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Library

Selkirk Library 8809
Westerkirk 5968
Royal High School of Edinburgh 4915
Orkney Library 3573
Leighton Library 3130
Advocates Library 2900
Haddington Library 1442
Wigtown Subscription Library 1229
Edinburgh University Library 887
Aberdeen Theological Library 878
St Andrews University Library 699
Glasgow University Library 552
Chambers' Circulating Library 478
Innerpeffray Library 339
Craigston Castle Library 105
Hunterian Museum Library 27
Dumfries Presbytery Library 20

Borrower title

Mr 11175
Reverend Mr 3207
Captain 902
Mrs 805
Lieutenant 715
Dr 589
Miss 382
Sir 213
Reverend 211
Reverend Dr 160
Colonel 76
Sous Lieutenant 45
Lady 39
Major 39
Corporal 34
Professor 28
Brigadier General 25
Sous-Lieutenant 21
Adjudant Major 17
Midshipman 14
Prof. 14
Rev. 14
Right Honourable 12
Lieutenant Colonel 8
Provost 6
Rev. Mr 6
Honourable 5
Principal 5
Lord 4
Madame 4
Honourable Mrs 3
Bishop 2
Ensign 2
Mrs General 2
Baron 1
Misses 1
Rev Mr 1
Staff Sergeant 1

Borrower gender

Male 34536
Female 1362
Unknown 89
Unclear 2

Borrower occupation

Education 8316
School Child 4892
Law 4065
Religion and Clergy 2959
Minister/Priest 2849
Advocate 2784
Military 2600
University Student 2574
Church of Scotland 2390
Prisoner of War 1987
Independent Means 1924
Agricultural 1534
Tenant 1236
Farmer 1043
Gentleman 1012
Arts and Letters 987
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 913
Author 891
Writer/Procurator 889
Medicine and Health 862
Surgeon 714
Politics/Office Holders 689
Sheriff 683
University Professor 633
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 609
Navy 486
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 361
Presbyterian Seceder 355
MP (Britain) 329
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 298
Notaries/Clerks 297
Merchants/Traders 228
Tanner/Currier 202
School Master/Dominie 201
Dean of Faculty 179
Advocate Depute 167
Customs Collector 156
Army 154
Physician 144
Mason/Miller 126
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 112
Teacher 111
Construction 109
Miscellaneous 98
Writer to the Signet (WS) 98
Clerk of Session 92
Wife/Spouse 88
Banker 82
Barrister 76
Judge 76
Lord Provost/Provost 76
Unknown denomination 70
Lay Preacher 68
Service Provision and Hospitality 66
Architect 62
Retailer/Shopkeeper 62
Poet 61
Tax Collector 60
Mariner 57
Factor/Agent 56
Lord Advocate 50
Surveyor 50
Land Manager/Factor 47
Ships Owner 42
Baron of the Exchequer 41
Engineer 41
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 39
Accountant 38
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 35
Librarian 35
Solicitor-General 35
Provost 31
Chaplain 30
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 29
Print and Book Trade 29
Watchmaker 28
Clerks 25
Baillie 24
Lord President 24
Grocer 23
Booksellers 18
Brewer 18
Shoemaker 18
Tutor 17
Curator 15
Episcopalian 13
Gardener 13
Printers 13
Innkeeper/Tavernkeeper 12
Mill Owner 12
Officer 12
Bookbinder 11
Distiller 11
Lord Justice Clerk 11
Privateer 11
Dyer 10
Widow 10
Painter/Limner 7
Publishers 7
Builder 6

Author

William Fordyce Mavor 1213
Robert Henry 618
Edward Gibbon 545
Maria Edgeworth 535
Dr John Moore 492
Robert Burns 485
Doctor Henry Hunter 460
Hugh Blair 435
Dr James Currie 405
David Brewster 399
Mrs Elizabeth Inchbald 397
Frances Burney 393
William Russell 366
Tobias George Smollett 361
Elizabeth Hamilton 359
Sir Walter Scott 339
Sir John Sinclair 336
William Robertson 323
Charlotte Turner Smith 311
Dr Samuel Johnson 309
Richard Cumberland 303
James Cook 300
Ann Radcliffe 295
David Hume 288
Robert Forsyth 285
William Coxe 280
James Boswell 262
Mungo Park 223
John Gillies 212
Constantin François de Chasseboeuf Comte de Volney 208
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy 208
Richard Watson Bishop of Llandaff 203
Charles Rollin 200
Thomas Reid 173
Adam Ferguson 169
Mary Pilkington 154
George Campbell 152
Johann Lorenz Mosheim 149
Mrs Anna Maria Bennett 149
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 147
Anne Grant of Laggan 143
Henry Mackenzie 137
Malcolm Laing 137
Henry Swinburne 134
Laurence Sterne 134
Claude Étienne Savary 133
Hannah More 131
Bryan Edwards 125
William Paley 125
John Bell 124
James Beattie 121
John Witherspoon 119
Robert Bisset 119
James Bruce 118
Baron François Tott 117
Vicesimus Knox 114
William Cowper 113
Henry Home Lord Kames 111
Ambrose Serle 110
William Bingley 109
Flavius Josephus 106
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 105
Gilbert Stuart 103
Henry Brooke 103
Anders Sparrman 101
D.D. George Lawson 101
John Young 101
James Thomson Minister at Quarrelwood 98
Marquis Antoine François Bertrand de Moleville 98
Thomas Mortimer 98
Adam Smith 97
Joseph Hall 96
Benjamin Bell 95
Jean-François Marmontel 93
Robert Heron 93
Jane Porter 92
Robert Charles Dallas 91
William Dodd 90
Donald Campbell 86
Lodovico Ariosto 86
James Macpherson 85
Isabelle de Montolieu 84
Joseph Townsend 84
John Logan 83
Madame Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël 83
Royal Society of Edinburgh 80
Dugald Stewart 77
Comte Antoine-François de Fourcroy 76
Peter Simon Pallas 76
Thomas Campbell 75
Abbé Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal 74
Benjamin Franklin 74
James Meikle 74
Friedrich Trenck Freiherr von der 73
Geoffrey Chaucer 73
Samuel Jackson Pratt 73
William Hayley 73
Samuel Ancell 72
Patrick Colquhoun 71
William Smellie 71

Book Work

Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries [William Fordyce Mavor] 955
Edinburgh Review, or, Critical Journal 886
Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 682
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 618
Quarterly Review 599
Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 528
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 510
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World 506
Works of Robert Burns 405
British Theatre; or, a Collection of Plays ... acted at the Theatre Royal 358
Sacred Biography: or, The History of the Patriarchs from Adam to Abraham 356
Statistical Account of Scotland 308
History of Modern Europe 297
Voyage to the Pacific Ocean 294
Beauties of Scotland: Containing a ... Full Account of the Agriculture, Commerce, Mines, and Manufactures 279
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 260
History of England [David Hume] 256
Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress 240
Encyclopaedia Britannica 228
Zeluco 225
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797 223
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark 221
History of England [Tobias Smollett] 218
History of Ancient Greece, its Colonies and Conquests 209
Works of Samuel Johnson 208
Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece 207
Travels through Syria and Egypt, in the Years 1783, 1784, and 1785 205
Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians 200
Monthly Review. A Periodical Work, Giving an Account ... of, and Extracts from, the New Books, Pamphlets, &c. 199
Scots Magazine 185
Popular Tales [Maria Edgeworth] 180
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres 175
Cottagers of Glenburnie 164
History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic 164
British Tourists; or, Traveller's Pocket Companion through England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland 155
Collection of Theological Tracts, in Six Volumes [Richard Watson] 150
Don Quixote 146
History of Scotland from the Union of the Crowns on the Accession of James VI to the Throne of England, to the Union of the Kingdoms in the Reign of Queen Anne 137
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border 134
Life of Samuel Johnson [James Boswell] 132
Works of Laurence Sterne 132
Coelebs in Search of a Wife 130
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 130
Tales of Fashionable Life 130
British Essayists 129
New Annual Register 126
History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies 125
Travels from St Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia 121
Works of John Witherspoon 119
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 115
Travels through Spain, in the Years 1775 and 1776 113
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile [James Bruce] 111
Mysteries of Udolpho 110
Letters on Egypt [Claude Étienne Savary] 108
Works of Flavius Josephus 106
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
Sermons on Various Practical Subjects [John Young] 100
Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle 99
Four Gospels, Translated from the Greek 99
History of America [William Robertson] 99
Letters from the Mountains 99
Ecclesiastical History [Johann Lorenz Mosheim] 98
Eclectic Review 98
British Plutarch 97
Works of the British poets 97
Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testament 96
Works of William Robertson 94
History of Scotland, from the Establishment of the Reformation, till the Death of Queen Mary 93
Memoirs of Marmontel, Written by Himself 93
Thaddeus of Warsaw 92
Animal Biography; or, Authentic Anecdotes of the Lives, Manners and Economy, of the Animal Creation 90
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
Orlando Furioso 86
Italian 85
Poems of Ossian 85
Caroline of Lichtfield; A Novel 84
System of Surgery [Benjamin Bell] 83
Romance of the Forest 82
Sermons [John Logan] 82
Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China 80
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth 80
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect [Robert Burns] 80
Sermons [Henry Hunter] 80
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 80
Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors 79
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 79
Delia, a Pathetic and Interesting Tale 78
Ethelinde, or The Recluse of the Lake 78
Edward 77
Elegant Epistles; or, A Copious Collection of Familiar and Amusing Letters 77
Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal 77
Accusing Spirit; or, De Courcy and Eglantine: A Romance 76
Mordaunt 76
Elements of Natural History and Chemistry 75
Journey through Spain in the Years 1786 and 1787 75

Book language

English 34918
French 726
Latin 173
Italian 69
German 60
Greek 25
Hebrew 13
Spanish 13
Gaelic 8
Icelandic 3
Scots 3
Arabic 1
Russian 1

Book place of publication

London 25722
Edinburgh 7726
Paris 568
Glasgow 366
Perth 353
Liverpool 270
Dublin 174
Cambridge 170
Bath 150
Oxford 109
New York 73
Aberdeen 72
Kelso 71
York 70
Paisley 66
Philadelphia 66
Leith 64
Carlisle 60
Cupar-Fife 59
Geneva 52
Leipzig 50
Dundee 45
Chichester 42
Hawick 38
Belfast 36
Kehl 35
Birmingham 34
Berlin 33
Macclesfield 33
Warrington 33
Amsterdam 32
Bristol 32
Montrose 25
Doncaster 22
Göttingen 19
Dumfries 17
Leeds 17
Stirling 17
Madrid 15
Strasbourg 13
The Hague 12
Copenhagen 11
Stockholm 11
Newcastle 10
St Petersburg 10
Boston 9
Newark 8
Venice 8
Gotha 7
Leiden 7
Neuchâtel 7
Calcutta 6
Exeter 5
Hamburg 5
Inverness 5
Naples 5
Newcastle upon Tyne 5
Norwich 5
Stockport 5
i.e. Amsterdam? 5
Burlington 4
Cork 4
Frankfurt am Main 4
Hafod 4
Lausanne 4
Mannheim 4
Milan 4
Padua 4
Pwllpeiran 4
Winchester 4
Arbroath 3
Clipstone 3
Gloucester 3
Jena 3
Kingston, Jamaica 3
Maastricht 3
Manchester 3
Reading 3
Salisbury 3
Utrecht 3
Vienna 3
Zweibrücken 3
Altenburg 2
Dessau 2
Dresden 2
Edinburgh? 2
Florence 2
Halle 2
Hanover 2
Hereford 2
Königsberg 2
Lille 2
Liverno 2
Liège 2
Pisa 2
Rome 2
Shrewsbury 2
Siena 2
St Andrews 2
Strabane 2

Book format

8vo 20294
12mo 7604
4to 4654
18mo 1132
folio 1076
16mo 184
24mo 2
14mo 1
score 1

Genre

Travel 6526
Fiction 6028
History 5188
Periodicals 3543
Lives 2825
Theology 2401
Poetry 2293
Belles Lettres 1932
Sermons 1830
Politics, Society and Political Economy 1464
Philosophy and Morality 969
Natural Philosophy 946
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 910
Reference Works 744
Drama 638
Medicine 507
Education 448
Law 299
Fine Arts 89
Mathematics 56

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