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Library

Selkirk Library 4307
Westerkirk 3115
Royal High School of Edinburgh 2162
Leighton Library 1169
Advocates Library 1095
Orkney Library 556
Wigtown Subscription Library 245
Innerpeffray Library 216
Haddington Library 215
Chambers' Circulating Library 180
Aberdeen Theological Library 173
Edinburgh University Library 158
Glasgow University Library 67
St Andrews University Library 52
Craigston Castle Library 36
Hunterian Museum Library 12
Dumfries Presbytery Library 11

Borrower title

Mr 4429
Reverend Mr 1226
Lieutenant 323
Mrs 253
Captain 242
Miss 131
Dr 94
Reverend 80
Sir 80
Reverend Dr 64
Colonel 49
Sous Lieutenant 19
Corporal 16
Lady 16
Midshipman 12
Sous-Lieutenant 12
Brigadier General 10
Professor 8
Right Honourable 8
Adjudant Major 7
Prof. 6
Lieutenant Colonel 5
Major 4
Rev. 4
Lord 3
Madame 2
Principal 2
Bishop 1
Ensign 1
Honourable 1
Honourable Mrs 1
Provost 1
Staff Sergeant 1

Borrower gender

Male 13314
Female 441
Unknown 12
Unclear 1

Borrower occupation

Education 2835
School Child 2149
Law 1484
Military 1073
Advocate 1052
Prisoner of War 954
Religion and Clergy 890
Minister/Priest 868
Agricultural 700
Church of Scotland 700
Tenant 585
Independent Means 578
Farmer 464
University Student 464
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 345
Arts and Letters 320
Medicine and Health 308
Writer/Procurator 301
Surgeon 297
Author 292
Politics/Office Holders 242
Gentleman 233
Sheriff 226
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 207
MP (Britain) 154
University Professor 151
Presbyterian Seceder 139
Notaries/Clerks 123
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 111
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 96
Army 72
Tanner/Currier 72
Advocate Depute 69
School Master/Dominie 68
Dean of Faculty 67
Navy 65
Merchants/Traders 61
Mason/Miller 58
Construction 51
Writer to the Signet (WS) 45
Miscellaneous 41
Barrister 38
Wife/Spouse 38
Clerk of Session 36
Customs Collector 34
Architect 33
Teacher 32
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 31
Lord Advocate 29
Banker 27
Judge 26
Poet 23
Factor/Agent 22
Lord Provost/Provost 22
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 21
Mariner 20
Surveyor 18
Unknown denomination 18
Lay Preacher 17
Service Provision and Hospitality 17
Accountant 16
Solicitor-General 16
Engineer 14
Ships Owner 14
Baillie 11
Clerks 11
Print and Book Trade 11
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 10
Baron of the Exchequer 10
Physician 10
Booksellers 9
Brewer 9
Dyer 9
Librarian 9
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 9
Chaplain 8
Tax Collector 8
Episcopalian 7
Mill Owner 7
Grocer 6
Lord President 6
Land Manager/Factor 5
Officer 5
Publishers 5
Retailer/Shopkeeper 5
Bookbinder 4
Builder 4
Curator 4
Lord Justice Clerk 3
Printers 3
Privateer 3
Provost 3
Ships Captain 3
Tutor 3
Widow 3
Advocate’s Clerk 2
Distiller 2
Gardener 2
Shoemaker 2
Watchmaker 2

Author

William Fordyce Mavor 968
Doctor Henry Hunter 416
Robert Henry 345
Sir John Sinclair 308
Ann Radcliffe 293
Robert Burns 273
Tobias George Smollett 240
Dr James Currie 236
Hugh Blair 235
Mungo Park 223
William Russell 221
Dr John Moore 201
Charles Rollin 200
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy 197
Edward Gibbon 185
James Boswell 164
David Hume 149
Charlotte Turner Smith 133
William Coxe 132
Elizabeth Hamilton 130
William Robertson 112
Flavius Josephus 106
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 104
Henry Brooke 103
John Young 101
Marquis Antoine François Bertrand de Moleville 98
Joseph Hall 96
Robert Heron 93
William Dodd 90
Laurence Sterne 89
Bryan Edwards 86
Donald Campbell 86
Joseph Townsend 84
Robert Bisset 83
John Logan 82
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 82
Mrs Anna Maria Bennett 82
Frances Burney 80
Richard Cumberland 80
Lodovico Ariosto 78
Samuel Jackson Pratt 73
Geoffrey Chaucer 71
William Smellie 71
Bryce Johnston 69
John Payne 68
Patrick Colquhoun 65
William Tooke 65
Mary Robinson 64
Elizabeth Hervey 61
Thomas Mortimer 61
Benjamin Franklin 60
Sarah Harriet Burney 60
Charles Thompson Traveller 56
Malcolm Laing 56
William Hunter 56
Comte Jean-François de Galaup La Pérouse 55
Adam Smith 53
Thomas Campbell 53
Thomas Gisborne 53
Robert McCulloch 51
William Paley 50
John Evans 49
Louis-Pierre Anquetil 48
Maria Edgeworth 48
Joanna Baillie 46
Helen Maria Williams 45
Johann Caspar Lavater 43
Dugald Stewart 42
Robert Bage 42
John Gillies 40
Mrs Elizabeth Inchbald 39
Etienne François de Lantier 38
James Beattie 38
George Campbell 37
Reverend Augustus Toplady 37
Thomas Scott 37
William Roscoe 37
Oliver Goldsmith 35
Joseph Moser 34
David Simpson 33
Edward Young 33
James Macpherson 33
William Cowper 33
Bielby Porteus 32
Rev. John Bennett 32
Robert Bloomfield 32
William Roberts 32
Alexander Pope 31
John Palmer Jun. 31
Karl Philipp Moritz 31
Michael Symes 31
William Wilberforce 31
Johann Georg Zimmermann 30
Robert Southey 30
Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall 30
Auguste Heinrich Julius Lafontaine 29
Dr Samuel Johnson 29
Freiherr von Adolf Knigge 29
Charles John Ann Hereford 28
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon 28

Book Work

Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries [William Fordyce Mavor] 955
Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 520
Sacred Biography: or, The History of the Patriarchs from Adam to Abraham 356
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 345
Statistical Account of Scotland 308
Works of Robert Burns 236
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 235
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797 223
Encyclopaedia Britannica 222
Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians 200
Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece 196
Scots Magazine 185
History of England [Tobias Smollett] 180
History of Modern Europe 152
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 150
History of England [David Hume] 137
Life of Samuel Johnson [James Boswell] 132
New Annual Register 126
Mysteries of Udolpho 110
Works of Flavius Josephus 106
Fool of Quality, or, The History of Henry Earl of Moreland 103
Sermons on Various Practical Subjects [John Young] 100
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark 99
Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testament 96
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
Works of Laurence Sterne 87
History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies 86
Italian 85
Don Quixote 82
Romance of the Forest 82
Sermons [John Logan] 82
Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China 80
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth 80
Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors 79
Orlando Furioso 78
Edward 77
Elegant Epistles; or, A Copious Collection of Familiar and Amusing Letters 77
Mordaunt 76
Journey through Spain in the Years 1786 and 1787 75
Observations Made in a Journey through the Western Counties of Scotland, in the Autumn of M.DCC.XCII 74
Bell's British Theatre 73
Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal 73
Canterbury Tales 71
Philosophy of Natural History 71
Commentary on the Revelation of St John 69
History of Ancient Europe 69
Journey over Land to India 69
New and Complete System of Universal Geography 68
Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah 67
Henry [Richard Cumberland] 65
View of the Russian Empire during the Reign of Catharine the Second 65
Angelina; A Novel 64
Farmer's Magazine (Edinburgh, Scotland) 64
Memoirs of Modern Philosophers 63
British Plutarch 61
Clarentine: A Novel 60
Paul and Virginia 60
Sisters; or, The History of Lucy & Caroline Sanson, Entrusted to a False Friend 60
Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin 59
Private Memoirs Relative to the Last Year of the Reign of Lewis the Sixteenth 57
Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis 57
Banished Man. A Novel 56
Church of St Siffrid 56
History of Scotland from the Union of the Crowns on the Accession of James VI to the Throne of England, to the Union of the Kingdoms in the Reign of Queen Anne 56
Travels in the year 1792 through France, Turkey, and Hungary, to Vienna 56
Travels through Turkey in Asia, the Holy Land, Arabia, Egypt and Other Parts of the World 56
Voyage of La Pérouse round the World, in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, with the Nautical Tables 54
Pleasures of Hope 53
Lectures on the Prophecies of Isaiah 51
Douglas; or, The Highlander 50
Adventures of Roderick Random 49
Brief Sketch of the Several Denominations into which the Christian World is Divided 49
Anecdotes, Religious, Moral and Entertaining 47
Castle Rackrent, An Hibernian Tale 46
Memoirs of the Court of France, during the Reign of Lewis XIV. and the Regency of the Duke of Orleans 46
Plays on the Passions 46
Desmond. A Novel 44
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 43
Studies of Nature 43
Hermsprong; or, Man as He is Not 42
Journal during a Residence in France 42
Tour in Switzerland 42
Annals of the French Revolution; or, A Chronological Account of its Principal Events 41
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind 41
Family Secrets, Literary and Domestic 41
Medical Commentaries [Andrew Duncan] 41
History of Ancient Greece, its Colonies and Conquests 40
Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India 38
History of America [William Robertson] 38
Travels of Antenor in Greece and Asia: from a Greek Manuscript found at Herculaneum 38
Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent 37
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect [Robert Burns] 37
Sermons and Essays [Augustus Toplady] 37
Sermons on Select Subjects [Thomas Scott] 37
Nature and Art 36
Sermons [Henry Hunter] 36
Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon 35
Turkish Tales 34
Companion. Being a Choice cCllection of the Most Admired Pieces from the Best Authors 33
Curiosities of Literature 33

Book language

English 13547
French 132
Latin 47
German 24
Italian 14
Greek 7
Scots 3
Spanish 2
Hebrew 1
Icelandic 1

Book place of publication

London 10470
Edinburgh 2511
Liverpool 244
Glasgow 222
Perth 189
Paris 104
Dublin 87
Oxford 81
Bath 68
New York 68
York 48
Dundee 45
Macclesfield 33
Bristol 30
Leipzig 26
Montrose 25
Aberdeen 23
Berlin 12
Göttingen 12
Cambridge 11
Newcastle 10
Boston 9
Amsterdam 8
Birmingham 6
Venice 6
Norwich 5
Stockport 5
The Hague 5
Burlington 4
Calcutta 4
Cork 4
Leiden 4
Madrid 4
Naples 4
Philadelphia 4
Strasbourg 4
Clipstone 3
Frankfurt am Main 3
Kingston, Jamaica 3
Lausanne 3
Neuchâtel 3
Newark 3
Altenburg 2
Copenhagen 2
Halle 2
Hamburg 2
Hereford 2
Liverno 2
Shrewsbury 2
St Andrews 2
Sudbury 2
Utrecht 2
Brentford 1
Canterbury 1
Carlisle 1
Derby 1
Dresden 1
Edinburgh? 1
Gloucester 1
Jena 1
Lynn 1
Manchester 1
Northumberland PA 1
Pisa 1
Prague 1
Salisbury 1
Siena 1
Verona 1
Züllichau 1

Book format

8vo 7911
12mo 2953
4to 1829
18mo 1022
16mo 67
folio 55
score 1

Genre

Travel 2594
Fiction 2433
History 2273
Periodicals 1378
Sermons 1192
Lives 984
Theology 886
Poetry 875
Politics, Society and Political Economy 636
Belles Lettres 523
Natural Philosophy 332
Philosophy and Morality 270
Reference Works 241
Education 152
Drama 145
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 117
Medicine 112
Law 105
Fine Arts 35
Mathematics 17

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