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Library

Orkney Library 8123
Westerkirk 2407
Wigtown Subscription Library 1837
Selkirk Library 1782
Advocates Library 1393
Royal High School of Edinburgh 1318
Chambers' Circulating Library 635
Leighton Library 587
Haddington Library 270
Innerpeffray Library 108
Edinburgh University Library 72
St Andrews University Library 44
Hunterian Museum Library 23
Glasgow University Library 18
Craigston Castle Library 14
Dumfries Presbytery Library 13

Borrower title

Mr 6742
Reverend Mr 2198
Captain 1020
Mrs 963
Dr 659
Miss 352
Lieutenant 227
Reverend 217
Reverend Dr 94
Major 70
Sir 56
Lady 47
Corporal 10
Brigadier General 9
Sous Lieutenant 9
Professor 8
Colonel 6
Right Honourable 5
Sous-Lieutenant 5
Honourable 4
Honourable Mrs 3
Adjudant Major 2
Madame 2
Mrs General 2
Professor Sir 2
Provost 2
Staff Sergeant 2
Lieutenant Colonel 1
Lord 1
Midshipman 1
Mrs Captain 1

Borrower gender

Male 17214
Female 1392
Unknown 36
Unclear 7

Borrower occupation

Law 2387
Independent Means 2217
Religion and Clergy 2102
Minister/Priest 2089
Education 1877
Church of Scotland 1720
Gentleman 1435
Advocate 1428
School Child 1316
Military 1262
Navy 844
Politics/Office Holders 785
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 784
Writer/Procurator 742
Medicine and Health 668
Arts and Letters 523
Sheriff 456
Agricultural 431
Surgeon 402
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 370
Author 362
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 361
Customs Collector 333
Prisoner of War 322
Farmer 314
Tenant 293
Merchants/Traders 268
Physician 260
Unknown denomination 260
University Student 230
School Master/Dominie 154
Tax Collector 143
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 136
University Professor 132
Advocate Depute 122
Lord Provost/Provost 114
Mariner 114
Surveyor 113
Ships Owner 112
Tanner/Currier 103
Miscellaneous 101
Presbyterian Seceder 100
Wife/Spouse 100
Army 99
Poet 95
Librarian 87
MP (Britain) 77
Land Manager/Factor 67
Notaries/Clerks 67
Dean of Faculty 66
Service Provision and Hospitality 66
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 63
Print and Book Trade 62
Booksellers 61
Barrister 58
Bookbinder 53
Mason/Miller 46
Teacher 46
Writer to the Signet (WS) 44
Banker 41
Grocer 40
Factor/Agent 38
Accountant 37
Clerk of Session 35
Watchmaker 31
Solicitor-General 23
Construction 21
Judge 21
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 17
Distiller 16
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 14
Architect 13
Retailer/Shopkeeper 13
Baron of the Exchequer 10
Lord Advocate 10
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 10
Baillie 8
Clerks 8
Publishers 8
Chaplain 7
Engineer 7
Lord Justice Clerk 7
Officer 7
Provost 7
Brewer 6
Curator 6
Druggist/Chemist/Apothecary 6
Dyer 6
Shoemaker 6
Gardener 5
Musician 5
Innkeeper/Tavernkeeper 4
Lay Preacher 4
Mill Owner 3
Painter/Limner 3
Lord President 2
Messenger-at-arms 2
Ships Captain 2
Trade of Slave-Produced Commodities 2
Tutor 2

Author

Sir Walter Scott 1298
Maria Edgeworth 629
David Brewster 398
Jane Porter 391
Mrs Elizabeth Inchbald 358
Robert Forsyth 279
Mary Brunton 262
Elizabeth Hamilton 176
Christian Isobel Johnstone 175
James Bruce 171
William Fordyce Mavor 160
James Hogg 156
William Robertson 153
William Russell 152
Hannah More 151
Mungo Park 149
Isaac Milner 144
Joseph Milner 144
Edward Gibbon 136
Edward Daniel Clarke 133
Thomas McCrie 132
Frances Burney 120
Tobias George Smollett 118
George Gordon Byron Lord Byron 117
Robert Southey 108
Alexander von Humboldt 103
Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan 99
Thomas Campbell 97
John Knox 95
Jane Austen 87
Madame Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël 80
William Tennant 80
Amelia Alderson Opie 79
Claudius Buchanan 79
Frances Jacson 77
Louis Simond 74
George Cook 72
Arthur Mower 69
Henry Fielding 68
Robert Kerr 66
William Paley 60
Dugald Stewart 58
Thomas Moore 57
James Thomson Minister at Quarrelwood 54
John Scott 54
William Cowper 54
Eaton Stannard Barrett 51
Thomas Clarkson 51
Anne Grant of Laggan 50
D.D. George Lawson 50
David Ramsay 50
Richard Cumberland 50
Benjamin Franklin 48
Eugène Labaume 48
Sarah Harriet Burney 48
Sir John Sinclair 48
John Chetwode Eustace 47
James Carrick Moore 46
Joanna Baillie 46
David Irving 45
John Leyden 45
James Brewster 43
Adam Ferguson 42
Jean-François Marmontel 42
Sir John Leslie 42
Robert Foote Minister of Fettercairn 41
William Bromet 41
Marquise Marie-Louise-Victoire La Rochejaquelein 40
Henry Mackenzie 39
John Gillies 37
John Lambert 37
Thomas Chalmers 37
Thomas Shaw 37
Anna Seward 36
Bryan Edwards 36
George Chalmers 36
James Grahame 36
Thomas Mortimer 36
Thomas Robert Malthus 36
Vicomte François-René de Chateaubriand 36
William Hayley 36
Edmund Burke 35
Andrew Thomson 34
John Jamieson 34
Henry Coxe 33
Horace Walpole 33
John Booth 33
Patrick Graham Minister of Aberfoyle 33
Charles Robert Maturin 32
John Harriott 32
John Hawkesworth 32
Robert Burns 32
Sir Henry Holland 31
William Rutherford 31
Arthur Edmondston 30
S. Gener 30
William Little Minister of Westerkirk 30
John Graham Dalyell 29
John Malcolm 29
Joseph Weber 29

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 498
Scottish Chiefs, A Romance 369
British Theatre; or, a Collection of Plays ... acted at the Theatre Royal 358
Bible 289
Beauties of Scotland: Containing a ... Full Account of the Agriculture, Commerce, Mines, and Manufactures 279
Tales of my Landlord [First Series] 266
Popular Tales [Maria Edgeworth] 208
Antiquary 186
Guy Mannering; or, the Astrologer 178
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile [James Bruce] 171
Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since 171
Cottagers of Glenburnie 164
British Tourists; or, Traveller's Pocket Companion through England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland 155
Works of William Robertson 153
History of Modern Europe 152
Lady of the Lake, a Poem 150
History of the Church of Christ ... Revised and Corrected by Isaac Milner 144
Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa 133
Coelebs in Search of a Wife 130
Tales of Fashionable Life 130
British Essayists 129
New Annual Register 126
Marmion; A Tale of Flodden Field 116
Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett 113
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 112
Clan-Albin: A National Tale 101
Eclectic Review 98
Harrington, A Tale, and Ormond, A Tale 98
Works of the British poets 97
Life of John Knox ... To which is Subjoined an Appendix Consisting of Letters 95
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
Self-Control: A Novel 86
Patronage 82
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
Works of Lord Byron 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
Lives of the Most Eminent British Naval Heroes 64
Pride and Prejudice: A Novel 64
General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels [Kerr] 63
Discipline 62
Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress 61
Lalla Rookh, an Oriental Romance 57
Queen's Wake 57
Edinburgh Annual Register 56
Literary and Statistical Magazine for Scotland 55
Moral Tales for Young People 55
Corinna, or, Italy 54
Theological Discourses on Important Subjects, Doctrinal and Practical 54
Valentine's Eve 54
Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk 52
Indian Recreations 51
Lectures on the History of Joseph 50
Life of George Washington 50
Life of Nelson 50
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border 50
Six Weeks at Long's 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
Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in Spain, Commanded by Sir John Moore 46
Plays on the Passions 46
Tour through Italy 46
Visit to Paris in 1814 46
Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Africa, by the Late John Leyden 45
Wanderer 45
John De Lancaster. A Novel 44
Lectures upon Our Lord's Sermon on the Mount 43
Memoirs of Marmontel, Written by Himself 42
Elements of Geometry and Plane Trigonometry 41
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind 41
History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament 41
Peregrine in France 41
Sermons [Robert Foote] 41
General report of the agricultural state, and political circumstances, of Scotland 39
History of Ancient Greece, its Colonies and Conquests 37
Life of John Knox 37
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of George Buchanan 37
Travels through Canada, and the United States of North America, in the years 1806, 1807, & 1808 37
Travels, or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant 37
British Plutarch 36
Caledonia: or, An Account, Historical and Topographic, of North Britain 36
History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies 36
Letters of Anna Seward written between the Years 1784 and 1807 36

Book language

English 18281
French 185
Latin 60
German 39
Greek 14
Italian 9
Gaelic 7
Spanish 2
Urdu 2
Icelandic 1

Book place of publication

London 9932
Edinburgh 8746
Paris 164
Cambridge 83
Paisley 82
New York 71
Leith 70
Hawick 68
Glasgow 60
Aberdeen 57
Belfast 36
Inverness 17
Leipzig 16
Bath 13
Göttingen 13
Stuttgart 13
Dublin 11
Berlin 10
Ayr 9
Philadelphia 7
Dunfermline 6
Oxford 6
Dundee 5
Newark 5
Chichester 4
Edinburguh 4
Hafod 4
Pwllpeiran 4
Bristol 3
Calcutta 3
Florence 3
Manchester 3
Milan 3
Utrecht 3
Altenburg 2
Amsterdam 2
Chiswick 2
Gloucester 2
Hamburg 2
Montpellier 2
Nottingham 2
Padua 2
Sheffield 2
St Petersburg 2
Tübingen 2
York 2
Caen 1
Copenhagen 1
Cork 1
Frankfurt am Main 1
Göttingen 1
Hackney 1
Halle 1
Hanover 1
Heidelberg 1
Ironbridge 1
Kidderminster 1
Königsberg 1
Leeds 1
Leiden 1
Madrid 1
Pittsburgh 1
Siena 1
Sunderland 1
Verona 1
Vienna 1
Zierizee 1
Zurich 1

Book format

8vo 10158
12mo 4057
4to 1329
folio 426
18mo 136
16mo 20

Genre

Periodicals 5317
Fiction 3989
Travel 2118
Theology 1502
Poetry 1368
History 1258
Lives 1258
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 764
Belles Lettres 562
Drama 507
Reference Works 477
Politics, Society and Political Economy 352
Philosophy and Morality 242
Sermons 211
Natural Philosophy 195
Education 109
Law 90
Medicine 87
Mathematics 50
Fine Arts 21

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