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Library

Edinburgh University Library 3380
St Andrews University Library 2077
Royal High School of Edinburgh 1600
Glasgow University Library 1083
Selkirk Library 1019
Advocates Library 807
Leighton Library 632
Haddington Library 528
Innerpeffray Library 499
Westerkirk 269
Aberdeen Theological Library 234
Craigston Castle Library 126
Wigtown Subscription Library 91
Orkney Library 67
Dumfries Presbytery Library 66
Hunterian Museum Library 32
Chambers' Circulating Library 12

Borrower title

Mr 1798
Reverend Mr 493
Dr 167
Sir 76
Lieutenant 74
Captain 65
Reverend 60
Miss 51
Professor 50
Mrs 48
Reverend Dr 17
Principal 14
Midshipman 10
Lady 7
Colonel 6
Corporal 6
Major 5
Sous Lieutenant 5
Brigadier General 3
Rev. 2
Sous-Lieutenant 2
Adjudant Major 1
Bishop 1
Rev Mr 1
Rev. Mr 1
Right Honourable 1

Borrower gender

Male 12343
Female 146
Unknown 16
Unclear 9

Borrower occupation

Education 8423
University Student 6070
School Child 1555
University Professor 937
Law 904
Religion and Clergy 886
Minister/Priest 850
Advocate 793
Church of Scotland 781
Military 278
Prisoner of War 250
Medicine and Health 212
Arts and Letters 205
Agricultural 203
Sheriff 195
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 192
Surgeon 175
Independent Means 163
Author 162
Tenant 156
Farmer 137
Politics/Office Holders 112
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 95
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 89
MP (Britain) 81
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 78
Chaplain 71
Dean of Faculty 71
Gentleman 68
Merchants/Traders 64
Writer/Procurator 61
Presbyterian Seceder 56
Print and Book Trade 55
Printers 53
School Master/Dominie 52
Teacher 50
Physician 41
Notaries/Clerks 33
Clerk of Session 31
Lord President 27
Advocate Depute 22
Service Provision and Hospitality 22
Judge 21
Curator 20
Librarian 20
Clerks 19
Lord Advocate 19
Factor/Agent 17
Lay Preacher 16
Banker 15
Miscellaneous 15
Officer 15
Retailer/Shopkeeper 15
Writer to the Signet (WS) 15
Tanner/Currier 14
Army 12
Baron of the Exchequer 12
Grocer 12
Navy 12
Wife/Spouse 12
Mason/Miller 11
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 11
Baillie 10
Construction 10
Customs Collector 9
Barrister 8
Clerk 8
Dyer 8
Provost 8
Episcopalian 7
Land Manager/Factor 7
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 7
Watchmaker 7
Architect 6
Brewer 6
Solicitor-General 5
Accountant 4
Advocate’s Clerk 4
Booksellers 4
Engineer 4
Innkeeper/Tavernkeeper 4
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 4
Publishers 4
Bishop 3
Gardener 3
Poet 3
Widow 3
Active Service/Soldiers 2
Lord Provost/Provost 2
Mariner 2
Painter/Limner 2
Privateer 2
Shoemaker 2
Tax Collector 2
Tutor 2
Unknown denomination 2
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 1
Bookbinder 1
Domestic Service 1
Glover 1

Author

William Robertson 681
Oliver Goldsmith 421
William Guthrie 373
Nathaniel Hooke 365
Robert Henry 243
Abbé René Aubert de Vertot 213
Henry Brooke 176
Charles de Brosses 172
Thomas Secker 165
Plutarch 163
Samuel Richardson 133
Arthur Young 117
Daniel Defoe 117
Edinburgh Philosophical Society 116
George Cleghorn 115
Baron Albrecht von Haller 110
Percivall Pott 105
Royal Society (Great Britain) 103
Charles Rollin 102
George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton 102
James Beattie 102
Jean le Rond d' Alembert 101
Robert Dodsley 101
Tobias George Smollett 98
Adam Ferguson 97
Denis Diderot 96
John Jortin 96
James Ferguson 95
James Lind 93
Alexander Monro 91
Alexander Pope 91
David Hume 91
Giuseppe Baretti 89
William Smellie 86
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (France) 83
James Boswell 83
Pons Augustin Alletz 77
Sir John Dalrymple 74
Catherine Macaulay 72
David Macbride 72
William Hewson 72
John Brown 71
Henri-Franc̦ois Le Dran 69
John Huxham 68
Cornelius Tacitus 66
John Toland 66
Académie royale des sciences et belles lettres (Berlin, Germany) 65
Benjamin Martin 65
Henry Fielding 65
Henry Mackenzie 63
Frances Brooke 62
John Campbell 61
Laurence Sterne 61
Andrew Duncan 60
Joseph Addison 59
Voltaire 59
Muḥammad Qāsim Hindū Shāh Astarābādī Firishtah 52
Adam Fitz-Adam 51
Robert Whytt 51
William Lewis 51
John Stedman 48
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon 47
John Gregory 47
Junius 47
Giovanni Paolo Marana 45
Jonathan Swift 45
Samuel Sharp 44
François Boissier de la Croix de Sauvages 43
John Leland 43
Johann Georg Zimmermann 42
James Harris 41
Pierre Henri Treyssac de Vergy 41
Sir William Blackstone 41
Virgil 40
Helen Williams 39
James Maclurg 39
John Aikin 39
Pietro Metastasio 39
Samuel Chandler 39
Thomas Pennant 39
Thomas Reid 39
Anton de Haen 37
Charles Alston 37
Elizabeth Griffith 37
Lorenz Heister 37
Henry Manning M. D. 36
Freiherr von Jacob Friedrich Bielfeld 35
Pehr Osbeck 33
Samuel Stennett 33
Benjamin Franklin 32
William Buchan 32
Joseph Priestley 31
Sir Richard Steele 31
Thomas Sheridan 31
Edmund Burke 30
Francis Hutcheson 30
William Shakespeare 30
Abbé Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal 29
Charles White 29
François Gayot de Pitaval 29

Book Work

History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V 675
Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 500
Roman History, from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth 365
General History of Scotland [William Guthrie] 304
Dr Goldsmith's Roman History abridged by Himself for the Use of Schools 246
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 243
History of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem, styled afterwards, the Knights of Rhodes, and at present, the Knights of Malta 207
Monthly Review. A Periodical Work, Giving an Account ... of, and Extracts from, the New Books, Pamphlets, &c. 199
Scots Magazine 185
Fool of Quality, or, The History of Henry Earl of Moreland 176
Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes 172
Lives [Plutarch] 163
Sermons on Several Subjects [Thomas Secker] 134
Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain 117
Essays and Observations, Physical and Literary 116
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 115
Observations on the Epidemical Diseases in Minorca 115
Haller's Physiology 106
Philosophical Transactions: Giving some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World 103
Preceptor: Containing A General Course of Education 101
Essay on the History of Civil Society 97
History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Death of George II 97
Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers 95
Expedition of Humphry Clinker 94
Essay on Diseases Incidental to Europeans in Hot Climates 93
Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism 93
History of the Life of King Henry the Second 92
Works of Alexander Pope 91
Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians 90
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery 86
Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli 83
Journey from London to Genoa, through England, Portugal, Spain, and France 81
History of England [David Hume] 79
De Venis Lymphaticis Valvulosis 78
Roman History from the Foundation of the City of Rome, to the Destruction of the Western Empire 77
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres 76
History of Ancient Greece; from the Earliest Times, till it Became a Roman Province [Pons Augustin Alletz] 75
Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland from the Dissolution of the Last Parliament of Charles II until the Sea-Battle off La Hogue 74
History of England [Catherine Macaulay] 72
Methodical Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Physic 72
New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar 69
Operations in Surgery of Henri-Franc̦ois Le Dran 69
Essay on Fevers to which is now added, A Dissertation on the Malignant, Ulcerous Sore-throat 68
Van Swieten's Commentaries Abridged 66
Works of Tacitus 66
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 65
Philosophia Britannica 64
Man of Feeling 63
History of Emily Montague 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
Sermons on Different Subjects [John Jortin] 61
Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles 60
Observations on the Operation and Use of Mercury in the Venereal Disease 60
Dictionary of the Holy Bible 56
History of Hindostan; from the Earliest Account of Time, to the Death of Akbar 52
Experimental History of the Materia Medica 51
Works of Robert Whytt 51
World 51
Experimental Inquiry into the Properties of the Blood 48
Physiological Essays and Observations [John Stedman] 48
Letters of Junius 47
Observations on the Duties and Offices of a Physician 47
Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy 45
Works of Jonathan Swift 45
Chinese Traveller 44
Treatise on the Operations of Surgery 44
Works of Voltaire 44
Nosologia Methodica [François Boissier de la Croix de Sauvages] 43
Commentaries on the Laws of England 41
Natural History, General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon 41
Works of Virgil 40
Anecdotes of a Convent 39
Experiments upon the Human Bile 39
Inquiry into the Human Mind, on the Principles of Common Sense 39
Poesie del Signor Abate Pietro Metastasio 39
Sermons on the Following Subjects [Samuel Chandler] 39
Advantage and Necessity of the Christian Revelation 38
General System of Surgery 37
History of Lady Barton, a Novel 37
Lectures on the Materia Medica 37
Ratio Medendi in Nosocomio Practico Vindobonensi 37
Treatise on Female Diseases 36
Chirurgical Works of Percivall Pott 35
Hermes, or, A Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Universal Grammar 35
Elements of Universal Erudition 34
Six Months Tour through the North of England 34
Discourses on Personal Religion 33
Voyage to China and the East Indies, by Peter Osbeck 33
Works of Laurence Sterne 33
Domestic Medicine [William Buchan] 32
Experiments and Observations on Electricity, made at Philadelphia in America 32
Spectator 31
Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections 30
Medical Observations and Inquiries 30
Cases in Surgery, with Remarks ... To which is Added, an Essay on the Ligature of Arteries 29
Causes Célèbres et Intéressantes avec les Jugemens qui les ont Decidées 29
Farmer's Letters to the People of England 29
Histoire de France depuis l'établissement de la Monarchie jusqu'au Regne de Louis XIV 29

Book language

English 11246
French 826
Latin 393
Italian 62
Hebrew 19
Arabic 17
Greek 17
German 3
Swedish 3
Irish 1
Saami 1
Spanish 1

Book place of publication

London 9172
Edinburgh 1870
Paris 489
Glasgow 260
Neuchâtel 122
Amsterdam 111
Berlin 75
Geneva 73
Oxford 63
Dublin 56
The Hague 46
Vienna 40
Birmingham 31
Chester 31
Leipzig 30
Leiden 27
Aberdeen 11
Lyon 10
Cleves 8
Philadelphia 8
Göttingen 6
Rotterdam 6
St Petersburg 6
Stockholm 6
Venice 6
Dijon 5
Utrecht 5
Lausanne 4
Rome 4
Warrington 4
i.e. Edinburgh? 4
Frankfurt am Main 3
Manchester 3
Naples 3
Twickenham 3
Uppsala 3
unknown 3
Bath 2
Berwick 2
Bouillon 2
Bremen 2
Bristol 2
Cambridge 2
Copenhagen 2
Helmstadt 2
Livorno 2
Madrid 2
Padua 2
Pisa 2
Strasbourg 2
Turin 2
Verona 2
Avignon 1
Carmarthen 1
Florence 1
Jena 1
London? 1
Nuremberg 1
Parma 1
Siena 1
Trondheim 1
Wurzburg 1
Yverdon 1

Book format

8vo 6915
4to 2653
12mo 2631
folio 259
18mo 4

Genre

History 3486
Medicine 2202
Periodicals 1503
Travel 932
Fiction 744
Natural Philosophy 635
Lives 627
Education 543
Belles Lettres 467
Poetry 442
Philosophy and Morality 428
Sermons 420
Theology 410
Politics, Society and Political Economy 327
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 241
Law 235
Reference Works 224
Mathematics 91
Drama 64
Fine Arts 45
Miscellaneous/Other 4

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