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Library

Royal High School of Edinburgh 3534
Selkirk Library 3037
Leighton Library 2236
Westerkirk 1976
Advocates Library 1638
Edinburgh University Library 996
Aberdeen Theological Library 841
St Andrews University Library 825
Glasgow University Library 793
Wigtown Subscription Library 441
Innerpeffray Library 435
Orkney Library 347
Haddington Library 135
Craigston Castle Library 91
Chambers' Circulating Library 33
Hunterian Museum Library 25
Dumfries Presbytery Library 21
Inverness Kirk Sessions Library 1

Borrower title

Mr 4488
Reverend Mr 1445
Dr 248
Mrs 239
Lieutenant 238
Captain 226
Sir 168
Miss 128
Reverend 95
Reverend Dr 57
Professor 33
Sous Lieutenant 25
Colonel 21
Major 14
Corporal 13
Rev. 13
Prof. 12
Midshipman 11
Adjudant Major 8
Brigadier General 8
Right Honourable 8
Lady 7
Rev. Mr 6
Principal 5
Sous-Lieutenant 4
Provost 3
Lieutenant Colonel 2
Bishop 1
Ensign 1
Rev Mr 1

Borrower gender

Male 16990
Female 401
Unknown 8
Unclear 3

Borrower occupation

Education 6990
School Child 3502
University Student 2717
Law 1970
Religion and Clergy 1603
Minister/Priest 1535
Advocate 1532
Church of Scotland 1307
Military 864
University Professor 782
Prisoner of War 756
Independent Means 563
Agricultural 503
Arts and Letters 503
Author 460
Tenant 400
Sheriff 349
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 324
Farmer 319
Medicine and Health 317
Surgeon 306
Writer/Procurator 267
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 253
Politics/Office Holders 249
Gentleman 239
Presbyterian Seceder 196
MP (Britain) 165
Notaries/Clerks 158
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 154
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 134
Dean of Faculty 118
School Master/Dominie 86
Construction 82
Merchants/Traders 80
Navy 70
Clerk of Session 63
Advocate Depute 62
Tanner/Currier 61
Judge 57
Lay Preacher 56
Chaplain 55
Architect 52
Army 51
Banker 42
Baron of the Exchequer 36
Teacher 34
Lord Advocate 31
Writer to the Signet (WS) 31
Engineer 30
Land Manager/Factor 28
Clerks 26
Customs Collector 26
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 25
Baillie 25
Factor/Agent 24
Lord President 24
Barrister 23
Mason/Miller 22
Poet 21
Print and Book Trade 20
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 20
Lord Provost/Provost 19
Printers 19
Librarian 17
Miscellaneous 17
Retailer/Shopkeeper 17
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 16
Tutor 15
Solicitor-General 14
Curator 13
Dyer 13
Accountant 12
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 12
Surveyor 12
Unknown denomination 12
Wife/Spouse 11
Mariner 9
Physician 9
Officer 7
Service Provision and Hospitality 7
Episcopalian 6
Tax Collector 6
Widow 6
Lord Justice Clerk 5
Watchmaker 5
Mill Owner 4
Ships Captain 4
Advocate’s Clerk 3
Booksellers 3
Elder 3
Messenger-at-arms 3
Privateer 3
Provost 3
Publishers 3
Bishop 2
Brewer 2
Distiller 2
Druggist/Chemist/Apothecary 2
Gardener 2
Grocer 2

Author

Charles Rollin 851
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon 700
Dr John Moore 516
Robert Henry 475
Hugh Blair 400
Doctor Henry Hunter 356
James Cook 294
Edward Gibbon 273
William Robertson 261
Dr Samuel Johnson 251
William Russell 242
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy 207
Constantin François de Chasseboeuf Comte de Volney 205
Richard Watson Bishop of Llandaff 180
Frances Burney 179
Charlotte Turner Smith 177
Thomas Reid 157
William Coxe 157
Johann Lorenz Mosheim 149
Richard Cumberland 148
Henry Swinburne 134
Claude Étienne Savary 133
Henry Home Lord Kames 133
Vicesimus Knox 128
Adam Ferguson 127
Henry Mackenzie 126
John Bell 121
John Gillies 121
Baron François Tott 117
Ambrose Serle 110
Gilbert Stuart 105
Anders Sparrman 101
George Campbell 99
James Beattie 99
James Boswell 98
James Bruce 98
Reverend David Lamont 92
Samuel Richardson 84
Isabelle de Montolieu 83
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (France) 82
Benjamin Bell 82
Royal Society of Edinburgh 80
Mary Pilkington 78
Tobias George Smollett 78
Comte Antoine-François de Fourcroy 76
Comtesse Stéphanie Félicité Genlis 73
Friedrich Trenck Freiherr von der 73
Samuel Ancell 72
William Smellie 71
Elizabeth Keir 68
John Macgowan 68
Mrs Anna Maria Bennett 67
Voltaire 67
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 66
James Burnet Lord Monboddo 60
Nathaniel Lardner 59
William Paley 59
Thomas Newton Bishop of Bristol 58
Abbé Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal 55
William Cullen 55
George Keate 54
Charles Johnstone 53
Eyles Irwin 53
Henry Fielding 50
Louis-Sébastien Mercier 50
Alexander Shanks 47
François Le Vaillant 46
Adam Smith 45
Catherine Macaulay 45
John Newton 45
Sophia Lee 45
James Thomson Minister at Quarrelwood 44
Hugo Arnot 43
John Hunter 43
Robert Burns 43
Anna Maria Mackenzie 41
John Millar 40
Pietro Metastasio 39
Thomas Pennant 39
William Thomson 39
Jakob von Staehlin 38
John Pinkerton 38
Reverend Augustus Toplady 38
William Hayley 38
Archibald Alison 37
Frederick II King of Prussia 35
Hester Lynch Piozzi 34
John Smith 33
Joseph Addison 33
Joseph Towers 33
Richard Hurd 33
Thomas Percival 33
Colonel William Fullarton 32
William Combe 32
William Marshall 32
Baron Jean-François Bourgoing 31
James Riddoch 31
Virgil 31
Joseph White 30
Samuel Jackson Pratt 30

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 694
Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 550
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World 506
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 475
Sacred Biography: or, The History of the Patriarchs from Adam to Abraham 356
Voyage to the Pacific Ocean 288
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 273
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 249
History of Modern Europe 242
Zeluco 225
Encyclopaedia Britannica 222
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
History of America [William Robertson] 188
Scots Magazine 185
Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress 179
View of Society and Manners in Italy 154
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres 151
View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany 142
Collection of Theological Tracts, in Six Volumes [Richard Watson] 128
History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic 126
New Annual Register 126
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark 122
Travels from St Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia 120
History of Ancient Greece, its Colonies and Conquests 118
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
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
Ecclesiastical History [Johann Lorenz Mosheim] 98
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 98
History of Scotland, from the Establishment of the Reformation, till the Death of Queen Mary 93
Sermons on the Most Prevalent Vices [David Lamont] 92
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
History of Sir Charles Grandison 84
Caroline of Lichtfield; A Novel 83
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
Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal 77
Elements of Natural History and Chemistry 75
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres 75
Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 74
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
Don Quixote 66
Essays Moral and Literary 64
Lives of the English Poets 64
Of the Origin and Progress of Language 58
Works of the Right Reverend Thomas Newton 58
Arundel 57
Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill 56
Evidences of the Christian Religion; Briefly and Plainly Stated 53
Series of Adventures in the Course of a Voyage up the Red-Sea 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
Ecclesiastical History, Antient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Present Century 51
Journal of the Late and Important Blockade and Siege of Gibraltar 49
Mirror 49
Works of Nathaniel Lardner 49
Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time to the Present 48
Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies 47
Salvation Through the Grace of our Saviour Displayed 47
Essays on the Active Powers of Man 46
Masquerades; or, What You Will 46
Chrysal: or, The Adventures of a Guinea 45
Recess; or, A Tale of Other Times 45
Denial; or, The Happy Retreat 44
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect [Robert Burns] 43
Travels from the Cape of Good-Hope, into the Interior Parts of Africa 43
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
Poesie del Signor Abate Pietro Metastasio 39
Works of Henry Fielding 39
Original Anecdotes of Peter the Great 38
Posthumous Works [Augustus Toplady] 38
Winter Evenings: or Lucubrations on Life and Letters 38
Christian Remembrancer 37
Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste 37
Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy 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

Book language

English 16456
French 695
Latin 151
Italian 65
Greek 32
German 22
Hebrew 12
Spanish 12
Icelandic 5
Gaelic 1
Russian 1
Saami 1

Book place of publication

London 13389
Edinburgh 2788
Paris 491
Cambridge 164
Perth 163
Dublin 60
Geneva 55
Aberdeen 49
Oxford 48
Amsterdam 41
Bath 38
Warrington 38
Kehl 35
Leipzig 35
The Hague 30
Birmingham 28
Glasgow 26
Neuchâtel 26
Liverpool 23
Berlin 22
York 22
Dumfries 17
Stirling 17
Göttingen 12
Madrid 11
Paisley 11
Copenhagen 10
St Petersburg 10
Stockholm 10
Philadelphia 9
Strasbourg 9
Florence 8
Venice 8
Exeter 5
Newcastle upon Tyne 5
i.e. Amsterdam? 5
Leiden 4
Mannheim 4
Naples 4
Winchester 4
Calcutta 3
Maastricht 3
Reading 3
Rome 3
Twickenham 3
Vienna 3
Zweibrücken 3
Altona 2
Canterbury 2
Dessau 2
Dresden 2
Eton 2
Gotha 2
Lille 2
Liège 2
Salisbury 2
Siena 2
Strabane 2
Turin 2
Valencia 2
Bern 1
Berwick 1
Bouillon 1
Caen 1
Chambéry 1
Copenhagen? 1
Edinburgh? 1
Greifswald 1
Halle 1
Heidelberg 1
Holland 1
Jena 1
Kilmarnock 1
Lausanne 1
Lichfield 1
London? 1
Marseille 1
Pisa 1
Prague 1
Rouen 1
Sherborne 1
Trondheim 1
Verona 1
Warsaw 1
Warwick 1
Yverdon 1
Zurich 1
i.e. Paris? 1

Book format

8vo 11054
4to 3020
12mo 2420
folio 748
18mo 76
16mo 21
24mo 3
unknown 2
14mo 1
score 1

Genre

History 3450
Travel 2952
Fiction 2203
Periodicals 1757
Theology 1452
Natural Philosophy 1260
Sermons 1079
Belles Lettres 1058
Lives 766
Poetry 509
Philosophy and Morality 502
Medicine 466
Politics, Society and Political Economy 462
Reference Works 298
Law 268
Education 258
Drama 171
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 130
Fine Arts 52
Mathematics 38

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