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Library

Selkirk Library 3992
Royal High School of Edinburgh 2005
Westerkirk 1967
Leighton Library 1179
Orkney Library 1057
Advocates Library 981
Haddington Library 716
Wigtown Subscription Library 383
Innerpeffray Library 216
Chambers' Circulating Library 204
Edinburgh University Library 139
Aberdeen Theological Library 130
Craigston Castle Library 35
Glasgow University Library 31
St Andrews University Library 26
Hunterian Museum Library 7

Borrower title

Mr 4403
Reverend Mr 1304
Lieutenant 320
Mrs 274
Captain 263
Dr 150
Miss 132
Reverend 95
Reverend Dr 76
Sir 71
Colonel 43
Lady 20
Corporal 16
Sous Lieutenant 15
Major 12
Sous-Lieutenant 10
Right Honourable 8
Brigadier General 7
Adjudant Major 6
Professor 6
Lieutenant Colonel 4
Prof. 4
Lord 3
Honourable 2
Midshipman 2
Principal 2
Provost 2
Rev. 2
Baron 1
Bishop 1
Honourable Mrs 1
Madame 1
Mrs General 1
Staff Sergeant 1

Borrower gender

Male 12565
Female 476
Unknown 44
Unclear 1

Borrower occupation

Education 2585
School Child 1999
Law 1494
Religion and Clergy 1003
Military 994
Minister/Priest 977
Advocate 964
Prisoner of War 823
Church of Scotland 796
Agricultural 666
Independent Means 638
Tenant 543
Farmer 455
University Student 385
Writer/Procurator 379
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 365
Medicine and Health 358
Arts and Letters 355
Author 333
Surgeon 320
Gentleman 273
Politics/Office Holders 271
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 235
Sheriff 227
Presbyterian Seceder 140
MP (Britain) 137
Notaries/Clerks 126
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 120
University Professor 103
Navy 100
Army 75
Advocate Depute 73
Merchants/Traders 71
Tanner/Currier 70
Customs Collector 69
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 67
School Master/Dominie 62
Dean of Faculty 60
Mason/Miller 53
Teacher 50
Miscellaneous 46
Wife/Spouse 46
Construction 44
Writer to the Signet (WS) 44
Barrister 39
Physician 37
Service Provision and Hospitality 37
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 35
Retailer/Shopkeeper 31
Architect 30
Banker 30
Clerk of Session 30
Lord Provost/Provost 29
Unknown denomination 28
Mariner 27
Poet 25
Judge 24
Factor/Agent 22
Ships Owner 21
Lord Advocate 19
Solicitor-General 17
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 16
Tax Collector 15
Accountant 14
Brewer 14
Grocer 14
Provost 14
Surveyor 13
Engineer 12
Lay Preacher 12
Baillie 11
Clerks 11
Land Manager/Factor 10
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 10
Dyer 9
Watchmaker 9
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 8
Baron of the Exchequer 7
Mill Owner 7
Print and Book Trade 7
Booksellers 6
Officer 6
Chaplain 5
Distiller 5
Gardener 5
Lord Justice Clerk 5
Shoemaker 5
Episcopalian 4
Innkeeper/Tavernkeeper 4
Librarian 4
Publishers 4
Lord President 3
Privateer 3
Ships Captain 3
Tutor 3
Bookbinder 2
Builder 2
Painter/Limner 2
Curator 1
Druggist/Chemist/Apothecary 1

Author

William Fordyce Mavor 1033
Dr James Currie 405
Robert Burns 405
Sir John Sinclair 310
Edward Gibbon 279
Hugh Blair 251
Mungo Park 223
William Russell 207
Charles Rollin 200
Dr John Moore 159
Elizabeth Hamilton 143
Laurence Sterne 126
Robert Bisset 119
David Hume 113
Maria Edgeworth 108
Ann Radcliffe 107
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 102
Robert Henry 102
John Young 100
William Robertson 99
Marquis Antoine François Bertrand de Moleville 98
Joseph Hall 96
James Boswell 93
Robert Charles Dallas 91
Donald Campbell 86
Frances Burney 80
Mrs Anna Maria Bennett 79
William Cowper 79
Lodovico Ariosto 78
Dugald Stewart 76
Mary Pilkington 76
Thomas Campbell 75
Samuel Jackson Pratt 73
Peter Simon Pallas 72
Geoffrey Chaucer 71
Sir Walter Scott 71
William Smellie 71
John Payne 68
Patrick Colquhoun 65
Richard Cumberland 65
William Tooke 65
Mary Robinson 64
Thomas Mortimer 62
Bryan Edwards 61
Elizabeth Hervey 61
Robert McCulloch 61
Doctor Henry Hunter 60
Sarah Harriet Burney 60
William Dodd 60
Benjamin Franklin 59
Charles Thompson Traveller 56
Malcolm Laing 56
William Hunter 56
Comte Jean-François de Galaup La Pérouse 55
Vivant Denon 52
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 50
John Evans 49
Joanna Baillie 46
Tobias George Smollett 46
Jane West 45
Richard Lovell Edgeworth 45
Helen Maria Williams 44
Adam Smith 43
Johann Caspar Lavater 43
Thomas Gisborne 43
Robert Bage 42
Amelia Alderson Opie 41
Sir Robert Thomas Wilson 41
Etienne François de Lantier 38
George Campbell 38
James Meikle 37
Thomas Scott 37
William Roscoe 37
Mrs Elizabeth Inchbald 36
D.D. John Erskine 35
John Home 34
David Simpson 33
Edward Young 33
Robert Bloomfield 33
William Coxe 33
William Hayley 33
Rev. John Bennett 32
William Roberts 32
Alexander Pope 31
Dr Samuel Johnson 31
James Macpherson 31
John Palmer Jun. 31
Karl Philipp Moritz 31
Michael Symes 31
Robert Southey 31
William Wilberforce 31
Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall 30
Auguste Heinrich Julius Lafontaine 29
Sir Alexander Mackenzie 28
Alexander Ranken 27
Charles François Philibert Masson 27
Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan 27
Sophia Fortnum 27
James Sibbald 26
Baron Horatio Walpole 25

Book Work

Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries [William Fordyce Mavor] 955
Edinburgh Review, or, Critical Journal 886
Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 498
Works of Robert Burns 405
Statistical Account of Scotland 308
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 251
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 244
Encyclopaedia Britannica 228
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797 223
History of Modern Europe 207
Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians 200
Scots Magazine 185
New Annual Register 126
Works of Laurence Sterne 126
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 102
History of England [David Hume] 101
Sermons on Various Practical Subjects [John Young] 100
History of America [William Robertson] 99
Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testament 96
Life of Samuel Johnson [James Boswell] 93
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
Italian 85
Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China 80
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth 80
Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors 79
Orlando Furioso 78
Edward 77
Accusing Spirit; or, De Courcy and Eglantine: A Romance 76
Mordaunt 76
Pleasures of Hope 75
Bell's British Theatre 73
Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal 73
Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire in the Years 1793 and 1794 72
Canterbury Tales 71
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border 71
Philosophy of Natural History 71
Journey over Land to India 69
Percival, or Nature Vindicated 69
New and Complete System of Universal Geography 68
Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah 67
Henry [Richard Cumberland] 65
View of the Russian Empire during the Reign of Catharine the Second 65
Angelina; A Novel 64
Farmer's Magazine (Edinburgh, Scotland) 64
Universal History, Ancient and Modern; from the Earliest Records of Time, to the General Peace of 1801 64
Memoirs of Modern Philosophers 63
British Plutarch 61
History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies 61
Belinda 60
Clarentine: A Novel 60
Paul and Virginia 60
Sisters; or, The History of Lucy & Caroline Sanson, Entrusted to a False Friend 60
Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin 59
Private Memoirs Relative to the Last Year of the Reign of Lewis the Sixteenth 57
Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis 57
Church of St Siffrid 56
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 56
Travels in the year 1792 through France, Turkey, and Hungary, to Vienna 56
Travels through Turkey in Asia, the Holy Land, Arabia, Egypt and Other Parts of the World 56
Voyage of La Pérouse round the World, in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, with the Nautical Tables 54
Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt in Company with Several Divisions of the French Army 52
Lectures on the Prophecies of Isaiah 51
Douglas; or, The Highlander 50
Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 50
Brief Sketch of the Several Denominations into which the Christian World is Divided 49
Anecdotes, Religious, Moral and Entertaining 47
Poems [William Cowper] 47
Castle Rackrent, An Hibernian Tale 46
Plays on the Passions 46
Infidel Father 45
Essay on Irish Bulls 43
Hermsprong; or, Man as He is Not 42
Studies of Nature 42
Tour in Switzerland 42
Annals of the French Revolution; or, A Chronological Account of its Principal Events 41
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind 41
Family Secrets, Literary and Domestic 41
Father and Daughter, a Tale, in Prose: with an Epistle from the Maid of Corinth to her Lover; and Other Poetical Pieces 41
History of the British Expedition to Egypt 41
Medical Commentaries [Andrew Duncan] 41
History of England [Tobias Smollett] 38
Travels of Antenor in Greece and Asia: from a Greek Manuscript found at Herculaneum 38
Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent 37
Sermons on Select Subjects [Thomas Scott] 37
Solitude Sweetened: or, Miscellaneous Meditations on Several Religious Subjects, Written in Distant Parts of the World 37
History of the Reign of George III [Robert Bisset] 36
Nature and Art 36
Sermons [Henry Hunter] 36
Discourses Preached on Several Occasions [John Erskine] 35
Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon 35
History of the Rebellion in ... 1745 34
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 33
Life of Edmund Burke 33
Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole 33
Monthly Magazine and British Register 33
Plea for Religion, and the Sacred Writings 33
Works of Edward Young 33
Farmer's Boy; A Rural Poem 32
Gleanings through Wales, Holland and Westphalia ... To which is added Humanity; or The Rights of Nature. A Poem 32
Letters to a Young Lady, on a Variety of Useful and Interesting Subjects 32

Book language

English 12855
French 131
Latin 43
German 24
Greek 11
Italian 5
Spanish 3
Scots 2
Arabic 1
Icelandic 1

Book place of publication

London 9303
Edinburgh 2854
Glasgow 251
Liverpool 244
Paris 101
Bath 78
Oxford 78
Perth 78
New York 73
Dublin 72
Kelso 71
Philadelphia 58
Dundee 45
Macclesfield 33
Bristol 32
Chichester 32
Leipzig 28
Montrose 25
Berlin 18
Leeds 17
Göttingen 13
Cambridge 11
Newcastle 10
Calcutta 6
Norwich 5
Stockport 5
The Hague 5
Cork 4
Padua 4
Pwllpeiran 4
Amsterdam 3
Arbroath 3
Birmingham 3
Clipstone 3
Hamburg 3
Kingston, Jamaica 3
Lausanne 3
Madrid 3
Neuchâtel 3
York 3
Altenburg 2
Copenhagen 2
Halle 2
Hereford 2
Jena 2
Leiden 2
Liverno 2
Manchester 2
St Andrews 2
Sudbury 2
Utrecht 2
Brentford 1
Canterbury 1
Derby 1
Edinburgh? 1
Frankfurt am Main 1
Hanover 1
Northumberland PA 1
Pisa 1
Salisbury 1
Siena 1
Strasbourg 1
Verona 1
Züllichau 1

Book format

8vo 7870
12mo 2378
4to 1674
18mo 1052
16mo 33
folio 33

Genre

Travel 2414
Periodicals 2165
History 1968
Fiction 1902
Lives 1196
Poetry 1193
Sermons 700
Politics, Society and Political Economy 668
Belles Lettres 483
Theology 477
Natural Philosophy 330
Reference Works 244
Philosophy and Morality 187
Drama 151
Education 138
Medicine 122
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 120
Law 78
Fine Arts 23
Mathematics 18

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