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Library

Orkney Library 2638
Westerkirk 1340
Selkirk Library 1031
Wigtown Subscription Library 605
Royal High School of Edinburgh 497
Advocates Library 490
Leighton Library 440
Chambers' Circulating Library 201
Innerpeffray Library 108
Edinburgh University Library 70
St Andrews University Library 21
Craigston Castle Library 14
Hunterian Museum Library 13
Glasgow University Library 8
Dumfries Presbytery Library 5

Borrower title

Mr 2467
Reverend Mr 1087
Captain 373
Dr 291
Mrs 242
Miss 101
Lieutenant 90
Reverend 70
Reverend Dr 32
Sir 29
Lady 20
Major 12
Corporal 10
Colonel 5
Right Honourable 5
Brigadier General 4
Professor 4
Sous-Lieutenant 4
Sous Lieutenant 3
Honourable Mrs 2
Mrs General 2
Madame 1
Midshipman 1
Provost 1

Borrower gender

Male 7082
Female 380
Unknown 13
Unclear 4

Borrower occupation

Religion and Clergy 933
Minister/Priest 929
Law 869
Education 788
Church of Scotland 764
Independent Means 623
School Child 498
Advocate 497
Military 497
Gentleman 387
Medicine and Health 323
Politics/Office Holders 289
Writer/Procurator 284
Navy 282
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 237
Agricultural 216
Arts and Letters 211
Surgeon 199
Prisoner of War 176
Farmer 175
Tenant 165
Author 159
University Student 153
Sheriff 149
Customs Collector 130
Physician 122
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 118
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 115
Unknown denomination 112
Merchants/Traders 80
School Master/Dominie 65
Tax Collector 65
University Professor 55
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 50
Presbyterian Seceder 49
Advocate Depute 43
Notaries/Clerks 43
Army 40
MP (Britain) 38
Tanner/Currier 37
Miscellaneous 36
Wife/Spouse 36
Lord Provost/Provost 34
Librarian 32
Dean of Faculty 31
Mariner 29
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 28
Ships Owner 28
Barrister 26
Poet 24
Banker 23
Booksellers 21
Print and Book Trade 21
Land Manager/Factor 20
Bookbinder 18
Construction 17
Surveyor 17
Clerk of Session 16
Teacher 16
Architect 13
Factor/Agent 12
Service Provision and Hospitality 12
Accountant 11
Judge 10
Writer to the Signet (WS) 10
Baillie 8
Clerks 8
Solicitor-General 8
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 8
Watchmaker 8
Grocer 7
Mason/Miller 7
Dyer 6
Distiller 5
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 5
Officer 5
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 4
Curator 4
Engineer 3
Lay Preacher 3
Lord Advocate 3
Publishers 3
Baron of the Exchequer 2
Chaplain 2
Druggist/Chemist/Apothecary 2
Lord Justice Clerk 2
Lord President 2
Messenger-at-arms 2
Musician 2
Tutor 2
Builder 1
Mill Owner 1
Retailer/Shopkeeper 1
Ships Captain 1

Author

David Brewster 397
Jane Porter 369
Sir Walter Scott 282
Maria Edgeworth 185
William Fordyce Mavor 159
William Russell 152
Isaac Milner 144
Joseph Milner 144
Tobias George Smollett 113
Mary Brunton 107
Robert Kerr 66
Claudius Buchanan 63
Frances Burney 61
Dugald Stewart 58
James Thomson Minister at Quarrelwood 54
Benjamin Franklin 48
James Carrick Moore 46
Joanna Baillie 46
Richard Cumberland 45
George Cook 43
James Brewster 43
Robert Foote Minister of Fettercairn 41
John Gillies 37
Anna Seward 36
George Chalmers 36
Hannah More 36
Thomas Mortimer 36
Horace Walpole 33
Thomas Campbell 33
John Hawkesworth 32
William Rutherford 31
Arthur Edmondston 30
Edmund Burke 30
Joseph Weber 29
Plutarch 29
Edward Nares 28
Alexander Ranken 27
Edward Daniel Clarke 26
Alexander von Humboldt 24
Baron Horatio Walpole 24
Madame Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël 24
William Cobbett 23
Lucy Hutchinson 22
Robert Brown 22
John Richard Green 21
Johann Caspar Lavater 19
Royal College of Physicians of London 19
Philip Doddridge 17
James Scott Senior Minister of Perth 16
Jane Austen 16
John Jamieson 16
James Playfair 15
Anne Grant of Laggan 14
Johann Lorenz Mosheim 14
Comte Alexandre Laborde 13
Gotthilf Theodor von Faber 13
Sir Charles William Pasley 13
Alexander Henderson 12
John Malcolm 12
Abū Ṭālib Khān 11
Alexander Brodie 11
Edward Mangin 11
George Crabbe 11
James Macdonald 11
John Bigland 11
Martin M'Dermot 11
Samuel William Ryley 11
William Greenfield 11
Arthur Aikin 10
Elizabeth Carter 10
Emma De Lise 10
Robert Southey 10
S. Gener 10
William Aiton 10
William Laurence Brown 10
William Mudford 10
Daniel Defoe 9
George Steuart Mackenzie 9
Henry Mackenzie 9
Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine 9
Miss Margaret Holford 8
David Irving 7
Sir John Sinclair 7
William Mitford 7
William Paley 7
Hector Macneill 6
John Bernard Trotter 6
Joseph Finlayson 6
William Hamilton 6
Baron Edward Herbert of Cherbury 5
George Annesley Earl of Mountnorris; Viscount Valentia 5
John Murray 5
John Pinkerton 5
Pierre Louis Ginguené 5
Samuel Richardson 5
Amelia Alderson Opie 4
Buchan Agricultural Society 4
David Carey 4
Elizabeth Hamilton 4
James Arbuthnot 4

Book Work

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
Scottish Chiefs, A Romance 369
British Tourists; or, Traveller's Pocket Companion through England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland 155
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
Tales of Fashionable Life 130
New Annual Register 126
Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett 113
Eclectic Review 98
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal 73
Self Control 67
Lives of the Most Eminent British Naval Heroes 64
Christian Researches in Asia; with Notices of the Translation of the Scriptures into the Oriental Languages 63
General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels [Kerr] 63
Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress 61
Edinburgh Annual Register 56
Moral Tales for Young People 55
Theological Discourses on Important Subjects, Doctrinal and Practical 54
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border 50
Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr Benjamin Franklin 48
Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in Spain, Commanded by Sir John Moore 46
Plays on the Passions 46
John De Lancaster. A Novel 44
History of the Reformation in Scotland [George Cook] 43
Lectures upon Our Lord's Sermon on the Mount 43
Marmion; A Tale of Flodden Field 43
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind 41
Sermons [Robert Foote] 41
Self-Control: A Novel 40
History of Ancient Greece, its Colonies and Conquests 37
British Plutarch 36
Caledonia: or, An Account, Historical and Topographic, of North Britain 36
Coelebs in Search of a Wife 36
Letters of Anna Seward written between the Years 1784 and 1807 36
Castle of Otranto 33
Monthly Magazine and British Register 33
Account of the Voyages undertaken by the Order of His present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere 32
Poems [Thomas Campbell] 32
View of Antient History 31
View of the Ancient and Present State of the Zetland Islands 30
Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke 30
Lay of the Last Minstrel, a Poem 29
Lives [Plutarch] 29
Memoirs of Maria Antoinetta, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of France and Navarre 29
Thinks-I-to-Myself. A Serio-Ludicro, Tragico-Comico Tale, written by Think's-I-to-Myself, Who? 28
History of France [Alexander Ranken] 27
Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine 26
Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa 26
Delphine 24
Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain 24
Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford 24
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson 22
Treatise on Rural Affairs; Being the Substance of the Article Agriculture, Originally Published in the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 22
History of the Political Life of William Pitt 21
Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind 19
Medical Transactions, Published by the College of Physicians in London 19
Remarkable Passages in the Life of the Honourable Colonel James Gardiner 17
Historical Account of the Ancient Culdees of Iona, and of their Settlements in Scotland, England, and Ireland 16
History of the Lives of the Protestant Reformers in Scotland 16
Philosophical Essays [Dugald Stewart] 16
Sense and Sensibility: A Novel 16
System of Geography, Ancient and Modern 15
Ecclesiastical History [Johann Lorenz Mosheim] 14
Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland 14
Asiatick Researches; or, Transactions of the Society, instituted in Bengal 13
Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions of the British Empire 13
Sketches of the Internal State of France 13
View of Spain 13
Account of the Life and Character of Alexander Adam 12
New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature 12
Sketch of the Political History of India: from the Introduction of Mr Pitt's Bill, A.D. 1784, to the Present Date 12
Essays on the Sources of the Pleasures Received from Literary Compositions 11
History of the Roman Government 11
Itinerant, or Memoirs of an Actor 11
Spirit of the Public Journals 11
Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan, in Asia, Africa, and Europe 11
Annual Review and History of Literature 10
Borough: A Poem 10
British Critic 10
Nubilia in Search of a Husband; Including Sketches of Modern Society 10
Ora and Juliet 10
Philemon; or, The Progress of Virtue; A Poem 10
Series of Letters between Mrs Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot from the year 1741 to 1770 10
Translations of M. Gener, being a Selection of Letters on Life and Manners 10
Travels through Denmark, and a Part of Sweden 10
Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings 9
Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates 9
Geographical and Historical View of the World 9
Novels of Daniel Defoe 9
Speeches ... When at the Bar, on Subjects Connected with the Liberty of the Press 9
Treatise on the Origin, Qualities and Cultivation of Moss-earth 9
History of Brazil 8
Wallace [Holford] 8
Account of the Systems of Husbandry Adopted in the More Improved Districts of Scotland 7

Book language

English 7365
French 76
Latin 14
German 10
Greek 9
Italian 9
Icelandic 1
Spanish 1

Book place of publication

London 4246
Edinburgh 3231
Paris 71
Cambridge 69
Leith 67
Paisley 55
Aberdeen 42
Belfast 36
Ayr 9
Inverness 9
Leipzig 8
Glasgow 6
Philadelphia 5
Berlin 4
Chichester 4
Pwllpeiran 4
Calcutta 3
Dublin 3
Göttingen 3
Milan 3
Florence 2
Hafod 2
Padua 2
Tübingen 2
Utrecht 2
Bristol 1
Copenhagen 1
Cork 1
Frankfurt am Main 1
Halle 1
Hamburg 1
Hanover 1
Königsberg 1
Leiden 1
Madrid 1
Oxford 1
Siena 1
Sunderland 1
Verona 1
Zurich 1

Book format

8vo 4389
12mo 1038
4to 516
folio 405

Genre

Periodicals 3187
Fiction 1126
Theology 959
History 543
Lives 487
Reference Works 442
Travel 391
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 356
Poetry 354
Belles Lettres 154
Philosophy and Morality 146
Politics, Society and Political Economy 104
Natural Philosophy 79
Education 60
Drama 57
Sermons 51
Law 29
Medicine 27
Fine Arts 6
Mathematics 4

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