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Library

Selkirk Library 854
Glasgow University Library 628
Westerkirk 536
Advocates Library 511
Royal High School of Edinburgh 445
Leighton Library 412
St Andrews University Library 321
Edinburgh University Library 279
Innerpeffray Library 221
Aberdeen Theological Library 215
Wigtown Subscription Library 155
Orkney Library 106
Haddington Library 91
Craigston Castle Library 45
Hunterian Museum Library 16
Dumfries Presbytery Library 12
Chambers' Circulating Library 2

Borrower title

Mr 1194
Reverend Mr 378
Dr 97
Captain 83
Lieutenant 73
Mrs 64
Sir 45
Reverend 42
Professor 24
Miss 21
Midshipman 14
Reverend Dr 10
Colonel 8
Corporal 5
Major 4
Principal 4
Sous Lieutenant 4
Lady 3
Rev. 3
Sous-Lieutenant 3
Rev. Mr 2
Bishop 1
Lieutenant Colonel 1
Lord 1
Prof. 1
Right Honourable 1

Borrower gender

Male 4733
Female 102
Unknown 7
Unclear 4

Borrower occupation

Education 1879
University Student 1005
Law 601
University Professor 502
Advocate 486
School Child 426
Religion and Clergy 410
Minister/Priest 398
Church of Scotland 356
Military 264
Prisoner of War 215
Independent Means 153
Agricultural 141
Arts and Letters 128
Sheriff 121
Author 103
Tenant 102
Farmer 99
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 84
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 83
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 72
Medicine and Health 72
Politics/Office Holders 71
Writer/Procurator 71
Gentleman 69
Surgeon 68
Dean of Faculty 54
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 46
Merchants/Traders 45
Navy 45
MP (Britain) 42
Chaplain 38
Presbyterian Seceder 35
Notaries/Clerks 32
School Master/Dominie 26
Judge 23
Advocate Depute 22
Teacher 20
Banker 18
Clerk of Session 16
Librarian 16
Miscellaneous 16
Print and Book Trade 16
Printers 16
Army 15
Construction 15
Lord Provost/Provost 12
Widow 12
Customs Collector 11
Land Manager/Factor 11
Lord Advocate 11
Mason/Miller 11
Writer to the Signet (WS) 11
Clerks 10
Tanner/Currier 10
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 9
Architect 8
Baillie 8
Lord President 8
Accountant 7
Engineer 7
Factor/Agent 7
Solicitor-General 7
Baron of the Exchequer 6
Curator 6
Dyer 5
Lay Preacher 5
Retailer/Shopkeeper 5
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 4
Physician 4
Poet 4
Wife/Spouse 4
Barrister 3
Episcopalian 3
Mariner 3
Officer 3
Provost 3
Advocate’s Clerk 2
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 2
Booksellers 2
Messenger-at-arms 2
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 2
Publishers 2
Ships Captain 2
Unknown denomination 2
Grocer 1
Painter/Limner 1
Secretary of State 1
Service Provision and Hospitality 1
Ships Owner 1
Shoemaker 1
Supporting Activities 1
Watchmaker 1

Author

Hugh Blair 245
Robert Henry 243
Robert Watson 154
Hugo Arnot 143
Edward Gibbon 117
David Hume 111
John Campbell 101
Oliver Goldsmith 89
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (France) 82
Sir David Dalrymple Lord Hailes 78
Dr John Moore 74
Ambrose Serle 73
Frances Burney 71
James Burnet Lord Monboddo 63
Dr Samuel Johnson 56
Thomas Parnell 56
Voltaire 56
Robert Lowth 51
William Russell 51
Abbé Claude François Xavier Millot 48
Vicesimus Knox 46
Catherine Macaulay 46
Humphrey Prideaux 45
Clara Reeve 39
Johann Georg Zimmermann 39
Pietro Metastasio 39
Richard Graves 37
William Alexander 37
Homer 31
Robert Lindsay 31
John Newton 29
Tobias George Smollett 29
William Cowper 29
Gilbert Stuart 28
James Burrow 28
Henry Home Lord Kames 27
Henry Swinburne 27
Johann David Michaelis 27
James Thomson 26
Pons Augustin Alletz 26
Geoffrey Chaucer 24
Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire 24
William Robertson 23
Royal College of Physicians of London 19
Thomas Warton 19
Jonathan Carver 18
Thomas Scott 17
Andrew Wight 16
William Coxe 16
Samuel Walker 15
Thomas Pennant 15
Donald MacNicol 14
James Fitzjames Duke of Berwick 14
Jean le Rond d' Alembert 14
Denis Diderot 13
Sir William Blackstone 13
Joseph Jenkins 12
Académie royale des sciences et belles lettres (Berlin, Germany) 11
Jean André de Luc 11
William Shakespeare 11
Andrew Duncan 10
Benjamin Bell 10
Bernhard Siegfried Albinus 10
Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences 9
Adair Crawford 9
Lope de Vega 9
William Newcome 9
Antoine Court de Gébelin 8
George Horne 8
Henri François d' Aguesseau 8
Isocrates 8
John Hawkesworth 8
Joseph Warton 8
Lysias 8
Maximilien Bethune Duc de Sully 8
Philip Massinger 8
Richard Bathurst 8
Sir Isaac Newton 8
Society of Antiquaries of London 8
Virgil 7
William Combe 7
Aeschylus 6
Blaise Pascal 6
Charles Francis Sheridan 6
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon 6
Eduard Sandifort 6
Girolamo Tiraboschi 6
James Stuart 6
Nicolas Revett 6
Paul François Velly 6
Pliny the Younger 6
Sir Joshua Reynolds 6
Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon 5
Freiherr von Nicolaus Joseph Jacquin 5
George Keate 5
James Murray 5
Jan Ingenhousz 5
Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye 5
John Whitehurst 5
Joseph Priestley 5

Book Work

Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 498
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 245
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 243
Monthly Review. A Periodical Work, Giving an Account ... of, and Extracts from, the New Books, Pamphlets, &c. 199
Scots Magazine 185
History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain 154
History of Edinburgh 143
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 117
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 115
Bell's British Theatre 110
History of England [David Hume] 105
Vicar of Wakefield 89
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres 75
View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany 74
Horae Solitariae 73
Evelina, or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World 71
Lives of the Admirals and Other Eminent British Seamen 61
Annals of Scotland [David Dalrymple] 60
Of the Origin and Progress of Language 58
Poetical Works of Thomas Parnell 56
Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill 56
History of Modern Europe 51
Isaiah. A New Translation; with a Preliminary Dissertation, and Notes Critical, Philological, and Explanatory 51
Elements of General History 48
Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time to the Present 48
Essays Moral and Literary 46
History of England [Catherine Macaulay] 46
Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations 45
Lives of the English Poets 44
Lives of the British Admirals: Containing a New and Accurate Naval History 40
Old English Baron: A Gothic Story 39
Poesie del Signor Abate Pietro Metastasio 39
Columella; or, The Distressed Anchoret 37
History of Women, from the Earliest Antiquity, to the Present Time 37
Solitude; or The Effect of Occasional Retirement on the Mind, the Heart, General Society, in Exile, in Old Age, and on the Bed of Death 37
Mirror [Edinburgh] 32
History of Scotland from 1436 to 1565 [Robert Lindsay] 31
Medical Observations and Inquiries 30
History of the Russian Empire under Peter the Great 29
Olney Hymns 29
Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, since the Death of Lord Raymond 28
Age of Louis XIV 27
Travels through Spain, in the Years 1775 and 1776 27
Expedition of Humphry Clinker 26
History of Ancient Greece, from the Earliest Times, till it became a Roman Province 26
Scotch Preacher: or, A Collection of Sermons, by Some of the Most Eminent Clergymen of the Church of Scotland 26
Introductory Lectures to the Sacred Book of the New Testament 25
Canterbury Tales 24
Sylph; A Novel 24
Works of James Thomson 24
History of America [William Robertson] 23
Odyssey 20
View of Society in Europe 20
History of English Poetry, from the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century 19
Medical Transactions, Published by the College of Physicians in London 19
Sketches of the History of Man 19
Remains of Christian Antiquity 18
Travels through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 18
Force of Truth: An Authentic Narrative 17
Present State of Husbandry in Scotland 16
Sketches of the Natural, Civil, and Political State of Swisserland 16
Fifty-Two Sermons [Samuel Walker] 15
Tour in Wales, MDCCLXX 15
Iliad 14
Memoirs of the Marshal Duke of Berwick 14
Remarks on Dr Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Hebrides 14
Commentaries on the Laws of England 13
Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers 13
Discourses on Select Passages of the Scripture-History 12
London Magazine: or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer 12
Lettres Physiques et Morales sur l'Histoire de la Terre et de l'Homme 11
Medical Cases, Selected from the Records of the Public Dispensary at Edinburgh 10
Plays of William Shakespeare 10
Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body 10
Treatise on the Theory and Management of Ulcers 10
Acta Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae 9
Bibliothèque des Sciences et des Beaux-Arts 9
Coleccion de las Obras Sueltas, Assi en Prosa, Como en Verso 9
Experiments and Observations on Animal Heat, and the Inflammation of Combustible Bodies 9
Harmony of the Gospels [William Newcome] 9
Trials for Adultery: or, The History of Divorces 9
Adventurer ... . On Vent'rous Wing in Quest of Praise I Go, And Leave the Gazing Multitude Below 8
Archaeologia, or Miscellaneous Tracts, Relating to Antiquity 8
Commentary on the Book of Psalms [George Horne] 8
Dramatic Works of Philip Massinger 8
Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the Great 8
Monde Primitif, Analysé et Comparé avec le Monde Moderne 8
Observations Concerning the Public Law, and the Constitutional History of Scotland 8
Orations of Lysias and Isocrates 8
Works of Henri François d' Aguesseau 8
Works of Isaac Newton 8
Commentarii de Rebus in Scientia Naturali et Medicina Gestis 7
Histoire de l'Acádemie Royale des Sciences et des Belles Lettres de Berlin 7
Mémoires de Littérature Tirés des Registres de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. 7
Pastorals and Georgics of Virgil 7
Antiquities of Athens Measured and Delineated 6
Catalogue of the Faculty of Advocates Library 6
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion 6
Histoire de France depuis l'établissement de la Monarchie jusqu'au Regne de Louis XIV 6

Book language

English 4350
French 349
Latin 91
Italian 51
Spanish 13
Greek 4
German 3
Saami 1

Book place of publication

London 3341
Edinburgh 1063
Paris 311
Dublin 60
Oxford 33
The Hague 31
Neuchâtel 17
Stockholm 14
Berlin 13
Madrid 13
Shrewsbury 12
Göttingen 11
Glasgow 10
St Petersburg 9
Leipzig 8
Florence 6
Rotterdam 6
Vienna 6
Amsterdam 5
i.e. Amsterdam? 5
Bath 4
Cambridge 3
Grenoble 3
Naples 3
Twickenham 3
Eton 2
Leiden 2
Philadelphia 2
Rome 2
Altenburg 1
Bern 1
Canterbury 1
Dresden 1
Frankfurt am Main 1
Jena 1
Maastricht 1
Newcastle upon Tyne 1
Perth 1
Prague 1
Siena 1
Trondheim 1

Book format

8vo 2786
4to 1128
12mo 643
folio 157
18mo 112
16mo 18

Genre

History 1564
Periodicals 1282
Belles Lettres 370
Poetry 318
Sermons 307
Fiction 297
Theology 267
Lives 195
Travel 195
Drama 144
Medicine 117
Law 100
Natural Philosophy 97
Philosophy and Morality 78
Politics, Society and Political Economy 74
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 37
Reference Works 37
Fine Arts 23
Mathematics 12
Education 5

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