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Library

Orkney Library 10916
Selkirk Library 9285
Westerkirk 7265
Royal High School of Edinburgh 6394
Advocates Library 4549
Leighton Library 3241
Wigtown Subscription Library 2923
Haddington Library 1442
Chambers' Circulating Library 1126
Edinburgh University Library 888
Aberdeen Theological Library 878
St Andrews University Library 756
Glasgow University Library 552
Innerpeffray Library 339
Craigston Castle Library 106
Hunterian Museum Library 37
Dumfries Presbytery Library 32

Borrower title

Mr 16988
Reverend Mr 4781
Mrs 1769
Captain 1623
Dr 1057
Lieutenant 860
Miss 716
Reverend 364
Sir 258
Reverend Dr 243
Major 112
Lady 82
Colonel 79
Sous Lieutenant 46
Corporal 36
Professor 32
Brigadier General 26
Sous-Lieutenant 21
Adjudant Major 17
Midshipman 14
Prof. 14
Rev. 14
Right Honourable 13
Honourable 9
Lieutenant Colonel 8
Madame 7
Provost 7
Rev. Mr 6
Principal 5
Honourable Mrs 4
Lord 4
Staff Sergeant 3
Bishop 2
Ensign 2
Mrs General 2
Professor Sir 2
Baron 1
Misses 1
Mrs Captain 1
Rev Mr 1

Borrower gender

Male 47926
Female 2716
Unknown 114
Unclear 9

Borrower occupation

Education 10201
Law 6448
School Child 6366
Religion and Clergy 4544
Advocate 4437
Minister/Priest 4432
Independent Means 3808
Church of Scotland 3677
Military 3364
University Student 2696
Gentleman 2204
Prisoner of War 2041
Agricultural 1696
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 1606
Writer/Procurator 1465
Arts and Letters 1442
Politics/Office Holders 1426
Tenant 1319
Medicine and Health 1311
Sheriff 1176
Author 1146
Farmer 1133
Navy 1111
Surgeon 1010
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 861
University Professor 756
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 696
Customs Collector 486
Merchants/Traders 476
Presbyterian Seceder 393
MP (Britain) 387
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 367
School Master/Dominie 331
Unknown denomination 324
Notaries/Clerks 321
Advocate Depute 311
Physician 290
Tanner/Currier 271
Dean of Faculty 237
Army 234
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 226
Poet 203
Miscellaneous 197
Surveyor 189
Wife/Spouse 187
Lord Provost/Provost 176
Mariner 173
Tax Collector 170
Ships Owner 155
Mason/Miller 148
Teacher 147
Writer to the Signet (WS) 145
Service Provision and Hospitality 140
Clerk of Session 131
Librarian 129
Barrister 125
Construction 112
Land Manager/Factor 111
Banker 108
Print and Book Trade 96
Judge 94
Factor/Agent 86
Booksellers 85
Grocer 77
Accountant 70
Bookbinder 70
Lay Preacher 69
Retailer/Shopkeeper 67
Architect 62
Lord Advocate 62
Solicitor-General 61
Baron of the Exchequer 55
Watchmaker 55
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 54
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 49
Engineer 42
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 33
Chaplain 32
Provost 31
Distiller 26
Clerks 25
Baillie 24
Lord President 24
Brewer 22
Lord Justice Clerk 18
Shoemaker 18
Curator 17
Officer 17
Tutor 17
Publishers 15
Episcopalian 13
Gardener 13
Printers 13
Innkeeper/Tavernkeeper 12
Mill Owner 12
Druggist/Chemist/Apothecary 11
Privateer 11
Dyer 10
Widow 10
Builder 8

Author

Sir Walter Scott 2649
William Fordyce Mavor 1213
Maria Edgeworth 801
Edward Gibbon 681
Robert Henry 618
Robert Burns 520
Tobias George Smollett 515
Dr John Moore 493
Jane Porter 483
William Robertson 476
Doctor Henry Hunter 460
Hugh Blair 447
Frances Burney 440
David Hume 414
Dr James Currie 405
David Brewster 400
Mrs Elizabeth Inchbald 397
Sir John Sinclair 375
Elizabeth Hamilton 374
Mungo Park 372
William Russell 371
Mary Brunton 326
Charlotte Turner Smith 313
Dr Samuel Johnson 310
James Cook 303
Richard Cumberland 303
Ann Radcliffe 295
James Bruce 289
Robert Forsyth 285
William Coxe 285
James Boswell 273
Richard Watson Bishop of Llandaff 224
John Gillies 212
Adam Ferguson 211
Constantin François de Chasseboeuf Comte de Volney 208
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy 208
Charles Rollin 200
James Hogg 187
Thomas Campbell 187
William Paley 184
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 177
Christian Isobel Johnstone 175
George Gordon Byron Lord Byron 175
Thomas Reid 173
Henry Mackenzie 172
Thomas McCrie 172
Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan 166
Johann Lorenz Mosheim 163
William Cowper 163
Anne Grant of Laggan 157
Mary Pilkington 155
George Campbell 152
Hannah More 152
Mrs Anna Maria Bennett 149
Robert Southey 149
Isaac Milner 144
Joseph Milner 144
Amelia Alderson Opie 140
Malcolm Laing 137
Henry Swinburne 134
Laurence Sterne 134
Claude Étienne Savary 133
Edward Daniel Clarke 133
James Beattie 133
John Bell 132
Benjamin Franklin 125
Bryan Edwards 125
John Witherspoon 119
Robert Bisset 119
Baron François Tott 117
Vicesimus Knox 114
John Knox 113
Henry Home Lord Kames 112
William Bingley 111
Ambrose Serle 110
Flavius Josephus 108
Sarah Harriet Burney 108
Dugald Stewart 107
Henry Fielding 107
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 105
William Hayley 105
Alexander von Humboldt 103
Gilbert Stuart 103
Henry Brooke 103
Anders Sparrman 101
D.D. George Lawson 101
John Young 101
William Tennant 101
Adam Smith 100
James Macpherson 99
James Thomson Minister at Quarrelwood 98
Marquis Antoine François Bertrand de Moleville 98
Thomas Mortimer 98
Jane Austen 96
Joseph Hall 96
Benjamin Bell 95
Madame Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël 95
Washington Irving 94
Jean-François Marmontel 93
Robert Heron 93

Book Work

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 2044
Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries [William Fordyce Mavor] 955
Edinburgh Review, or, Critical Journal 886
Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 682
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 622
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 618
Quarterly Review 599
Edinburgh Christian Instructor 583
Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 528
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World 506
Works of Robert Burns 437
History of England [David Hume] 381
Scottish Chiefs, A Romance 369
British Theatre; or, a Collection of Plays ... acted at the Theatre Royal 358
Sacred Biography: or, The History of the Patriarchs from Adam to Abraham 356
Statistical Account of Scotland 308
History of Modern Europe 302
Voyage to the Pacific Ocean 297
Tales of my Landlord [First Series] 294
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797 290
Bible 289
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile [James Bruce] 282
Beauties of Scotland: Containing a ... Full Account of the Agriculture, Commerce, Mines, and Manufactures 279
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 260
Works of William Robertson 247
Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress 240
Encyclopaedia Britannica 232
Zeluco 225
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark 221
History of England [Tobias Smollett] 218
History of Ancient Greece, its Colonies and Conquests 209
Popular Tales [Maria Edgeworth] 208
Works of Samuel Johnson 208
Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece 207
Travels through Syria and Egypt, in the Years 1783, 1784, and 1785 205
Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians 200
Monthly Review. A Periodical Work, Giving an Account ... of, and Extracts from, the New Books, Pamphlets, &c. 199
Ivanhoe; a Romance 195
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres 187
Antiquary 186
Scots Magazine 185
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border 184
Guy Mannering; or, the Astrologer 178
Don Quixote 176
New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal 174
Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since 171
Cottagers of Glenburnie 164
History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic 164
Abbot 157
British Tourists; or, Traveller's Pocket Companion through England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland 155
Collection of Theological Tracts, in Six Volumes [Richard Watson] 150
Lady of the Lake, a Poem 150
Rob Roy 149
History of the Church of Christ ... Revised and Corrected by Isaac Milner 144
Life of Samuel Johnson [James Boswell] 143
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 137
Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley 136
Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa 133
Works of Laurence Sterne 132
Coelebs in Search of a Wife 130
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 130
Tales of Fashionable Life 130
Works of Lord Byron 130
British Essayists 129
Tales of my Landlord [Third Series] 127
New Annual Register 126
History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies 125
Travels from St Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia 121
Monastery. A Romance 119
Works of John Witherspoon 119
Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett 117
Marmion; A Tale of Flodden Field 116
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 115
Thaddeus of Warsaw 114
Travels through Spain, in the Years 1775 and 1776 113
Ecclesiastical History [Johann Lorenz Mosheim] 112
Mysteries of Udolpho 110
Kenilworth, a Romance 109
Letters on Egypt [Claude Étienne Savary] 108
Works of Flavius Josephus 108
Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man 103
Fool of Quality, or, The History of Henry Earl of Moreland 103
Memoirs of Baron de Tott. Containing the State of the Turkish Empire and the Crimea, during the Late War with Russia 103
Clan-Albin: A National Tale 101
Pleasures of Hope 101
Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World 101
Sermons on Various Practical Subjects [John Young] 100
Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle 99
Four Gospels, Translated from the Greek 99
History of America [William Robertson] 99
Letters from the Mountains 99
Poems of Ossian 99
Eclectic Review 98
Harrington, A Tale, and Ormond, A Tale 98
Lay of the Last Minstrel, a Poem 98
British Plutarch 97
Works of the British poets 97
Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testament 96
Life of John Knox ... To which is Subjoined an Appendix Consisting of Letters 95
History of Scotland, from the Establishment of the Reformation, till the Death of Queen Mary 93

Book language

English 49381
French 885
Latin 215
German 98
Italian 72
Greek 38
Spanish 14
Hebrew 13
Gaelic 8
Icelandic 3
Scots 3
Urdu 2
Arabic 1
Russian 1

Book place of publication

London 32693
Edinburgh 15675
Paris 702
Glasgow 466
Perth 353
Liverpool 270
Cambridge 252
Dublin 181
Bath 154
New York 144
Aberdeen 128
Oxford 124
Paisley 93
York 72
Kelso 71
Leith 70
Hawick 68
Philadelphia 66
Leipzig 64
Carlisle 60
Cupar-Fife 59
Geneva 53
Dundee 50
Chichester 42
Berlin 41
Belfast 36
Bristol 35
Kehl 35
Birmingham 34
Amsterdam 33
Macclesfield 33
Warrington 33
Montrose 25
Doncaster 22
Göttingen 22
Leeds 19
Inverness 18
Dumfries 17
Stirling 17
Madrid 15
Stuttgart 14
Strasbourg 13
St Petersburg 12
The Hague 12
Copenhagen 11
Stockholm 11
Newcastle 10
Ayr 9
Boston 9
Newark 8
Venice 8
Gotha 7
Leiden 7
Neuchâtel 7
Calcutta 6
Dunfermline 6
Manchester 6
Padua 6
Cork 5
Exeter 5
Hamburg 5
Naples 5
Newcastle upon Tyne 5
Norwich 5
Stockport 5
i.e. Amsterdam? 5
Altenburg 4
Burlington 4
Edinburguh 4
Florence 4
Frankfurt am Main 4
Hafod 4
Lausanne 4
Mannheim 4
Milan 4
Pwllpeiran 4
Vienna 4
Winchester 4
Arbroath 3
Clipstone 3
Gloucester 3
Jena 3
Kingston, Jamaica 3
Maastricht 3
Reading 3
Salisbury 3
Tübingen 3
Utrecht 3
Zweibrücken 3
Caen 2
Chiswick 2
Dessau 2
Dresden 2
Edinburgh? 2
Halle 2
Hanover 2
Heidelberg 2
Hereford 2
Königsberg 2
Lille 2

Book format

8vo 27989
12mo 11340
4to 5735
18mo 1268
folio 1096
16mo 184
24mo 2
14mo 1
score 1

Genre

Fiction 10695
Travel 8651
Periodicals 6530
History 6321
Lives 3978
Theology 3773
Poetry 3467
Belles Lettres 2325
Sermons 1970
Politics, Society and Political Economy 1764
Philosophy and Morality 1118
Natural Philosophy 1103
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 1096
Reference Works 774
Drama 730
Medicine 586
Education 511
Law 395
Fine Arts 106
Mathematics 103
Miscellaneous/Other 1

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