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Library

Orkney Library 2326
Westerkirk 784
Selkirk Library 665
Wigtown Subscription Library 496
Leighton Library 427
Advocates Library 370
Chambers' Circulating Library 156
Royal High School of Edinburgh 117
Innerpeffray Library 108
Edinburgh University Library 62
St Andrews University Library 17
Craigston Castle Library 10
Glasgow University Library 8
Hunterian Museum Library 5

Borrower title

Mr 1925
Reverend Mr 1015
Captain 290
Dr 260
Mrs 164
Miss 81
Lieutenant 69
Reverend 62
Reverend Dr 28
Sir 26
Lady 19
Major 10
Corporal 7
Brigadier General 5
Colonel 4
Professor 4
Right Honourable 4
Sous-Lieutenant 4
Sous Lieutenant 3
Honourable Mrs 2
Mrs General 2
Midshipman 1
Mrs Captain 1
Professor Sir 1

Borrower gender

Male 5266
Female 273
Unknown 8
Unclear 4

Borrower occupation

Religion and Clergy 854
Minister/Priest 851
Church of Scotland 688
Law 683
Independent Means 555
Military 400
Advocate 375
Education 362
Gentleman 361
Medicine and Health 294
Navy 242
Writer/Procurator 242
Politics/Office Holders 240
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 196
Surgeon 175
Arts and Letters 150
University Student 139
Agricultural 136
Prisoner of War 126
School Child 119
Physician 117
Unknown denomination 117
Author 115
Sheriff 111
Customs Collector 107
Farmer 107
Tenant 101
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 93
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 78
Tax Collector 63
Merchants/Traders 55
School Master/Dominie 50
Presbyterian Seceder 43
University Professor 42
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 37
Army 35
Miscellaneous 33
Wife/Spouse 33
Notaries/Clerks 32
Advocate Depute 31
MP (Britain) 29
Mariner 29
Ships Owner 29
Dean of Faculty 28
Lord Provost/Provost 28
Barrister 24
Librarian 24
Tanner/Currier 23
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 21
Poet 21
Booksellers 19
Print and Book Trade 19
Construction 17
Land Manager/Factor 17
Banker 16
Bookbinder 16
Architect 13
Clerk of Session 13
Teacher 11
Factor/Agent 10
Mason/Miller 10
Watchmaker 9
Baillie 8
Clerks 8
Surveyor 8
Writer to the Signet (WS) 8
Accountant 7
Judge 7
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 7
Dyer 6
Distiller 5
Service Provision and Hospitality 5
Solicitor-General 5
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 4
Officer 4
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 3
Baron of the Exchequer 3
Engineer 3
Publishers 3
Chaplain 2
Druggist/Chemist/Apothecary 2
Lay Preacher 2
Lord Advocate 2
Lord Justice Clerk 2
Lord President 2
Messenger-at-arms 2
Tutor 2
Builder 1
Mill Owner 1

Author

David Brewster 397
William Robertson 153
Maria Edgeworth 130
John Knox 95
Thomas McCrie 95
Henry Fielding 66
Sarah Harriet Burney 48
Joanna Baillie 46
Mary Brunton 46
Dugald Stewart 41
George Chalmers 36
Vicomte François-René de Chateaubriand 33
William Cowper 32
William Hayley 32
Edmund Burke 30
John Graham Dalyell 29
Joseph Weber 29
Alexander Ranken 27
Edward Daniel Clarke 26
Baron Horatio Walpole 24
William Cobbett 23
Jane Porter 22
William Paley 22
Thomas Campbell 21
Hector Macneill 20
Royal College of Physicians of London 19
Hugo Arnot 17
Claudius Buchanan 15
James Playfair 15
Patrick Graham Minister of Aberfoyle 15
Francis L, Clarke 14
George Gordon Byron Lord Byron 13
James Beattie 12
Samuel William Ryley 11
Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine 11
Margravine Wilhelmine Consort of Friedrich, Margrave of Bayreuth 10
S. Gener 10
John Wilson 'Christopher North' 9
Beatrice Grant 8
Robert Southey 8
Alexander Chalmers 7
Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia, consort of William V, Prince of Orange 7
William Mitford 7
John Campbell 6
Alexander Crombie 5
Anthony Frederick Holstein 5
James Grahame 5
John Johnstone 5
John Pinkerton 5
Pierre Louis Ginguené 5
Samuel Horsley 5
Aeschylus 4
Anthony Hamilton 4
Jean Froissart 4
Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de Sismondi 4
John Galt 4
Mark Wilks 4
Jean Charles Dominique de Lacretelle 3
Adam Smith 3
Alexander Wilson 3
Edward Wakefield 3
Freiherr Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué 3
George Shaw 3
James Justinian Morier 3
John Nichols 3
John Somers Baron Somers 3
Maria Graham Lady Callcott 3
Mrs Elizabeth Meeke 3
Thomas Amyot 3
William Beloe 3
William Windham 3
Académie Royale des sciences (Paris) Académie des sciences (Paris) 2
Alban Butler 2
Denis Diderot 2
Friedrich Bouterwek 2
Friedrich Melchior Grimm 2
Girolamo Tiraboschi 2
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 2
Great Britain Board of Agriculture 2
Hinrich Lichtenstein 2
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 2
Marquis Pierre Simon de Laplace 2
Pietro Metastasio 2
Sir Robert Ainslie 2
Thomas Brydson 2
William Singer 2
Abraham Rees 1
Accademia Della Scienze Di Siena Detta De'Fisiocritica 1
Apuleius 1
Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren 1
Christian Gottlob Heyne 1
Dominique Jean Larrey 1
Emanuel Swedenborg 1
Euripides 1
Filippo Baldinucci 1
Friedrich Maximilian Klinger 1
George Colman 1
Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus 1
Henry Maddock 1
Henry Thomas Kitchener 1

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
Bible 289
Works of William Robertson 153
Tales of Fashionable Life 130
New Annual Register 126
Eclectic Review 98
Life of John Knox ... To which is Subjoined an Appendix Consisting of Letters 95
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal 73
Select Works of Henry Fielding 66
Edinburgh Annual Register 56
Traits of Nature 48
Plays on the Passions 46
Self-Control: A Novel 46
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind 41
Caledonia: or, An Account, Historical and Topographic, of North Britain 36
Monthly Magazine and British Register 33
Travels in Greece, Palestine, Egypt, and Barbary, during the Years 1806 and 1807 33
Life and Posthumous Writings [chiefly Letters] of William Cowper 32
Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke 30
Memoirs of Maria Antoinetta, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of France and Navarre 29
Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea 29
History of France [Alexander Ranken] 27
Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa 26
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry 25
Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect [Peter Forbes] 24
Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford 24
Thaddeus of Warsaw 22
Scottish Adventurers, or, The Way to Rise; An Historical Tale 20
Medical Transactions, Published by the College of Physicians in London 19
Collection and Abridgement of Celebrated Criminal Trials in Scotland 17
Christian Researches in Asia; with Notices of the Translation of the Scriptures into the Oriental Languages 15
Gertrude of Wyoming, and Other Poems 15
Sketches of Perthshire 15
System of Geography, Ancient and Modern 15
Life of the Most Noble Arthur Marquis and Earl of Wellington 14
Asiatick Researches; or, Transactions of the Society, instituted in Bengal 13
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 13
An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth 12
New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature 12
Horae Paulinae, or The Truth of the Scripture History of St Paul Evinced 11
Itinerant, or Memoirs of an Actor 11
Sermons of William Paley 11
Spirit of the Public Journals 11
British Critic 10
Mémoires de Frédérique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse 10
Translations of M. Gener, being a Selection of Letters on Life and Manners 10
Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings 9
Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates 9
Isle of Palms, and Other Poems 9
Speeches ... When at the Bar, on Subjects Connected with the Liberty of the Press 9
History of Brazil 8
Sketches of intellectual education, and hints on domestic economy, addressed to inexperienced mothers 8
General Biographical Dictionary 7
History of Greece [William Mitford] 7
Memoirs of Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia 7
Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester 7
Curiosities of Literature 6
Lives of the Admirals and Other Eminent British Seamen 6
Pleasures of Hope 6
An English Collection 5
Bouverie, the Pupil of the World 5
British Georgics 5
Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England 5
General Collection of the Best and most Interesting Voyages and Travels in all Parts of the World 5
Gymnasium, sive Symbola Critica 5
Histoire Littéraire d'Italie 5
Philosophical Magazine. Comprehending the Various Branches of Science, the Liberal and Fine Arts, Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce 5
Tracts in Controversy with Dr Priestley upon the Historical Question of the Belief of the First Ages in our Lord's Divinity 5
Annals of Agriculture, and other Useful Arts 4
Chronicles of Jean Froissart 4
Gentleman's Magazine 4
Histoire des Républiques Italiennes du Moyen Âge 4
Historical Sketches of the South of India 4
Oeuvres du Comte Anthony Hamilton 4
Voyages and Travels in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811 4
Account of Ireland, Statistical and Political 3
American Ornithology, or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States 3
Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books 3
Annales de Chimie 3
Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts 3
Histoire de France Pendant le Dix-Huitième Siècle 3
Journal of a Residence in India 3
Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the Years 1808 and 1809 3
Kleine Romane [Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué] 3
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century 3
Matrimony, the Height of Bliss, or the Extreme of Misery 3
Prize Essays and Transactions of the Highland Society of Scotland 3
Speeches in Parliament of the Right Hon. William Windham; to which is Prefixed some Account of his Life 3
Sporting Magazine 3
Theory of Moral Sentiments 3
Tragedies of Aeschylus 3
Anthologia Graeca cum Versione Latina Hugonis Grotii 2
Aus Meinem Leben. Dichtung und Wahrheit 2
Beauties of England and Wales; or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each Country 2
Biographie Universelle, Ancienne et Moderne 2

Book language

English 5464
French 52
Latin 13
German 11
Italian 7
Greek 5
Icelandic 1
Spanish 1

Book place of publication

London 3169
Edinburgh 2587
Paris 40
Glasgow 17
Inverness 8
Berlin 6
Cambridge 5
Dundee 5
Dunfermline 5
Calcutta 3
Göttingen 3
Philadelphia 3
Florence 2
Padua 2
Tübingen 2
Utrecht 2
Bath 1
Copenhagen 1
Dublin 1
Frankfurt am Main 1
Hackney 1
Halle 1
Königsberg 1
Leiden 1
Leipzig 1
Madrid 1
Milan 1
Siena 1
Verona 1

Book format

8vo 3212
4to 531
folio 401
12mo 287

Genre

Periodicals 3158
Theology 909
Reference Works 445
Fiction 362
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 299
History 273
Lives 234
Travel 126
Poetry 106
Belles Lettres 94
Philosophy and Morality 88
Drama 57
Law 38
Natural Philosophy 36
Politics, Society and Political Economy 34
Medicine 23
Education 14
Sermons 11
Fine Arts 4
Mathematics 3

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