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Library

Royal High School of Edinburgh 979
Selkirk Library 890
Westerkirk 739
Leighton Library 670
Advocates Library 536
Edinburgh University Library 476
Glasgow University Library 360
Aberdeen Theological Library 286
St Andrews University Library 248
Innerpeffray Library 188
Wigtown Subscription Library 98
Craigston Castle Library 30
Orkney Library 23
Dumfries Presbytery Library 14
Hunterian Museum Library 9
Chambers' Circulating Library 8

Borrower title

Mr 1327
Reverend Mr 441
Dr 83
Lieutenant 66
Sir 65
Captain 62
Mrs 54
Reverend 36
Miss 26
Reverend Dr 15
Midshipman 10
Right Honourable 8
Professor 6
Major 5
Prof. 5
Colonel 4
Corporal 4
Lady 4
Principal 4
Rev. 4
Sous Lieutenant 3
Lieutenant Colonel 2
Provost 2
Rev. Mr 2
Sous-Lieutenant 2
Brigadier General 1

Borrower gender

Male 5450
Female 97
Unknown 3
Unclear 2

Borrower occupation

Education 2329
University Student 1104
School Child 965
Law 628
Advocate 501
Religion and Clergy 406
Minister/Priest 395
Church of Scotland 342
University Professor 274
Military 238
Prisoner of War 225
Arts and Letters 147
Agricultural 146
Author 135
Independent Means 130
Sheriff 110
Tenant 110
Farmer 104
Medicine and Health 88
Surgeon 84
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 80
Writer/Procurator 79
Politics/Office Holders 78
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 74
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 63
MP (Britain) 59
Dean of Faculty 52
Notaries/Clerks 52
Gentleman 50
Presbyterian Seceder 50
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 44
Construction 31
Merchants/Traders 30
Tanner/Currier 27
Advocate Depute 24
Architect 23
School Master/Dominie 20
Judge 18
Clerk of Session 17
Mason/Miller 17
Banker 14
Baron of the Exchequer 13
Chaplain 13
Factor/Agent 13
Teacher 13
Barrister 12
Navy 12
Baillie 11
Clerks 11
Lay Preacher 11
Army 10
Lord Advocate 10
Print and Book Trade 9
Printers 9
Engineer 8
Retailer/Shopkeeper 8
Lord President 7
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 7
Writer to the Signet (WS) 7
Librarian 6
Poet 6
Customs Collector 5
Solicitor-General 5
Miscellaneous 4
Physician 4
Wife/Spouse 4
Curator 3
Land Manager/Factor 3
Officer 3
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 2
Dyer 2
Lord Provost/Provost 2
Mariner 2
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 2
Ships Captain 2
Advocate’s Clerk 1
Bishop 1
Booksellers 1
Brewer 1
Episcopalian 1
Gardener 1
Lord Justice Clerk 1
Mill Owner 1
Publishers 1
Service Provision and Hospitality 1
Surveyor 1
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 1
Tutor 1

Author

Doctor Henry Hunter 356
Hugh Blair 249
Robert Henry 243
James Cook 192
Richard Watson Bishop of Llandaff 134
Baron François Tott 117
Thomas Reid 111
James Boswell 98
Edward Gibbon 95
Anders Sparrman 92
Benjamin Bell 82
Tobias George Smollett 74
Ambrose Serle 73
John Macgowan 68
Mrs Anna Maria Bennett 67
James Burnet Lord Monboddo 60
Comte Antoine-François de Fourcroy 55
Voltaire 55
Richard Cumberland 54
William Coxe 54
William Cullen 52
Charles Johnstone 45
Sophia Lee 45
Hugo Arnot 36
Elizabeth Keir 32
Joseph White 30
Louis-Sébastien Mercier 29
William Paley 28
Elizabeth Blower 26
Gilbert Stuart 26
Vicesimus Knox 25
Andrew M'Donald 25
Richard Hurd 25
William Hayley 24
Samuel Ancell 23
Thomas Percival 21
Henry Swinburne 20
Jean Louis De Lolme 19
Royal College of Physicians of London 19
Adam Smith 17
Bielby Porteus 16
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon 16
Joseph Addison 16
Sir Richard Steele 16
William Richardson 16
Thomas Sheridan 15
William Dalgliesh 13
Torbern Bergman 12
Académie royale des sciences et belles lettres (Berlin, Germany) 11
George Anne Bellamy 11
John Knox 10
Henry Fielding 9
Henri François d' Aguesseau 8
Henry Mackenzie 8
Lodovico Ariosto 8
Sir Isaac Newton 8
Sir John Sinclair 8
Society of Antiquaries of London 8
William Gilpin 8
Henry Home Lord Kames 7
Joseph Ames 7
Lucy Peacock 7
Oliver Goldsmith 7
William Herbert 7
Antonio Ponz 6
Bishop George Berkeley 6
Henry Taylor 6
Jacques Saurin 6
James Playfair 6
James Ramsay 6
James Stuart 6
John Gardiner 6
John West 6
Nicolas Revett 6
Paul François Velly 6
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux 6
William Combe 6
Andrew Wight 5
Edward Beetham 5
Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon 5
François Rabelais 5
George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton 5
Jean Sylvain Bailly 5
Johann Caspar Lavater 5
Linnaeus 5
Louis Petit de Bachaumont 5
Sir Richard Joseph Sulivan 5
Societas Regia Scientiarum Gottingensis 5
Académie Royale des sciences (Paris) Académie des sciences (Paris) 4
Charles Burney 4
Dr Samuel Johnson 4
Edward Rigby 4
François-Georges Mustel 4
George Bubb Dodington Baron of Melcombe Regis 4
George Skene Keith 4
George Wallace 4
James Fordyce 4
John Balguy 4
John Fothergill 4
John Nichols 4

Book Work

New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World 506
Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 500
Sacred Biography: or, The History of the Patriarchs from Adam to Abraham 356
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 243
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 240
Monthly Review. A Periodical Work, Giving an Account ... of, and Extracts from, the New Books, Pamphlets, &c. 199
Voyage to the Pacific Ocean 187
Scots Magazine 185
Collection of Theological Tracts, in Six Volumes [Richard Watson] 128
New Annual Register 126
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 115
Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man 103
Memoirs of Baron de Tott. Containing the State of the Turkish Empire and the Crimea, during the Late War with Russia 103
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 98
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 95
Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World 92
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
System of Surgery [Benjamin Bell] 82
Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 74
Horae Solitariae 73
Infernal Conference, or Dialogues of Devils 68
Anna: or Memoirs of a Welch Heiress: Interspersed with Anecdotes of a Nabob 67
Of the Origin and Progress of Language 58
Elements of Natural History and Chemistry 54
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark 54
Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays 53
First Lines of the Practice of Physic, for the Use of Students in the University of Edinburgh 52
Chrysal: or, The Adventures of a Guinea 45
Recess; or, A Tale of Other Times 45
Medical Commentaries [Andrew Duncan] 41
Collection and Abridgement of Celebrated Criminal Trials in Scotland 36
Cabinet des Fées 34
Works of Voltaire 33
Interesting Memoirs 32
Medical Observations and Inquiries 30
Parliamentary Register; or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons 30
Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford, in the Year 1784 30
Nightcap 28
Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy 28
History of Scotland, from the Establishment of the Reformation, till the Death of Queen Mary 26
Maria: A Novel 26
Scotch Preacher: or, A Collection of Sermons, by Some of the Most Eminent Clergymen of the Church of Scotland 26
Essays Moral and Literary 25
Independent: A Novel 25
Sermons Preached at Lincoln's-Inn, Between the Years 1765 and 1776 25
Journal of the Siege of Gibraltar 23
Memoirs of the Life of Voltaire 22
Moral and Literary Dissertations 21
Travels in the Two Sicilies 20
Authentic and Accurate Journal of the Late Siege of Gibraltar 19
Constitution of England, Or An Account of the English Government 19
Medical Transactions, Published by the College of Physicians in London 19
Arabian Nights Entertainments 17
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 17
The Quaker 17
Sermons on Several Subjects [Beilby Porteus] 16
Spectator 16
Life of Jonathan Swift 15
English Review, or An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature 14
Memoirs of the Baron de Tott, on the Turks and the Tartars 14
Nouveau Théâtre Allemand 13
Sum of Christianity, in Four Books 13
New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature 12
Anecdotes of the Russian Empire. In a Series of Letters ... St Petersburg 11
Apology for the Life of George Anne Bellamy, Late of Covent-Garden Theatre 11
Natural History, General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon 10
New and General Biographical Dictionary 10
View of the British Empire 10
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres 9
Works of Henry Fielding 9
Archaeologia, or Miscellaneous Tracts, Relating to Antiquity 8
Elegant Extracts 8
History of the Public Revenue of the British Empire 8
Life of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury 8
Lounger 8
Orlando Furioso 8
Physical and Chemical Essays [Torbern Bergman] 8
Works of Henri François d' Aguesseau 8
Works of Isaac Newton 8
Adventures of the Six Princesses of Babylon 7
Commentarii de Rebus in Scientia Naturali et Medicina Gestis 7
Elements of Criticism 7
Histoire de l'Acádemie Royale des Sciences et des Belles Lettres de Berlin 7
Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester 7
Plays of Three Acts; Written for a Private Theatre 7
Typographical Antiquities: or An Historical Account of the Origin and Progress of Printing in Great Britain and Ireland 7
Antiquities of Athens Measured and Delineated 6
Apology of Benjamin Ben Mordecai to His Friends, for Embracing Christianity 6
Catalogue of the Faculty of Advocates Library 6
Chemical Essays [Richard Watson] 6
Elements of Mathematics. Comprehending Geometry. Conic Sections. Mensuration. Spherics 6
Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies 6
Histoire de France depuis l'établissement de la Monarchie jusqu'au Regne de Louis XIV 6
Inquiry into the Human Mind, on the Principles of Common Sense 6
Natural History of Birds 6
Observations on the Animal Oeconomy, and on the Causes and Cure of Diseases 6
Philosophical, Historical, and Moral Essay on Old Maids 6
Poems and Plays [William Hayley] 6
Royal Register 6
Sermons [Jacques Saurin] 6

Book language

English 5172
French 312
Latin 48
Italian 11
Spanish 8
German 5
Greek 1
Russian 1

Book place of publication

London 4273
Edinburgh 832
Paris 206
Cambridge 132
Geneva 36
Kehl 34
Liverpool 23
Warrington 21
Dublin 16
Berlin 13
Leipzig 12
Stockholm 10
Madrid 8
Oxford 8
Göttingen 7
Venice 6
Glasgow 5
Newcastle upon Tyne 5
The Hague 5
i.e. Amsterdam? 5
Exeter 4
Philadelphia 4
Winchester 4
Amsterdam 3
Birmingham 3
Leiden 3
Naples 3
Neuchâtel 3
Lille 2
Liège 2
Salisbury 2
Vienna 2
Bern 1
Caen 1
Canterbury 1
Dresden 1
Halle 1
Heidelberg 1
Holland 1
Jena 1
Pisa 1
Prague 1
Rome 1
Rouen 1
Siena 1
St Petersburg 1
Verona 1
Warsaw 1
Warwick 1
York 1
i.e. Paris? 1

Book format

8vo 3442
4to 1027
folio 571
12mo 508
18mo 1
score 1

Genre

Periodicals 1335
Travel 1119
Sermons 711
Theology 683
History 539
Fiction 420
Belles Lettres 270
Medicine 267
Philosophy and Morality 245
Natural Philosophy 160
Lives 130
Law 108
Politics, Society and Political Economy 88
Education 78
Poetry 53
Drama 40
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 29
Reference Works 26
Fine Arts 18
Mathematics 18

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