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Library

Orkney Library 8880
Wigtown Subscription Library 2204
Advocates Library 2038
Royal High School of Edinburgh 1504
Westerkirk 1168
Selkirk Library 965
Chambers' Circulating Library 868
Leighton Library 460
Innerpeffray Library 108
St Andrews University Library 78
Edinburgh University Library 62
Hunterian Museum Library 16
Craigston Castle Library 10
Dumfries Presbytery Library 10
Glasgow University Library 8

Borrower title

Mr 7295
Reverend Mr 2236
Mrs 1096
Captain 958
Dr 673
Miss 409
Reverend 211
Lieutenant 201
Reverend Dr 98
Major 85
Sir 69
Lady 60
Corporal 8
Colonel 6
Honourable 6
Professor 6
Brigadier General 5
Right Honourable 4
Sous Lieutenant 4
Sous-Lieutenant 4
Honourable Mrs 3
Madame 2
Mrs General 2
Professor Sir 2
Staff Sergeant 2
Midshipman 1
Mrs Captain 1

Borrower gender

Male 16755
Female 1579
Unknown 35
Unclear 8

Borrower occupation

Law 3060
Independent Means 2304
Education 2125
Religion and Clergy 2105
Minister/Priest 2101
Advocate 2043
Church of Scotland 1761
School Child 1496
Gentleman 1462
Military 1101
Politics/Office Holders 916
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 844
Navy 818
Writer/Procurator 809
Medicine and Health 684
Sheriff 606
Arts and Letters 570
Surgeon 422
Customs Collector 415
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 400
Author 342
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 321
Merchants/Traders 285
Unknown denomination 267
Agricultural 265
Physician 254
University Student 252
Advocate Depute 178
University Professor 171
Farmer 165
School Master/Dominie 165
Poet 164
Prisoner of War 164
Surveyor 155
Tenant 155
Miscellaneous 146
Wife/Spouse 146
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 145
Mariner 140
Tax Collector 139
Ships Owner 138
Lord Provost/Provost 125
Army 117
Librarian 108
Service Provision and Hospitality 88
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 87
Dean of Faculty 84
Barrister 83
Booksellers 82
Print and Book Trade 82
Land Manager/Factor 81
Tanner/Currier 79
MP (Britain) 77
Presbyterian Seceder 69
Bookbinder 67
Grocer 60
Writer to the Signet (WS) 60
Clerk of Session 52
Notaries/Clerks 47
Factor/Agent 45
Banker 41
Accountant 40
Teacher 40
Watchmaker 39
Solicitor-General 30
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 26
Judge 22
Construction 20
Distiller 20
Mason/Miller 19
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 18
Baron of the Exchequer 16
Publishers 15
Architect 13
Lord Advocate 13
Baillie 8
Clerks 8
Druggist/Chemist/Apothecary 8
Lord Justice Clerk 8
Officer 8
Brewer 6
Dyer 6
Retailer/Shopkeeper 6
Curator 5
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 5
Chaplain 4
Engineer 4
Messenger-at-arms 4
Builder 3
Musician 3
Lay Preacher 2
Lord President 2
Ships Captain 2
Tutor 2
Victualler 2
Magistrate 1
Mill Owner 1
Supporting Activities 1

Author

Sir Walter Scott 2409
David Brewster 398
Maria Edgeworth 396
Mary Brunton 326
Christian Isobel Johnstone 175
Thomas McCrie 172
James Bruce 171
George Gordon Byron Lord Byron 170
James Hogg 154
Tobias George Smollett 154
William Robertson 153
Mungo Park 149
Edward Gibbon 136
Edward Daniel Clarke 133
Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan 133
Washington Irving 132
David Hume 126
Alexander von Humboldt 102
Amelia Alderson Opie 98
Jane Austen 96
John Knox 95
John Galt 93
Captain Thomas Pococke 92
Robert Southey 85
Charles Robert Maturin 83
Louis Simond 82
Claudius Buchanan 79
Thomas Campbell 79
Frances Jacson 77
John Gibson Lockhart 76
George Cook 73
Arthur Mower 69
Henry Fielding 66
William Cobbett 66
Robert Kerr 65
William Scoresby 64
Robert Mudie 60
Thomas Moore 60
William Paley 59
John Scott 58
Dugald Stewart 55
Morris Birkbeck 54
John Leyden 52
Benjamin Franklin 51
Eaton Stannard Barrett 50
Hugh Murray 50
Major General David Stewart 50
William Cowper 50
Eugène Labaume 48
George Chalmers 48
John Chetwode Eustace 48
Sarah Harriet Burney 48
Frances Burney 47
Joanna Baillie 46
Sir John Leslie 44
Adam Ferguson 42
Susan Ferrier 42
William Tennant 42
William Bromet 41
Alexander Peterkin 40
Charlotte Champion Willyams 40
George Crabbe 40
Jane Louise Willyams 40
Marquise Marie-Louise-Victoire La Rochejaquelein 40
Sir John Sinclair 39
Barbara Hofland 38
Captain Basil Hall 37
Horace Walpole 37
John Lambert 37
Thomas Chalmers 37
Anna Seward 36
Vicomte François-René de Chateaubriand 36
Edmund Burke 35
Robert Burns 35
Andrew Thomson 34
John Wilson 'Christopher North' 34
Thomas Brown The Elder 34
Henry Coxe 33
John Booth 33
Edward Nares 32
William Hayley 32
Colonel Francis Hall 31
Henry Bradshaw Fearon 31
James Fenimore Cooper 31
Henry Mackenzie 30
John Howison 30
John Shillibeer 30
Lucy Aikin 30
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 30
S. Gener 30
Sir Henry Holland 30
William Little Minister of Westerkirk 30
John Graham Dalyell 29
John Malcolm 29
Joseph Weber 29
Vasiliĭ Mikhaĭlovich Golovnin 29
William Williams Pantycelyn 29
Plutarch 28
Alexander Ranken 27
D.D. Alexander Macleod 27

Book Work

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 2044
Edinburgh Review, or, Critical Journal 886
Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 682
Quarterly Review 599
Edinburgh Christian Instructor 583
Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 497
Tales of my Landlord [First Series] 294
Bible 289
Ivanhoe; a Romance 195
Antiquary 186
Guy Mannering; or, the Astrologer 178
New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal 174
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile [James Bruce] 171
Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since 171
Abbot 157
Works of William Robertson 153
Rob Roy 149
Pirate 143
Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley 136
Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa 133
Tales of Fashionable Life 130
Works of Lord Byron 130
Tales of my Landlord [Third Series] 127
New Annual Register 126
History of England [David Hume] 125
Monastery. A Romance 119
Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett 113
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 112
Kenilworth, a Romance 109
Fortunes of Nigel 104
Clan-Albin: A National Tale 101
Eclectic Review 98
Harrington, A Tale, and Ormond, A Tale 98
Life of John Knox ... To which is Subjoined an Appendix Consisting of Letters 95
Journal of a Soldier of the Seventy-First, or Glasgow Regiment Highland Light Infantry, from 1806 to 1815 92
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
Self-Control: A Novel 86
Patronage 82
Peveril of the Peak 81
Tales of my Landlord [Second Series] 81
Christian Researches in Asia; with Notices of the Translation of the Scriptures into the Oriental Languages 78
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent during the Years 1799-1804 77
Rhoda: A Novel 77
Saxon and the Gael; or, The Northern Metropolis: including a View of the Lowland and Highland Character 74
Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 73
Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal 73
History of the Reformation in Scotland [George Cook] 71
O'Donnel: A National Tale 71
Travels in England 71
White Cottage. A Tale 69
Self Control 67
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797 67
Select Works of Henry Fielding 66
Account of the Arctic Regions, with a History and description of the Northern Whale-Fishery 64
Emmeline. With Some Other Pieces 64
Pride and Prejudice: A Novel 64
General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels [Kerr] 63
Discipline 62
Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 61
Glenfergus 60
Lalla Rookh, an Oriental Romance 57
Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk 57
Queen's Wake 57
Edinburgh Annual Register 56
Literary and Statistical Magazine for Scotland 55
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind 54
Valentine's Eve 54
Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk 52
Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels and Asia 50
Life of Nelson 50
Sir Andrew Wylie, of that Ilk 50
Six Weeks at Long's 50
Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland 50
Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr Benjamin Franklin 48
Narrative of the Campaign in Russia, in 1812 [Eugène Labaume] 48
Traits of Nature 48
Discipline: A Novel 47
France [Lady Morgan] 47
Tour through Italy 47
Plays on the Passions 46
Visit to Paris in 1814 46
Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Africa, by the Late John Leyden 45
Wanderer 45
Women 44
Marmion; A Tale of Flodden Field 43
Marriage, a Novel 42
Complete History of England [Tobias Smollett] 41
Elements of Geometry and Plane Trigonometry 41
Peregrine in France 41
Coquetry 40
Life of Andrew Melville 40
Notes on Orkney and Zetland 40
Tales of the Hall 40
General report of the agricultural state, and political circumstances, of Scotland 39
Bracebridge Hall; or, the Humorists 38
Life of John Knox 37
Travels through Canada, and the United States of North America, in the years 1806, 1807, & 1808 37
Caledonia: or, An Account, Historical and Topographic, of North Britain 36
Letters of Anna Seward written between the Years 1784 and 1807 36
Anster Fair ... With Other Poems 34

Book language

English 17995
French 191
Latin 56
German 46
Greek 23
Italian 11
Spanish 2
Urdu 2
Icelandic 1

Book place of publication

Edinburgh 9957
London 8893
Paris 166
Glasgow 94
Cambridge 86
New York 71
Hawick 30
Paisley 27
Leipzig 17
Oxford 17
Aberdeen 15
Stuttgart 14
Inverness 13
Berlin 12
Ayr 9
Dublin 8
Dunfermline 6
Göttingen 6
Leith 6
Dundee 5
Bath 4
Edinburguh 4
Florence 4
Calcutta 3
Chiswick 3
Frankfurt am Main 3
Manchester 3
Milan 3
Philadelphia 3
Tübingen 3
Altenburg 2
Bristol 2
Leeds 2
Montpellier 2
Nottingham 2
Padua 2
Sheffield 2
St Petersburg 2
Utrecht 2
York 2
Amsterdam 1
Breslau 1
Caen 1
Copenhagen 1
Erfurt 1
Geneva 1
Hackney 1
Halle 1
Heidelberg 1
Ironbridge 1
Kidderminster 1
Königsberg 1
Leghorn 1
Leiden 1
Madrid 1
Malacca 1
Munich 1
Preston 1
Siena 1
Verona 1
Vienna 1
Weimar 1
Zierizee 1

Book format

8vo 10497
12mo 3626
4to 1181
folio 415
18mo 136

Genre

Periodicals 5557
Fiction 4967
Travel 2152
History 1263
Theology 1241
Lives 1204
Poetry 909
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 501
Belles Lettres 484
Reference Works 463
Politics, Society and Political Economy 374
Philosophy and Morality 208
Natural Philosophy 193
Drama 148
Law 118
Medicine 106
Sermons 91
Education 64
Mathematics 47
Fine Arts 18
Miscellaneous/Other 1

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