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Edinburgh University Library 7
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Borrower title

Mr 286
Mrs 123
Reverend Mr 98
Dr 29
Captain 24
Reverend 17
Miss 16
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Professor 11
Reverend Dr 8
Lord 3
Misses 1

Borrower gender

Male 1657
Female 161
Unknown 5

Borrower occupation

Religion and Clergy 128
Minister/Priest 126
Independent Means 120
Church of Scotland 99
Gentleman 62
Politics/Office Holders 61
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 58
Law 56
Education 43
Advocate 29
Customs Collector 24
Tax Collector 22
School Child 21
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 20
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 20
Military 20
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Writer/Procurator 19
Agricultural 16
University Professor 16
Medicine and Health 14
Merchants/Traders 14
Surgeon 14
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Ships Owner 13
Unknown denomination 13
Arts and Letters 12
Presbyterian Seceder 12
Author 9
Tenant 9
Sheriff 8
Surveyor 8
Farmer 7
Factor/Agent 6
Lord Provost/Provost 6
University Student 6
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 5
Brewer 3
Miscellaneous 3
Service Provision and Hospitality 3
Episcopalian 2
Painter/Limner 2
Watchmaker 2
Wife/Spouse 2
Bishop 1
Curator 1
Lay Preacher 1
MP (Britain) 1
Prisoner of War 1
Provost 1
Widow 1

Author

Sir Walter Scott 63
David Brewster 60
Doctor Henry Hunter 39
Edward Gibbon 39
Tobias George Smollett 39
Robert Burns 38
Jane Porter 35
Dr James Currie 30
Robert Walker 30
Charles Rollin 28
William Fordyce Mavor 27
Isaac Milner 25
Joseph Milner 25
Maria Edgeworth 25
William Robertson 25
Henry Fielding 23
William Gurnall 23
Joseph Addison 19
Sir Richard Steele 19
William Godwin 18
Robert Traill 17
William Cowper 17
Christian Isobel Johnstone 15
Hannah More 15
James Bruce 15
Louis Simond 15
Arthur Young 14
David Hume 14
Dr John Moore 14
Dr Samuel Johnson 14
Frances Jacson 14
Mrs Elizabeth Inchbald 14
Robert Henry 14
William Dodd 14
William Marshall 14
Flavius Josephus 13
Henry Mackenzie 13
James Hervey 13
Thomas Campbell 13
Bryce Johnston 12
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon 12
D.D. George Lawson 12
James Meikle 12
Nicholas Sloan 12
Hugh Blair 11
John Newton 11
John Witherspoon 11
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 11
Humphrey Prideaux 10
John Logan 10
Richard Cumberland 10
Amelia Alderson Opie 9
Charles Robert Maturin 9
Elizabeth Hamilton 9
Frances Burney 9
Henry Brooke 9
James Thomson Minister at Quarrelwood 9
Mary Brunton 9
Reverend Augustus Toplady 9
Ambrose Serle 8
Benjamin Franklin 8
Comte Antoine-François de Fourcroy 8
Donald Campbell 8
John Gillies 8
Joseph Hall 8
Captain D. Williams 7
Helen Maria Williams 7
Hugo Arnot 7
James Cook 7
Plutarch 7
Robert Foote Minister of Fettercairn 7
Thomas Scott 7
William Hayley 7
William McEwen 7
Edward Burt 6
George Ridpath 6
Henry Venn 6
John Payne 6
John Young 6
Joseph Johnston 6
Mungo Park 6
Robert Dossie 6
Samuel Ancell 6
Samuel Richardson 6
Thomas Newton Bishop of Bristol 6
Thomas Stackhouse 6
William Coxe 6
William Shakespeare 6
Vicesimus Knox 5
Abbé Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal 5
Alexander Shanks 5
Charles Thompson Traveller 5
D.D. Alexander Macleod 5
David Ramsay 5
Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan 5
George Cook 5
Homer 5
James Beattie 5
James Macpherson 5
Johann Lorenz Mosheim 5

Book Work

Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 60
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 35
Bible 34
Scottish Chiefs, A Romance 34
Works of Robert Burns 34
Sacred Biography: or, The History of the Patriarchs from Adam to Abraham 33
Sermons on Practical Subjects [Robert Walker] 30
Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians 25
History of the Church of Christ ... Revised and Corrected by Isaac Milner 25
Antiquary 24
Christian in Compleat Armour 23
Spectator 19
British Tourists; or, Traveller's Pocket Companion through England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland 18
Works of the Late Reverend Robert Traill 17
Coelebs in Search of a Wife 15
History of America [William Robertson] 15
Travels in England 15
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile [James Bruce] 15
British Theatre; or, a Collection of Plays ... acted at the Theatre Royal 14
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 14
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 14
Rhoda: A Novel 14
History of England [David Hume] 13
Works of Flavius Josephus 13
Commentary on the Revelation of St John 12
Edinburgh Review, or, Critical Journal 12
Leading Features of the Gospel Delineated 12
Natural History, General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon 12
Popular Tales [Maria Edgeworth] 12
Sisters; or, The History of Lucy & Caroline Sanson, Entrusted to a False Friend 12
Works of Samuel Johnson 12
Clan-Albin: A National Tale 11
Don Quixote 11
History of England [Tobias Smollett] 11
St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 11
Theron and Aspasio: or, A Series of Dialogues and Letters 11
Works of John Witherspoon 11
Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 10
Sermons [John Logan] 10
Bertram, or the Castle of St. Aldobrand 9
Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress 9
Cottagers of Glenburnie 9
Elegant Epistles; or, A Copious Collection of Familiar and Amusing Letters 9
Fool of Quality, or, The History of Henry Earl of Moreland 9
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 9
Theological Discourses on Important Subjects, Doctrinal and Practical 9
Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testament 8
Elements of Natural History and Chemistry 8
Guy Mannering; or, the Astrologer 8
History of Ancient Greece, its Colonies and Conquests 8
Journey over Land to India 8
Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays 8
Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations 8
Quarterly Review 8
Adventures of Roderick Random 7
Captain Williams's Narrative 7
Horae Solitariae 7
Lectures on the History of Joseph 7
Life and Posthumous Writings [chiefly Letters] of William Cowper 7
Lives [Plutarch] 7
Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk 7
Posthumous Works [Augustus Toplady] 7
Sermons [Robert Foote] 7
Solitude Sweetened: or, Miscellaneous Meditations on Several Religious Subjects, Written in Distant Parts of the World 7
Things as they are; or, the Adventures of Caleb Williams 7
Tour in Switzerland 7
Universal History, Ancient and Modern; from the Earliest Records of Time, to the General Peace of 1801 7
Voyage to the Pacific Ocean 7
Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since 7
Border-History of England and Scotland, Deduced from the Earliest Times to the Union of the Two Crowns 6
Handmaid to the Arts 6
History of Sir Charles Grandison 6
Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 6
Journal of the Late and Important Blockade and Siege of Gibraltar 6
Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to his Friend in London 6
Marmion; A Tale of Flodden Field 6
New History of the Holy Bible 6
New and Complete System of Universal Geography 6
Poems [Thomas Campbell] 6
Sermons [Henry Hunter] 6
Sermons on Practical Subjects: Preached Mostly at the Dispensing of The Holy Ordinance Of our Lord's Supper 6
Sermons on Select Subjects [Thomas Scott] 6
Sermons on Various Practical Subjects [John Young] 6
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark 6
Valentine's Eve 6
Anster Fair ... With Other Poems 5
Beauties of Scotland: Containing a ... Full Account of the Agriculture, Commerce, Mines, and Manufactures 5
Brief Sketch of the Several Denominations into which the Christian World is Divided 5
Cardiphonia: or, The Utterance of the Heart; in the Course of a Real Correspondence 5
Castle Rackrent, An Hibernian Tale 5
Contemplations Moral and Divine 5
Discipline 5
Dissertations on the Prophecies, Which have Remarkably Been Fulfilled, and at this Time are Fulfilling in the World 5
Ecclesiastical History, Antient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Present Century 5
Expedition of Humphry Clinker 5
Farmer's Tour through the East of England 5
History of Edinburgh 5
History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and his friend Mr Abraham Adams 5
History of the Reformation in Scotland [George Cook] 5
Iliad 5

Book language

English 1763
French 9
Latin 7
Italian 2

Book place of publication

London 1090
Edinburgh 579
Glasgow 37
Liverpool 27
New York 21
Dublin 20
Paisley 14
Carlisle 12
Paris 8
Aberdeen 7
Berwick 6
Cambridge 6
Perth 6
Hawick 5
Oxford 5
Ayr 4
Dundee 4
Antwerp 3
Belfast 2
Leith 2
York 2
Amsterdam 1
Burlington 1
Chichester 1
Dresden 1
Leeds 1
Leiden 1
Milan 1
Philadelphia 1

Book format

8vo 911
12mo 544
4to 133
folio 85
18mo 18
16mo 5
24mo 2

Genre

Fiction 357
Theology 347
History 235
Sermons 200
Travel 160
Poetry 133
Lives 117
Belles Lettres 65
Reference Works 64
Periodicals 52
Philosophy and Morality 51
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 45
Natural Philosophy 43
Politics, Society and Political Economy 43
Drama 30
Education 11
Fine Arts 9
Law 8
Medicine 2

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