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Library

Westerkirk 1110
Selkirk Library 799
Leighton Library 723
Royal High School of Edinburgh 470
Advocates Library 323
Innerpeffray Library 216
Edinburgh University Library 151
Aberdeen Theological Library 127
Wigtown Subscription Library 73
Orkney Library 70
Glasgow University Library 62
St Andrews University Library 35
Craigston Castle Library 22
Chambers' Circulating Library 17
Hunterian Museum Library 12
Dumfries Presbytery Library 11

Borrower title

Mr 1130
Reverend Mr 513
Captain 63
Mrs 50
Sir 48
Dr 45
Lieutenant 44
Reverend 39
Miss 37
Reverend Dr 12
Midshipman 10
Right Honourable 8
Prof. 5
Colonel 4
Corporal 4
Professor 4
Lady 3
Brigadier General 2
Principal 2
Rev. 2
Sous Lieutenant 2
Major 1
Sous-Lieutenant 1

Borrower gender

Male 4111
Female 104
Unclear 1

Borrower occupation

Education 925
School Child 463
Law 441
Religion and Clergy 395
Minister/Priest 387
University Student 358
Advocate 308
Church of Scotland 297
Military 191
Prisoner of War 178
Arts and Letters 148
Author 139
Independent Means 128
Agricultural 127
Medicine and Health 107
Surgeon 101
University Professor 99
Farmer 95
Tenant 94
Writer/Procurator 87
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 86
Presbyterian Seceder 82
Politics/Office Holders 61
Sheriff 61
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 50
Notaries/Clerks 48
Gentleman 42
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 38
MP (Britain) 33
Construction 32
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 32
Architect 27
Dean of Faculty 22
Merchants/Traders 22
School Master/Dominie 21
Barrister 16
Mason/Miller 16
Navy 15
Clerk of Session 14
Advocate Depute 13
Baillie 11
Clerks 11
Army 9
Banker 9
Dyer 9
Factor/Agent 9
Judge 9
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 8
Tanner/Currier 8
Teacher 8
Chaplain 7
Customs Collector 7
Lay Preacher 7
Lord Provost/Provost 7
Miscellaneous 7
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 7
Wife/Spouse 7
Writer to the Signet (WS) 7
Physician 6
Accountant 5
Engineer 5
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 5
Surveyor 5
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 4
Baron of the Exchequer 4
Poet 4
Curator 3
Librarian 3
Lord Advocate 3
Mariner 3
Print and Book Trade 3
Printers 3
Solicitor-General 3
Tax Collector 3
Unknown denomination 3
Advocate’s Clerk 2
Episcopalian 2
Land Manager/Factor 2
Officer 2
Ships Captain 2
Tutor 2
Booksellers 1
Brewer 1
Lord President 1
Mill Owner 1
Publishers 1
Service Provision and Hospitality 1
Ships Owner 1
Watchmaker 1

Author

Doctor Henry Hunter 356
Sir John Sinclair 308
Robert Henry 243
Hugh Blair 235
Tobias George Smollett 196
William Russell 152
Edward Gibbon 150
David Hume 137
Henry Brooke 103
William Coxe 99
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 82
Charlotte Turner Smith 75
Joseph Townsend 75
William Smellie 71
Robert McCulloch 51
Dugald Stewart 41
John Gillies 40
Oliver Goldsmith 33
Pierre Marie François Pagès 27
Flavius Josephus 26
Abbé Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal 24
James Beattie 24
Johann Caspar Lavater 24
Carsten Niebuhr 22
John Spalding 22
Thomas Holcroft 22
Olaudah Equiano 19
Royal College of Physicians of London 19
Richard Cumberland 15
Jedidiah Morse 12
Thomas Somerville 11
James Gregory 10
Gilbert Stuart 9
James Boswell 8
Society of Antiquaries of London 8
William Graham 8
Académie royale des sciences et belles lettres (Berlin, Germany) 7
Linnean Society of London 7
William Mitford 7
Alexis Rochon 6
James Stuart 6
John Farquhar 6
Nicolas Revett 6
Thomas Watkins A. M. 6
Joseph Haslewood 5
Societas Regia Scientiarum Gottingensis 5
Adam Ferguson 4
Arthur Young 4
Edmund Burke 4
Friedrich Schiller 4
Owen Ruffhead 4
Alexander Adam 3
George Cartwright 3
Horace Bénédict de Saussure 3
James Anderson 3
Joseph Addison 3
M. Florian 3
Thomas Wintle 3
Alexander Pope 2
Ammianus Marcellinus 2
Aubin Louis Millin 2
Daniel Albert Wyttenbach 2
David B. Jardine 2
David Doig 2
George Chapman 2
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 2
Gottlieb Christoph Harless 2
Jacques-Vincent Delacroix 2
James Macpherson 2
Johann Georg Zimmermann 2
L. (Louis) Dutens 2
Linnaeus 2
Louis François Armand du Plessis Duc de Richelieu 2
Polybius 2
Reale Accademia Ercolanese di Archeologia 2
Richard Gough 2
William Bligh 2
William Brown 2
William Gilpin 2
Académie Royale des sciences (Paris) Académie des sciences (Paris) 1
Accademia Della Scienze Di Siena Detta De'Fisiocritica 1
Adolf Fredrick Ristell 1
Aeschylus 1
Anthony à Wood 1
Antonio de Capmany y de Montpalau 1
Apuleius 1
Arthur Murphy 1
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 1
Capel Lofft 1
Charles de Peyssonnel 1
Christian Gottlob Heyne 1
Christoph Martin Wieland 1
Daniel Defoe 1
Daniel Lysons 1
Ebenezer Hazard 1
Edward Hasted 1
Edward Ledwich 1
Edward Spelman 1
Edward Wood 1
Ellis Cornelia Knight 1

Book Work

Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 497
Sacred Biography: or, The History of the Patriarchs from Adam to Abraham 356
Statistical Account of Scotland 308
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 243
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 235
Encyclopaedia Britannica 222
Scots Magazine 185
History of Modern Europe 152
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 150
History of England [Tobias Smollett] 144
History of England [David Hume] 137
New Annual Register 126
Fool of Quality, or, The History of Henry Earl of Moreland 103
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark 99
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
Don Quixote 82
Journey through Spain in the Years 1786 and 1787 75
Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal 73
Philosophy of Natural History 71
Lectures on the Prophecies of Isaiah 51
Adventures of Roderick Random 49
Desmond. A Novel 44
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind 41
Medical Commentaries [Andrew Duncan] 41
History of Ancient Greece, its Colonies and Conquests 40
Desmond 31
Parliamentary Register; or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons 30
Travels Round the World, in the Years 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771 27
Scotch Preacher: or, A Collection of Sermons, by Some of the Most Eminent Clergymen of the Church of Scotland 26
Works of Flavius Josephus 26
Elements of Moral Science 24
Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind 24
Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies 24
Anna St. Ives: a novel 22
History of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland, from the Year 1624 to 1645 22
Travels through Arabia 22
Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano 19
Medical Transactions, Published by the College of Physicians in London 19
Analytical Review 15
Calvary; or The Death of Christ. A Poem 15
Citizen of the World 15
English Review, or An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature 14
American Geography; or, A View of the Present Situation of the United States of America 12
New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature 12
History of Political Transactions, and of Parties, from the Restoration of King Charles the Second, to the Death of King William 11
Vicar of Wakefield 11
Philosophical and Literary Essays [James Gregory] 10
Archaeologia, or Miscellaneous Tracts, Relating to Antiquity 8
Life of Samuel Johnson [James Boswell] 8
Review of Ecclesiastical Establishments in Europe 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
History of Greece [William Mitford] 7
Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester 7
Transactions of the Linnean Society 7
Antiquities of Athens Measured and Delineated 6
Catalogue of the Faculty of Advocates Library 6
Sermons on Various Subjects [John Farquhar] 6
Travels through Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, the Greek Islands, to Constantinople 6
Voyage to Madagascar, and the East Indies 6
Bouquet, a Selection of Poems from the Most Celebrated Authors 5
Commentationes Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Gottingensis 5
Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith 5
Observations sur la Physique, sur l'Histoire Naturelle et sur les Arts 5
Secret History of the Green Room 5
Annals of Agriculture, and other Useful Arts 4
Gentleman's Magazine 4
Natural History of Insects, Compiled 4
Principles of Moral and Political Science 4
Reports of Sir George Croke 4
Rural Economy, or Essays on the Practical Parts of Husbandry 4
Statutes at Large 4
Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke 4
Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 3
Annales de Chimie 3
Asiatick Researches; or, Transactions of the Society, instituted in Bengal 3
Daniel, an Improved Version Attempted 3
Essays Relating to Agriculture and Rural Affairs [James Anderson] 3
Evidences of the Christian Religion 3
Journal of Transactions and Events, During a Residence in Labrador 3
Oeuvres de M. de Florian 3
Roman Antiquities; or, an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Romans 3
Sporting Magazine 3
Voyages dans les Alpes Précédés d'un Essai sur l'Histoire Naturelle des Environs de Genève 3
Antiquities of Herculaneum 2
Antiquités nNtionales; ou, Recueil de Monumens pour Servir à l'Histoire de l'Empire Français 2
Bibliotheca Critica [Daniel Wyttenbach] 2
Collection of the Most Esteemed Farces and Entertainments Performed on the British Stage 2
Ghost-Seer; or Apparitionist 2
Histories [Polybius] 2
History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Death of George II 2
Introductio in Historiam Linguae Graecae 2
Journal de Médecine, Chirurgie, Pharmacie 2
Letters on the Savage State, Addressed to the Late Lord Kaims 2
Magasin Encyclopédique, ou Journal des Sciences, des Lettres et des Arts 2
Mirror. A Periodical Paper, published at Edinburgh in the Years 1779 and 1780 2
Mémoires du Maréchal duc de Richelieu 2
Philosophia Botanica [Carl Linnaeus] 2
Poems of Ossian 2
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery [William Brown] 2

Book language

English 4131
French 44
Latin 29
German 9
Italian 6
Greek 2
Icelandic 1
Spanish 1

Book place of publication

London 2954
Edinburgh 1480
York 26
Paris 25
Aberdeen 22
Leipzig 14
Dublin 11
Perth 11
Berlin 9
Glasgow 9
Göttingen 7
The Hague 5
Burlington 4
Naples 4
Oxford 4
Calcutta 3
Madrid 3
Neuchâtel 3
Newark 3
Philadelphia 3
Altenburg 2
Amsterdam 2
Bath 2
Cambridge 2
Frankfurt am Main 2
Canterbury 1
Copenhagen 1
Dresden 1
Halle 1
Jena 1
Leiden 1
Lynn 1
Prague 1
Siena 1
Venice 1
Verona 1

Book format

8vo 2965
4to 830
12mo 479
folio 33

Genre

Periodicals 1088
History 893
Sermons 677
Theology 375
Fiction 367
Politics, Society and Political Economy 327
Travel 263
Reference Works 229
Natural Philosophy 132
Philosophy and Morality 86
Medicine 72
Law 47
Lives 42
Poetry 35
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 16
Belles Lettres 15
Fine Arts 11
Drama 6
Education 4
Mathematics 1

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