
Lounger 70
Infernal Conference, or Dialogues of Devils 68
Anna: or Memoirs of a Welch Heiress: Interspersed with Anecdotes of a Nabob 67
View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany 66
Essays Moral and Literary 60
Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy 59
Of the Origin and Progress of Language 58
Arundel 57
Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill 56
Evidences of the Christian Religion; Briefly and Plainly Stated 53
Account of the Pelew Islands 52
First Lines of the Practice of Physic, for the Use of Students in the University of Edinburgh 52
Lectures on the Prophecies of Isaiah 51
Adventures of Roderick Random 49
Journal of the Late and Important Blockade and Siege of Gibraltar 49
Works of Nathaniel Lardner 49
Ecclesiastical History, Antient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Present Century 48
Salvation Through the Grace of our Saviour Displayed 47
Essays on the Active Powers of Man 46
Memoirs of the Court of France, during the Reign of Lewis XIV. and the Regency of the Duke of Orleans 46
Chrysal: or, The Adventures of a Guinea 45
Recess; or, A Tale of Other Times 45
Denial; or, The Happy Retreat 44
Desmond. A Novel 44
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect [Robert Burns] 43
Travels from the Cape of Good-Hope, into the Interior Parts of Africa 43
History of England [Catherine Macaulay] 42
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind 41
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 41
Medical Commentaries [Andrew Duncan] 41
Poesie del Signor Abate Pietro Metastasio 39
Works of Henry Fielding 39
Original Anecdotes of Peter the Great 38
Winter Evenings: or Lucubrations on Life and Letters 38
Christian Remembrancer 37
Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste 37
Collection and Abridgement of Celebrated Criminal Trials in Scotland 36
History of Miss Greville 36
Posthumous Works of Frederick II King of Prussia 35
Cabinet des Fées 34
Persian Tales; or The Thousand and One Days 34
Chemical Essays [Richard Watson] 33
Companion. Being a Choice cCllection of the Most Admired Pieces from the Best Authors 33
History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and King James VI 33
Memoirs of the Life and Reign of Frederick the Third, King of Prussia 33
Works of Voltaire 33

Book language

English 14551
French 497
Latin 102
Italian 57
German 24
Hebrew 12
Greek 8
Spanish 8
Gaelic 1
Icelandic 1
Russian 1

Book place of publication

London 11340
Edinburgh 3058
Paris 375
Perth 176
Cambridge 156
Dublin 67
York 48
Geneva 36
Kehl 35
Warrington 33
Amsterdam 30
Birmingham 30
Oxford 28
Leipzig 25
Aberdeen 23
Liverpool 23
Berlin 22
Glasgow 15
Strasbourg 12
Madrid 10
Stockholm 10
Boston 9
Paisley 9
Bath 8
Copenhagen 7
Göttingen 7
Neuchâtel 7
Venice 7
Exeter 5
Leiden 5
Naples 5
Newcastle upon Tyne 5
Philadelphia 5
The Hague 5
i.e. Amsterdam? 5
Burlington 4
Mannheim 4
Winchester 4
Calcutta 3
Newark 3
Reading 3
Vienna 3
Zweibrücken 3
Altenburg 2
Dresden 2
Frankfurt am Main 2
Gotha 2
Jena 2
Lille 2
Liège 2
Rome 2
Salisbury 2
Siena 2
Strabane 2
Bern 1
Berwick 1
Caen 1
Canterbury 1
Chambéry 1
Edinburgh? 1
Greifswald 1
Halle 1
Heidelberg 1
Holland 1
Kilmarnock 1
Lausanne 1
Lichfield 1
London? 1
Lynn 1
Marseille 1
Pisa 1
Prague 1
Rouen 1
Sherborne 1
St Petersburg 1
Turin 1
Verona 1
Warsaw 1
Warwick 1
Zurich 1
i.e. Paris? 1

Book format

8vo 9405
4to 2808
12mo 2386
folio 649
18mo 58
16mo 3
24mo 2
14mo 1
score 1

Genre

Travel 2944
History 2456
Fiction 2270
Periodicals 1558
Theology 1258
Sermons 936
Belles Lettres 924
Politics, Society and Political Economy 744
Lives 604
Philosophy and Morality 539
Natural Philosophy 533
Poetry 423
Medicine 411
Reference Works 261
Law 218
Education 174
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 124
Drama 102
Fine Arts 45
Mathematics 32

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