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Library Leighton Library 1006 Advocates Library 788 Royal High School of Edinburgh 274 Orkney Library 243 Chambers' Circulating Library 204 Selkirk Library 192 Haddington Library 103 Glasgow University Library 53 St Andrews University Library 38 Edinburgh University Library 24 Aberdeen Theological Library 12 Innerpeffray Library 5 Hunterian Museum Library 2
Borrower title Mr 1021 Reverend Mr 696 Reverend Dr 253 Dr 241 Mrs 144 Lady 70 Sir 61 Professor 45 Reverend 4
Borrower gender Male 2730 Female 214
Borrower occupation Arts and Letters 2944 Author 2944 Religion and Clergy 1227 Minister/Priest 1187 Law 975 Advocate 789 Church of Scotland 787 Education 377 Presbyterian Seceder 374 Sheriff 324 University Professor 322 Poet 208 Politics/Office Holders 156 Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 137 Clerk of Session 124 Commerce, Trade, and Finance 68 Independent Means 62 Landowner/Landlord/Laird 62 Baron of the Exchequer 61 Lord Provost/Provost 61 Medicine and Health 55 Banker 54 Customs Collector 53 Physician 50 Surveyor 42 Lay Preacher 36 Tutor 36 Barrister 32 Bishop 24 Episcopalian 24 University Student 20 Merchants/Traders 14 Writer to the Signet (WS) 12 Miscellaneous 11 Widow 11 Surgeon 5 Advocate Depute 4 Elder 4 Writer/Procurator 4 Solicitor-General 2 Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 1 Notaries/Clerks 1 Unknown denomination 1
Author Sir Walter Scott 45 Sir John Sinclair 37 William Robertson 33 David Hume 30 Richard Watson Bishop of Llandaff 23 Hugh Blair 19 George Campbell 17 Charles Rollin 16 Thomas Reid 16 Henry Home Lord Kames 15 Virgil 15 Mrs Elizabeth Inchbald 14 Simon Patrick Bishop of Ely 14 Dr John Moore 13 Dugald Stewart 13 Maria Edgeworth 13 William Paley 13 Gilbert Burnet 12 James Beattie 12 James Macpherson 12 Terence 12 Edward Gibbon 11 Elizabeth Hamilton 11 Cornelius Tacitus 10 Dr Samuel Johnson 10 John Spottiswood 10 John Strype 10 Tobias George Smollett 10 William Guthrie 10 Claude Étienne Savary 9 Jean-Jacques Barthélemy 9 Malcolm Laing 9 Richard Hurd 9 Voltaire 9 William Warburton 9 Vicesimus Knox 8 John Knox 8 John Millar 8 Marcus Tullius Cicero 8 Mary Russell Mitford 8 Mungo Park 8 William Coxe 8 William Russell 8 Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon 7 George Chalmers 7 Henry Mackenzie 7 John Banim 7 John Campbell 7 Michael Banim 7 Robert Burns 7 Robert Lowth 7 Royal Society of Edinburgh 7 William Hayley 7 Adam Smith 6 Benjamin Hoadly 6 Charles de Brosses 6 Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton 6 Frederick II King of Prussia 6 James Boswell 6 James Macknight 6 Jean-Baptiste Massillon 6 Jeremiah Seed 6 Johann Lorenz Mosheim 6 John Leland 6 John Owen 6 John Pinkerton 6 Joseph Addison 6 Marie Huber 6 Oliver Goldsmith 6 Plutarch 6 Robert Henry 6 Robert Leighton 6 Sir David Dalrymple Lord Hailes 6 Sir Ralph Sadler 6 Thomas Innes 6 Thomas Percival 6 Thomas Stackhouse 6 Adam Ferguson 5 Arthur Edmondston 5 Conyers Middleton 5 Daniel Defoe 5 Daniel Neal 5 Frances Burney 5 Henry Fielding 5 Hugo Arnot 5 Jacques Saurin 5 James Sibbald 5 Jane Austen 5 Jeremy Taylor 5 John Barclay 5 John Bell 5 John Erskine 5 John Jamieson 5 John Milton 5 Marquise de Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Sévigné 5 Noël Antoine Pluche 5 Philip Doddridge 5 Pliny the Younger 5 Polybius 5 Richard Graves 5
Book Work Encyclopaedia Britannica 36 Statistical Account of Scotland 36 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 27 History of England [David Hume] 27 Edinburgh Review, or, Critical Journal 18 New Annual Register 17 Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill 16 British Theatre; or, a Collection of Plays ... acted at the Theatre Royal 14 Collection of Theological Tracts, in Six Volumes [Richard Watson] 14 Quarterly Review 14 Commentary upon the Historical Books of the Old Testament Part 1 13 History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and King James VI 13 New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal 13 Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 12 Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians 11 Comedies [Terence] 11 History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V 11 Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres 11 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 10 History of the Church of Scotland, Beginning the Year of our Lord 203, and Continued to the End of the Reign of King James the VI 10 Works of Tacitus 10 Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man 9 General History of Scotland [William Guthrie] 9 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 9 Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece 9 Works of Virgil 9 Chemical Essays [Richard Watson] 8 History of Modern Europe 8 Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery 8 Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797 8 Works of Voltaire 8 Biographia Britannica: or, the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons who have Flourished in Great Britain and Ireland 7 British Essayists 7 Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated, on the Principes of a Religious Deist 7 Four Gospels, Translated from the Greek 7 Historie of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland 7 Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy 7 Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 7 Continuation of the Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews, Chapters 6-10 6 Critical Essay on the Ancient Inhabitants of the Northern parts of Britain, or Scotland 6 Discourses on Several Important Subjects [Jeremiah Seed] 6 Ecclesiastical History, Antient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Present Century 6 Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind 6 Essays on the Active Powers of Man 6 Harmony of the Four Gospels 6 Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes 6 History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 6 Lives [Plutarch] 6 New History of the Holy Bible 6 Posthumous Works of Frederick II King of Prussia 6 Sermons [Hugh Blair] 6 Sermons of Jean-Baptiste Massillon 6 Account of the Life and Writings of William Robertson 5 Annals of Scotland [David Dalrymple] 5 Caledonia: or, An Account, Historical and Topographic, of North Britain 5 Chronicle of Scottish Poetry; From the Thirteenth Century, to the Union of the Crowns 5 Cottagers of Glenburnie 5 Edinburgh Christian Instructor 5 General History of Stirlingshire 5 Histories [Polybius] 5 History and Proceedings of the House of Commons from the Restoration to the Present Time 5 History of the Puritans [Daniel Neal] 5 History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641 5 Horae Paulinae, or The Truth of the Scripture History of St Paul Evinced 5 Institute of the Law of Scotland 5 Letters on Greece: Being a Sequel to Letters on Egypt 5 Lettres sur la Religion Essentielle à l'Homme, Distinguée de ce qui n'en est que l'Accessoire 5 Modern Part of the Universal History 5 Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions [Robert South] 5 Spiritual Quixote: or, The Summer's Ramble of Mr Geoffry Wildgoose 5 Tales by the O'Hara Family. Second Series. Comprising The Nowlans, and Peter of the Castle 5 Travels from St Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia 5 Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark 5 View of the Ancient and Present State of the Zetland Islands 5 Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans, in the Years 1789 and 1793 5 Works of Cicero 5 Works of Horace 5 Zeluco 5 Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time 4 Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress 4 Criterion; or, Rules by which the True Miracles Recorded in the New Testament are Distinguished from the Spurious Miracles of Pagans and Papists 4 Critica Sacra [Edward Leigh] 4 Dissertations Moral and Critical 4 Dr Goldsmith's Roman History abridged by Himself for the Use of Schools 4 Enquiry into the History of Scotland Preceding the Reign of Malcom III 4 Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species 4 Essays, Political, Economical, and Philosophical 4 Evidences of the Christian Religion; Briefly and Plainly Stated 4 General Description of China 4 Historical View of the English Government, from the Settlement of the Saxons in Britain to the Accession of the House of Stewart 4 History of America [William Robertson] 4 History of Rome [Livy] 4 History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic 4 History of the Reformation in Scotland [George Cook] 4 History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, from the Restauration [sic] to the Revolution 4 Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 4 Introduction to the Study of the Prophecies Concerning the Christian Church 4 Isaiah. A New Translation; with a Preliminary Dissertation, and Notes Critical, Philological, and Explanatory 4 Lay of the Last Minstrel, a Poem 4 Letters on Egypt [Claude Étienne Savary] 4
Book language English 2196 Latin 282 French 151 Greek 33 Italian 23 German 4 Hebrew 4 Spanish 4 Scots 3 Gaelic 2 Arabic 1 Icelandic 1 Russian 1 Various 1 Welsh 1
Book place of publication London 1611 Edinburgh 533 Paris 104 Amsterdam 41 Oxford 37 Glasgow 33 Leiden 29 Geneva 23 Dublin 21 The Hague 21 Lyon 17 Basel 16 Cambridge 16 Venice 15 Frankfurt am Main 13 Leipzig 11 Neuchâtel 8 Copenhagen 7 Perth 7 Bath 6 Warrington 6 Florence 5 Utrecht 5 York 4 Halle 3 Kehl 3 Kelso 3 Nuremberg 3 St Petersburg 3 Aberdeen 2 Aldershot 2 Antwerp 2 Berlin 2 Chester 2 Cologne 2 Dundee 2 Frankfurt 2 Hamburg 2 Liverpool 2 Louvain 2 New York 2 Philadelphia 2 Rotterdam 2 Rouen 2 Zurich 2 Altdorf 1 Amberg 1 Anvers 1 Bergamo 1 Birmingham 1 Bologna 1 Brussels 1 Burgos 1 Caen 1 Chambéry 1 Chichester 1 Chiswick 1 Cordoba 1 Delft 1 Douai 1 Erlangen 1 Frankfurt an der Oder 1 Giessen 1 Gloucester 1 Hafod 1 Hague 1 Hanover 1 Hawick 1 Ingolstadt 1 Königsberg 1 La Rochelle 1 Lausanne 1 Leith 1 Liège 1 Luxembourg 1 Madrid 1 Mainz 1 Marseille 1 Milan 1 Naples 1 Newcastle 1 Newcastle upon Tyne 1 Osnabrück 1 Padua 1 Paisley 1 Pisa 1 Preston 1 Pwllpeiran 1 Rome 1 S. I. 1 Southwark 1 Strasbourg 1 Turin 1 Uppsala 1 Wittenberg 1 Zierizee 1 i.e. Aberdeen? 1 unknown 1
Book format 8vo 1242 4to 556 12mo 408 folio 324 18mo 22 16mo 3 24mo 1
Genre History 617 Theology 308 Fiction 280 Lives 271 Travel 250 Belles Lettres 185 Poetry 174 Periodicals 159 Politics, Society and Political Economy 157 Law 147 Philosophy and Morality 129 Sermons 90 Natural Philosophy 82 Reference Works 79 Drama 57 Education 48 Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 39 Medicine 38 Fine Arts 14 Mathematics 7 Miscellaneous/Other 1
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