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Library

Royal High School of Edinburgh 1808
Selkirk Library 1095
Westerkirk 885
Leighton Library 697
Glasgow University Library 692
Advocates Library 624
Edinburgh University Library 376
St Andrews University Library 345
Innerpeffray Library 340
Aberdeen Theological Library 186
Wigtown Subscription Library 115
Orkney Library 76
Craigston Castle Library 46
Haddington Library 43
Hunterian Museum Library 16
Dumfries Presbytery Library 13
Chambers' Circulating Library 4
Inverness Kirk Sessions Library 1

Borrower title

Mr 1561
Reverend Mr 478
Captain 99
Dr 94
Lieutenant 89
Mrs 76
Sir 59
Reverend 47
Miss 40
Professor 28
Reverend Dr 18
Midshipman 14
Sous Lieutenant 11
Colonel 9
Right Honourable 9
Major 7
Corporal 5
Principal 4
Prof. 4
Lady 3
Rev. 3
Sous-Lieutenant 3
Rev. Mr 2
Bishop 1

Borrower gender

Male 7209
Female 137
Unclear 5
Unknown 5

Borrower occupation

Education 3428
School Child 1782
University Student 1135
Law 738
Advocate 587
University Professor 562
Religion and Clergy 526
Minister/Priest 505
Church of Scotland 440
Military 329
Prisoner of War 274
Agricultural 179
Independent Means 178
Arts and Letters 159
Tenant 139
Sheriff 135
Author 131
Farmer 122
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 100
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 99
Medicine and Health 97
Surgeon 95
Writer/Procurator 90
Politics/Office Holders 85
Gentleman 79
MP (Britain) 61
Dean of Faculty 60
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 58
Presbyterian Seceder 57
Notaries/Clerks 53
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 49
Chaplain 47
Navy 44
Merchants/Traders 40
School Master/Dominie 35
Construction 31
Advocate Depute 29
Clerk of Session 24
Judge 24
Architect 23
Army 22
Lay Preacher 17
Print and Book Trade 17
Printers 17
Teacher 17
Librarian 16
Lord Advocate 16
Banker 15
Writer to the Signet (WS) 15
Barrister 12
Baron of the Exchequer 11
Clerks 11
Tanner/Currier 11
Baillie 10
Customs Collector 10
Mason/Miller 10
Poet 10
Dyer 9
Factor/Agent 9
Land Manager/Factor 9
Lord President 9
Miscellaneous 9
Solicitor-General 9
Engineer 8
Curator 6
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 6
Lord Provost/Provost 5
Retailer/Shopkeeper 5
Wife/Spouse 5
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 4
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 4
Officer 4
Widow 4
Accountant 3
Episcopalian 3
Lord Justice Clerk 3
Mariner 3
Ships Captain 3
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 3
Watchmaker 3
Advocate’s Clerk 2
Booksellers 2
Mill Owner 2
Physician 2
Publishers 2
Service Provision and Hospitality 2
Brewer 1
Grocer 1
Messenger-at-arms 1
Provost 1
Secretary of State 1
Tutor 1
Unknown denomination 1

Author

Charles Rollin 851
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon 690
Dr John Moore 294
Robert Henry 243
Hugh Blair 240
William Robertson 205
Hugo Arnot 143
Edward Gibbon 117
John Campbell 101
Oliver Goldsmith 97
Dr Samuel Johnson 94
Reverend David Lamont 92
Samuel Richardson 84
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (France) 82
Ambrose Serle 73
Vicesimus Knox 72
John Newton 71
Frances Burney 70
James Burnet Lord Monboddo 63
Sir David Dalrymple Lord Hailes 60
Eyles Irwin 51
William Russell 51
Henry Mackenzie 49
Humphrey Prideaux 45
Catherine Macaulay 42
Pietro Metastasio 39
Reverend Augustus Toplady 38
Johann Georg Zimmermann 37
Richard Graves 37
Robert Lowth 37
William Alexander 37
Comtesse Stéphanie Félicité Genlis 30
John Smith 30
Samuel Jackson Pratt 30
Voltaire 29
William Cowper 29
James Burrow 28
Henry Swinburne 27
Johann David Michaelis 27
William Coxe 27
Tobias George Smollett 26
Henry Home Lord Kames 25
Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire 24
John Hawkesworth 24
John Rickman 23
Gilbert Stuart 20
William Shakespeare 20
Abbé Claude François Xavier Millot 19
John Pinkerton 19
Royal College of Physicians of London 19
Thomas Warton 19
John Millar 18
William Lothian 18
Thomas Scott 17
Jean Frédéric Ostervald 16
Robert Watson 16
Wolfgang Seber 16
Alexander Pope 15
Samuel Foote 15
Donald MacNicol 14
Jean le Rond d' Alembert 14
Abbé Prévost 13
Denis Diderot 13
James Dunbar 13
James Harris 13
James Fitzjames Duke of Berwick 12
Joseph Jenkins 12
Académie royale des sciences et belles lettres (Berlin, Germany) 11
Adam Smith 11
Francis Home 11
Henry Fielding 11
Jean André de Luc 11
Jonathan Carver 11
Thomas Davies 11
Tiberius Cavallo 11
Benjamin Bell 10
Charles Cordiner 10
Nathaniel Lardner 10
William Bell 10
Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences 9
Adair Crawford 9
Alexander Gerard 9
Henri François d' Aguesseau 9
Horace Bénédict de Saussure 9
Lope de Vega 9
Sir William Blackstone 9
Uno von Troil 9
Antoine Court de Gébelin 8
Charles Johnstone 8
Henry Taylor 8
Johann Joachim Winckelmann 8
John Weskett 8
Laurence Sterne 8
Philip Massinger 8
Richard Wavell 8
Sir Isaac Newton 8
Society of Antiquaries of London 8
William Hayley 8
Alexander Monro 7
Barthelemy Mouffle d'Angerville 7

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 684
Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 545
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 243
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 240
Monthly Review. A Periodical Work, Giving an Account ... of, and Extracts from, the New Books, Pamphlets, &c. 199
History of America [William Robertson] 188
Scots Magazine 185
View of Society and Manners in Italy 154
View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany 145
History of Edinburgh 143
New Annual Register 126
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 117
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 115
Sermons on the Most Prevalent Vices [David Lamont] 92
Lives of the English Poets 90
Vicar of Wakefield 89
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
History of Sir Charles Grandison 84
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres 75
Horae Solitariae 73
Evelina, or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World 70
Lives of the Admirals and Other Eminent British Seamen 61
Annals of Scotland [David Dalrymple] 60
Of the Origin and Progress of Language 58
Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill 56
History of Modern Europe 51
Series of Adventures in the Course of a Voyage up the Red-Sea 51
Mirror 49
Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time to the Present 48
Essays Moral and Literary 46
Masquerades; or, What You Will 46
Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations 45
Cardiphonia: or, The Utterance of the Heart; in the Course of a Real Correspondence 42
History of England [Catherine Macaulay] 42
Medical Commentaries [Andrew Duncan] 41
Lives of the British Admirals: Containing a New and Accurate Naval History 40
Poesie del Signor Abate Pietro Metastasio 39
Posthumous Works [Augustus Toplady] 38
Columella; or, The Distressed Anchoret 37
History of Women, from the Earliest Antiquity, to the Present Time 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
Isaiah. A New Translation; with a Preliminary Dissertation, and Notes Critical, Philological, and Explanatory 34
Mirror [Edinburgh] 32
Emma Corbett; or, The Miseries of Civil War 30
Galic Antiquities: Consisting of a History of the Druids 30
Medical Observations and Inquiries 30
Parliamentary Register; or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons 30
Theatre of Education. Translated from the French of the Countess de Genlis 30
Olney Hymns 29
Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, since the Death of Lord Raymond 28
Age of Louis XIV 27
Travels through Spain, in the Years 1775 and 1776 27
Expedition of Humphry Clinker 26
Liberal Education: or, A Practical Treatise on the Methods of Acquiring Useful and Polite Learning 26
Scotch Preacher: or, A Collection of Sermons, by Some of the Most Eminent Clergymen of the Church of Scotland 26
Introductory Lectures to the Sacred Book of the New Testament 25
Almoran and Hamet, An Oriental Tale 24
Sylph; A Novel 24
Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, on Discovery 23
Loose Hints upon Education, Chiefly Concerning the Culture of the Heart 22
Elements of General History 19
History of English Poetry, from the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century 19
Medical Transactions, Published by the College of Physicians in London 19
Scottish Tragic Ballads 19
Supplement to the Edition of Shakspeare's Plays published in 1778 by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens 19
History of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, from the Death of Philip II. King of Spain, to the Truce made with Albert and Isabella 18
Origin of the Distinction of Ranks 18
Force of Truth: An Authentic Narrative 17
History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and King James VI 17
History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain 16
Index Vocabulorum in Homeri Iliade atque Odyssea Caeterisque Quotquot Extant Poematis 16
Lectures on the Exercise of the Sacred Ministry 16
Plays of William Shakespeare 16
Sketches of the Natural, Civil, and Political State of Swisserland 16
Dramatic Works of Samuel Foote 15
Poems [John Logan] 15
Works of Alexander Pope 15
Remarks on Dr Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Hebrides 14
Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers 13
Essays on the History of Mankind in Rude and Cultivated Ages 13
Philological Inquiries [James Harris] 13
Discourses on Select Passages of the Scripture-History 12
History of the Establishment of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland 12
London Magazine: or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer 12
Memoirs of the Marshal Duke of Berwick 12
New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature 12
Account of the Russian Discoveries between Asia and America 11
Clinical Experiments, Histories, and Dissections 11
Dean of Coleraine: A Moral History 11
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 11
Lettres Physiques et Morales sur l'Histoire de la Terre et de l'Homme 11
Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick 11
Theory of Moral Sentiments 11
Travels through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 11
Antiquities and Scenery of the North of Scotland, in a Series of Letters, to Thomas Pennant 10
Attempt to Ascertain and Illustrate the Authority, Nature, and Design of the Institution of Christ commonly called the Communion and the Lord's Supper 10
Historie of the Heretics of the Two First Centuries after Christ 10
Treatise on the Theory and Management of Ulcers 10
Acta Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae 9

Book language

English 6799
French 400
Latin 83
Italian 51
Greek 25
Spanish 17
German 4
Icelandic 2
Saami 1

Book place of publication

London 5657
Edinburgh 1231
Paris 327
Dublin 49
The Hague 36
Bath 33
Oxford 32
Neuchâtel 26
Leipzig 18
Madrid 16
Amsterdam 14
Berlin 13
Shrewsbury 12
Cambridge 11
Göttingen 11
Stockholm 10
St Petersburg 9
Florence 8
Philadelphia 7
Glasgow 6
Warrington 5
i.e. Amsterdam? 5
Geneva 3
Naples 3
Twickenham 3
Altona 2
Canterbury 2
Eton 2
Leiden 2
Lille 2
Liège 2
Valencia 2
Bern 1
Copenhagen 1
Copenhagen? 1
Dresden 1
Jena 1
Newcastle upon Tyne 1
Prague 1
Rome 1
Siena 1
Strasbourg 1
Trondheim 1
Turin 1
Venice 1
Vienna 1
Yverdon 1

Book format

8vo 5095
4to 1259
12mo 716
folio 140
18mo 74
16mo 18
unknown 2
24mo 1

Genre

History 2348
Periodicals 1518
Natural Philosophy 820
Travel 504
Fiction 448
Sermons 435
Belles Lettres 427
Theology 338
Lives 316
Poetry 246
Medicine 164
Law 128
Philosophy and Morality 111
Drama 99
Education 91
Politics, Society and Political Economy 76
Reference Works 47
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 20
Fine Arts 19
Mathematics 16

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