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Library

Royal High School of Edinburgh 649
Selkirk Library 560
Leighton Library 515
Glasgow University Library 438
Advocates Library 415
Westerkirk 397
Edinburgh University Library 242
St Andrews University Library 203
Innerpeffray Library 151
Aberdeen Theological Library 111
Orkney Library 48
Wigtown Subscription Library 41
Craigston Castle Library 32
Dumfries Presbytery Library 13
Hunterian Museum Library 11
Chambers' Circulating Library 3
Haddington Library 1

Borrower title

Mr 924
Reverend Mr 357
Captain 68
Dr 62
Sir 37
Mrs 36
Lieutenant 33
Reverend 28
Miss 27
Professor 12
Midshipman 10
Reverend Dr 8
Right Honourable 8
Sous Lieutenant 6
Corporal 4
Major 4
Principal 4
Lady 3
Prof. 3
Colonel 2
Rev. 2
Sous-Lieutenant 1

Borrower gender

Male 3744
Female 80
Unclear 2

Borrower occupation

Education 1650
University Student 731
School Child 634
Law 473
Advocate 390
University Professor 325
Religion and Clergy 313
Minister/Priest 303
Church of Scotland 263
Military 181
Prisoner of War 149
Arts and Letters 116
Independent Means 96
Author 94
Agricultural 92
Sheriff 75
Farmer 71
Tenant 71
Medicine and Health 65
Surgeon 63
Politics/Office Holders 57
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 56
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 52
Dean of Faculty 47
Writer/Procurator 45
Gentleman 44
MP (Britain) 42
Notaries/Clerks 37
Presbyterian Seceder 36
Navy 30
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 29
Construction 29
Chaplain 25
Architect 21
Merchants/Traders 20
Advocate Depute 19
Librarian 15
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 14
Judge 13
Clerk of Session 12
Barrister 11
School Master/Dominie 11
Army 10
Baillie 10
Clerks 10
Lord Advocate 10
Print and Book Trade 10
Printers 10
Banker 9
Engineer 8
Factor/Agent 8
Lay Preacher 8
Baron of the Exchequer 7
Miscellaneous 6
Teacher 6
Customs Collector 5
Lord President 5
Poet 5
Solicitor-General 5
Wife/Spouse 5
Writer to the Signet (WS) 5
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 4
Land Manager/Factor 3
Mason/Miller 3
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 3
Officer 3
Advocate’s Clerk 2
Booksellers 2
Curator 2
Lord Justice Clerk 2
Mariner 2
Mill Owner 2
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 2
Physician 2
Publishers 2
Retailer/Shopkeeper 2
Ships Captain 2
Tanner/Currier 2
Brewer 1
Dyer 1
Episcopalian 1
Service Provision and Hospitality 1
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 1
Tutor 1
Unknown denomination 1
Widow 1

Author

Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon 409
Robert Henry 243
Hugh Blair 235
Dr John Moore 154
Edward Gibbon 117
Samuel Richardson 84
Ambrose Serle 73
Dr Samuel Johnson 68
James Burnet Lord Monboddo 58
Henry Mackenzie 49
Catherine Macaulay 42
John Newton 42
Pietro Metastasio 39
Comtesse Stéphanie Félicité Genlis 30
Vicesimus Knox 26
John Rickman 23
Henry Home Lord Kames 22
John Pinkerton 19
Royal College of Physicians of London 19
Thomas Warton 19
William Robertson 17
Jean Frédéric Ostervald 16
John Millar 16
Samuel Foote 15
James Harris 13
Académie royale des sciences et belles lettres (Berlin, Germany) 11
Adam Smith 11
Tiberius Cavallo 11
Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences 9
Alexander Gerard 9
Sir William Blackstone 9
Antoine Court de Gébelin 8
Charles Johnstone 8
Henri François d' Aguesseau 8
Henry Taylor 8
Johann Joachim Winckelmann 8
John Weskett 8
Oliver Goldsmith 8
Richard Wavell 8
Sir Isaac Newton 8
Society of Antiquaries of London 8
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (France) 7
Alexander Monro 7
Barthelemy Mouffle d'Angerville 7
Josiah Tucker 7
William Bell 7
Euripides 6
James Dunbar 6
James Stuart 6
Jean Sylvain Bailly 6
John Nichols 6
Nicolas Revett 6
Paul François Velly 6
Pliny the Younger 6
Richard Watson Bishop of Llandaff 6
William Combe 6
Abbé Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal 5
Ambrose Philips 5
Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon 5
Johann Caspar Lavater 5
Linnaeus 5
Louis Petit de Bachaumont 5
Societas Regia Scientiarum Gottingensis 5
Torbern Bergman 5
William Falconer 5
Académie Royale des sciences (Paris) Académie des sciences (Paris) 4
Charles Bonnet 4
Charles Burney 4
François-Georges Mustel 4
John Walker 4
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais 4
Thomas Bever 4
William Hayley 4
Alexander Hamilton 3
Antonio Ponz 3
Horace Bénédict de Saussure 3
James Anderson 3
Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye 3
Lucian of Samosata 3
Owen Ruffhead 3
Robert Lowth 3
Abbé Prévost 2
Alexander Pope 2
Daniel Albert Wyttenbach 2
Daniel Defoe 2
Felice Fontana 2
George Keate 2
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 2
Honoré Lacombe de Prezel 2
Jacob Bryant 2
John Gutch 2
Martin Sherlock 2
Mrs Mary Deverell 2
Raphaël Bienvenu Sabatier 2
Reale Accademia Ercolanese di Archeologia 2
Sir William Jones 2
Thomas Wilson 2
Tong-Kien-Kang-Mou 2
Voltaire 2
William Ogilvie 2

Book Work

Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 545
Natural History, General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon 403
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 243
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 235
Monthly Review. A Periodical Work, Giving an Account ... of, and Extracts from, the New Books, Pamphlets, &c. 199
Scots Magazine 185
View of Society and Manners in Italy 154
New Annual Register 126
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 117
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 115
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
History of Sir Charles Grandison 84
Horae Solitariae 73
Lives of the English Poets 64
Of the Origin and Progress of Language 58
Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill 56
Mirror 49
Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time to the Present 48
Cardiphonia: or, The Utterance of the Heart; in the Course of a Real Correspondence 42
History of England [Catherine Macaulay] 42
Medical Commentaries [Andrew Duncan] 41
Poesie del Signor Abate Pietro Metastasio 39
Medical Observations and Inquiries 30
Parliamentary Register; or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons 30
Theatre of Education. Translated from the French of the Countess de Genlis 30
Liberal Education: or, A Practical Treatise on the Methods of Acquiring Useful and Polite Learning 26
Scotch Preacher: or, A Collection of Sermons, by Some of the Most Eminent Clergymen of the Church of Scotland 26
Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, on Discovery 23
Loose Hints upon Education, Chiefly Concerning the Culture of the Heart 22
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
Scottish Tragic Ballads 19
History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and King James VI 17
Lectures on the Exercise of the Sacred Ministry 16
Origin of the Distinction of Ranks 16
Dramatic Works of Samuel Foote 15
Poems [John Logan] 15
Philological Inquiries [James Harris] 13
London Magazine: or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer 12
New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature 12
Theory of Moral Sentiments 11
Acta Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae 9
Reports of Cases Determined in the Several Courts of Westminster-Hall, from 1746 to 1779 9
Sermons [Alexander Gerard] 9
Archaeologia, or Miscellaneous Tracts, Relating to Antiquity 8
Complete Digest of the Theory Laws and Practice of Insurance 8
Farther Thoughts on the Nature of the Grand Apostacy of the Christian Churches 8
History of John Juniper, Esq. alias Juniper Jack 8
Monde Primitif, Analysé et Comparé avec le Monde Moderne 8
Roman History from the Foundation of the City of Rome, to the Destruction of the Western Empire 8
Thoughts on the Nature of the Grand Apostacy 8
Works of Henri François d' Aguesseau 8
Works of Isaac Newton 8
Attempt to Ascertain and Illustrate the Authority, Nature, and Design of the Institution of Christ commonly called the Communion and the Lord's Supper 7
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
Private Life of Louis XV 7
Treatise Concerning Civil Government 7
Works of Alexander Monro, M.D. 7
Antiquities of Athens Measured and Delineated 6
Catalogue of the Faculty of Advocates Library 6
Chemical Essays [Richard Watson] 6
Essay on the Theory and Practice of Medical Electricity 6
Essays on the History of Mankind in Rude and Cultivated Ages 6
Histoire de France depuis l'établissement de la Monarchie jusqu'au Regne de Louis XIV 6
Histoire de l'Art de l'Antiquité 6
Histoire de l'Astronomie Ancienne 6
Natural History [Pliny] 6
Natural History of Birds 6
Royal Register 6
Works of Euripides 6
Amoenitates Academicae 5
Commentationes Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Gottingensis 5
Constitutions of the Several Independent States of America; the Declaration of Independence; the Articles of Confederation between the Said States; the Treaties between His Most Christian Majesty and the United States of America 5
Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind 5
Histoire de l'Astronomie Moderne 5
Mémoires Secrets pour Servir a l'Histoire de la République des Lettres en France 5
Observations sur la Physique, sur l'Histoire Naturelle et sur les Arts 5
Physical and Chemical Essays [Torbern Bergman] 5
Poetical Works of Ambrose Philips with the Life of the Author 5
Remarks on the Influence of Climate 5
Revolution of America 5
State Papers Collected by Edward, Earl of Clarendon. 5
Treatise on the Nature and Properties of Air 5
View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany 5
Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica 4
Elements of Elocution. Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures on the Art of Reading 4
General History of Music [Charles Burney] 4
Gentleman's Magazine 4
History of the Legal Polity of the Roman State; and of the Rise, Progress, and Extent of the Roman Laws 4
Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal 4
Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres 4
OEuvres Complètes [Beaumarchais] 4
OEuvres d'Histoire Naturelle et de Philosophie de Charles Bonnet 4
Traité Théorique et Pratique de la Végétation 4
Triumphs of Temper 4
Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson 4
Bibliothèque Universelle des Romans 3
Description des Arts et Métiers, Faites ou Approuvées par Messieurs de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 3

Book language

English 3479
French 248
Latin 59
Italian 44
Spanish 5
German 2
Greek 2
Saami 1

Book place of publication

London 3148
Edinburgh 504
Paris 235
Leipzig 17
Berlin 13
The Hague 12
Stockholm 10
St Petersburg 9
Göttingen 7
Neuchâtel 7
Oxford 7
Philadelphia 7
Amsterdam 5
Madrid 5
i.e. Amsterdam? 5
Glasgow 3
Naples 3
Bath 2
Canterbury 2
Florence 2
Lille 2
Liège 2
Bern 1
Cambridge 1
Dresden 1
Dublin 1
Jena 1
Leiden 1
Prague 1
Siena 1
Trondheim 1
Turin 1
Valencia 1
Venice 1
Vienna 1

Book format

8vo 2656
4to 686
12mo 298
18mo 61
folio 58
16mo 18
24mo 1

Genre

Periodicals 1396
History 603
Natural Philosophy 481
Sermons 312
Travel 190
Belles Lettres 176
Poetry 173
Theology 128
Medicine 124
Fiction 101
Lives 97
Education 81
Law 64
Drama 61
Politics, Society and Political Economy 58
Philosophy and Morality 51
Reference Works 28
Fine Arts 12
Mathematics 9
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 4

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