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Glasgow University Library 2343
St Andrews University Library 2272
Edinburgh University Library 1234
Advocates Library 597
Innerpeffray Library 489
Royal High School of Edinburgh 423
Westerkirk 411
Dumfries Presbytery Library 358
Selkirk Library 354
Leighton Library 302
Aberdeen Theological Library 166
Orkney Library 63
Craigston Castle Library 55
Haddington Library 33
Hunterian Museum Library 24
Wigtown Subscription Library 14
Chambers' Circulating Library 3
Inverness Kirk Sessions Library 2

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Mr 1053
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Dr 166
Reverend 101
Professor 81
Sir 43
Lieutenant 42
Mrs 41
Captain 35
Principal 31
Miss 26
Reverend Dr 12
Major 7
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Prof. 2
Rev. 2
Ensign 1
Ms 1
Right Honourable 1

Borrower gender

Male 9033
Female 98
Unknown 2
Unclear 1

Borrower occupation

Education 6448
University Student 4922
University Professor 1407
Religion and Clergy 1183
Minister/Priest 1157
Church of Scotland 1098
Law 657
Advocate 631
School Child 404
Arts and Letters 158
Military 146
Chaplain 142
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 125
Sheriff 119
Independent Means 116
Prisoner of War 115
Author 98
Medicine and Health 92
Agricultural 83
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 80
Surgeon 73
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Politics/Office Holders 65
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Commerce, Trade, and Finance 40
Domestic Service 38
Indoor Servants 38
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Merchants/Traders 32
School Master/Dominie 29
Lay Preacher 22
Physician 22
Advocate Depute 20
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 20
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Teacher 18
Writer/Procurator 17
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Episcopalian 13
Miscellaneous 12
Notaries/Clerks 11
Curator 10
Navy 10
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 10
Baron of the Exchequer 9
Barrister 9
Construction 9
Engineer 9
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Writer to the Signet (WS) 9
Solicitor-General 7
Tax Collector 7
Advocate’s Clerk 6
Widow 6
Wife/Spouse 6
Factor/Agent 5
Officer 5
Tanner/Currier 5
Customs Collector 4
Dyer 4
Retailer/Shopkeeper 4
Banker 3
Mason/Miller 3
Accountant 2
Brewer 2
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 2
Publishers 2
Service Provision and Hospitality 2
Tutor 2
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 1
Clerk 1
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Lord Justice Clerk 1
Lord Provost/Provost 1
Mariner 1
Mill Owner 1
Painter/Limner 1
Secretary of State 1
Ships Owner 1
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 1

Author

Francis Hutcheson 364
David Hume 304
Samuel Richardson 297
William Shakespeare 264
Charles Rollin 220
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon 170
Robert Traill 148
Henry St John Viscount Bolingbroke 145
Eliza Fowler Haywood 126
James Lind 120
Edinburgh Philosophical Society 116
Jean-Baptiste Massillon 113
Royal Society (Great Britain) 103
Jean le Rond d' Alembert 96
Denis Diderot 95
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (France) 83
Thomas Sherlock 83
Voltaire 83
William Melmoth 83
Jonathan Swift 81
Donald Monro 78
Samuel Clarke 75
Sir William Temple 75
Nathaniel Hooke 74
Philosophical Society of Edinburgh 74
William Cheselden 74
Archibald Bower 70
Philip Doddridge 70
Nathaniel Lardner 69
John Campbell 67
Tobias George Smollett 65
Jacques Saurin 62
Académie royale des sciences et belles lettres (Berlin, Germany) 61
John Leland 60
James Hervey 59
Euclid 54
Ferdinando Warner 54
Dr Samuel Johnson 53
Edward Burt 47
Herman Boerhaave 45
Percivall Pott 45
Marcus Tullius Cicero 42
William Congreve 42
David Moysie 41
Ben Jonson 40
Pietro Metastasio 39
William Warburton 39
James Foster 37
Henry Grove 36
James Burgh 36
William Maitland 36
Jonas Hanway 35
George Young M. D. 34
James Barclay 32
Joseph Addison 32
Sir Richard Steele 32
Thomas Blackwell 32
Johannes de Gorter 30
Matthew Bacon 30
Thomas Newton Bishop of Bristol 30
Alexander Gordon 29
François Gayot de Pitaval 29
Noël Antoine Pluche 29
William Hogarth 29
Abbé Prévost 28
Isaac Watts 28
Andrew MacDowall Lord Bankton 27
Conyers Middleton 27
Robert Wallace 27
Charles Viner 26
James Thomson 26
Johann Lorenz Mosheim 26
John Hill 26
John Sharp 26
Polybius 26
Clifton Wintringham 25
John Taylor 25
Daniel Neal 24
James Ferguson 24
Molière 24
Arrigo Caterino Davila 23
Country Gentleman 23
Daniel Macqueen 23
Linnaeus 23
Colin MacLaurin 22
James Balfour 22
John Evans 22
William Smellie 22
John Erskine 21
John Milton 21
Joseph Spence 21
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus 21
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis 21
Samuel Johnson 21
Thomas Carte 21
Aulay Macaulay 20
Longinus 20
Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen 19
John Swinton Lord Swinton 19
Alexander Drummond 18

Book Work

Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time to the Present 848
System of Moral Philosophy [Francis Hutcheson] 364
History of Sir Charles Grandison 295
Works of William Shakespeare 264
Roman History from the Foundation of Rome to the Battle of Actium [Charles Rollin] 220
History of England [David Hume] 200
Monthly Review. A Periodical Work, Giving an Account ... of, and Extracts from, the New Books, Pamphlets, &c. 199
Scots Magazine 185
Natural History, General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon 170
Works of the Late Reverend Robert Traill 148
Biographia Britannica: or, the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons who have Flourished in Great Britain and Ireland 126
Treatise on the Scurvy 118
Essays and Observations, Physical and Literary 116
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 116
Sermons of Jean-Baptiste Massillon 113
Philosophical Transactions: Giving some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World 103
Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers 95
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
Invisible Spy 83
Several Discourses Preached at the Temple Church [Thomas Sherlock] 83
Works of Jonathan Swift 81
Essay on the Dropsy and its Different Species 78
Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects 77
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres 76
Sermons on Several Subjects and Occasions [Samuel Clarke] 75
Works of Sir William Temple 75
Anatomy of the Human Body [William Cheselden] 74
Medical Essays and Observations [Philosophical Society of Edinburgh] 74
Roman History, from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth 74
Family Expositor 70
History of the Popes, from the Foundation of the See of Rome, to the Present Time 70
Credibility of the Gospel History 69
Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 65
Sermons sur Divers Textes de l'Écriture Sainte 62
Histoire de l'Acádemie Royale des Sciences et des Belles Lettres de Berlin 61
Lives of the Admirals and Other Eminent British Seamen 61
Letters on the Study and Use of History 59
Theron and Aspasio: or, A Series of Dialogues and Letters 59
Elements of Geometry [Euclid] 54
System of Divinity and Morality 54
Discourses Preached on Several Occasions [Thomas Sherlock] 52
Philosophical Works of Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke 52
View of the Principal Deistical Writers 52
Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to his Friend in London 47
Letters of Sir Thomas Fitzosborne, on Several Subjects 46
New Method of Chemistry 45
Treatise on Ruptures 44
Works of William Congreve 42
Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland [David Moysie] 41
History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy 40
Works of Ben Jonson 40
Poesie del Signor Abate Pietro Metastasio 39
Discourses on All the Principal Branches of Natural Religion and Social Virtue 37
Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero to Several of his Friends: with Remarks by William Melmoth 37
Dignity of Human Nature. Or, A Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for Attaining the True End of Our Existence 36
System of Moral Philosophy [Henry Grove] 36
Age of Louis XIV 35
Historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea 34
History of Edinburgh from its Foundation to the Present Time 34
Treatise on Opium 34
Greek Rudiments 32
Memoirs of the Court of Augustus 32
Spectator 32
Works of Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke 31
Dissertations on the Prophecies, Which have Remarkably Been Fulfilled, and at this Time are Fulfilling in the World 30
Medicina Hippocratica exponens Aphorismos Hippocratis 30
New Abridgment of the Law 30
Analysis of Beauty. Written with a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste 29
Causes Célèbres et Intéressantes avec les Jugemens qui les ont Decidées 29
History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia 29
History of the Heavens, Considered According to the Notions of the Poets and Philosophers, Compared with the Doctrines of Moses 29
Bible - New Testament [Greek] 28
Histoire Générale des Voyages 28
Dictionary of the English Language 27
Dissertation on the Numbers of Mankind in Antient and Modern Times 27
Institute of the Law of Scotland in Civil Rights 27
Political Discourses 27
Works of Isaac Watts 27
Works of Voltaire 27
General Abridgment of Law and Equity 26
Histories [Polybius] 26
Rambler 26
Works of James Thomson 26
Works of the Most Reverend Dr John Sharp 26
Works of the Late Clifton Wintringham, Physician at York 25
Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles 24
History of the Puritans [Daniel Neal] 24
Works of Molière 24
Country Gentleman's Companion 23
History of the Civil Wars of France 23
Letters on Mr Hume's History of Great Britain 23
Modern Characters: Illustrated by Histories in Real Life, and Address'd to the Polite World 23
Delineation of the Nature and Obligation of Morality 22
General Natural History 22
Practical Discourses Concerning the Christian Temper 22
Treatise of Algebra [Colin MacLaurin] 22
Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery 22
De Institutione Oratoria [Marcus Fabius Quintilianus] 21
Elements of Philosophy [Samuel Johnson] 21
General History of England [Thomas Carte] 21

Book language

English 7595
French 1139
Latin 360
Italian 103
Greek 84
Hebrew 2
Spanish 2

Book place of publication

London 5343
Edinburgh 1788
Paris 714
Glasgow 467
The Hague 131
Amsterdam 108
Neuchâtel 95
Dublin 65
Berlin 61
Göttingen 36
Leipzig 36
Lyon 34
Oxford 34
Aberdeen 30
Leiden 27
Aldershot 26
Helmstedt 26
Cambridge 25
Geneva 22
Dresden 17
Stockholm 13
Frankfurt am Main 11
Venice 11
Vienna 11
Copenhagen 10
Lausanne 10
Florence 8
Utrecht 7
Whitehaven 7
Hamburg 6
Rome 5
St Petersburg 4
Boston, MA 3
Zurich 3
Berwick 2
Besançon 2
Frankfurt an der Oder 2
Madrid 2
unknown 2
Amiens 1
Anvers 1
Bologna 1
Brescia 1
Brussels 1
Colmar 1
Jena 1
Lindau 1
Milan 1
Naples 1
Padua 1
Strasbourg 1
Turin 1

Book format

8vo 4307
4to 2169
12mo 1875
folio 695

Genre

History 2277
Periodicals 975
Philosophy and Morality 872
Theology 798
Sermons 687
Medicine 668
Lives 622
Natural Philosophy 601
Poetry 541
Fiction 531
Belles Lettres 501
Drama 372
Law 227
Travel 227
Politics, Society and Political Economy 194
Reference Works 194
Education 186
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 147
Mathematics 126
Fine Arts 75

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