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Library

Advocates Library 699
St Andrews University Library 596
Selkirk Library 527
Glasgow University Library 519
Leighton Library 506
Orkney Library 342
Edinburgh University Library 314
Westerkirk 250
Royal High School of Edinburgh 224
Innerpeffray Library 223
Dumfries Presbytery Library 215
Haddington Library 156
Aberdeen Theological Library 113
Wigtown Subscription Library 103
Chambers' Circulating Library 66
Craigston Castle Library 41
Hunterian Museum Library 3
Inverness Kirk Sessions Library 1

Borrower title

Mr 1537
Reverend Mr 324
Mrs 74
Captain 66
Dr 66
Sir 46
Reverend 38
Lieutenant 37
Miss 21
Professor 20
Reverend Dr 11
Major 8
Principal 6
Honourable 4
Lady 4
Right Honourable 4
Prof. 3
Brigadier General 2
Colonel 2
Corporal 2
Bishop 1
Lieutenant Colonel 1
Midshipman 1
Staff Sergeant 1

Borrower gender

Male 4765
Female 111
Unknown 13
Unclear 2

Borrower occupation

Education 1808
University Student 1329
Law 802
Advocate 674
Religion and Clergy 663
Minister/Priest 644
Church of Scotland 570
University Professor 301
School Child 215
Independent Means 197
Arts and Letters 192
Author 157
Military 141
Sheriff 125
Agricultural 123
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 117
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 112
Politics/Office Holders 109
Prisoner of War 98
Tenant 96
Medicine and Health 87
Writer/Procurator 87
Gentleman 80
Farmer 78
Surgeon 70
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 59
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 58
MP (Britain) 54
Presbyterian Seceder 49
Merchants/Traders 35
Barrister 33
Dean of Faculty 31
Navy 31
School Master/Dominie 30
Chaplain 29
Construction 26
Writer to the Signet (WS) 25
Advocate Depute 22
Curator 22
Clerk of Session 21
Customs Collector 21
Judge 19
Notaries/Clerks 18
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 17
Teacher 16
Engineer 15
Tax Collector 15
Physician 14
Service Provision and Hospitality 14
Banker 13
Miscellaneous 13
Army 12
Factor/Agent 12
Lay Preacher 12
Architect 11
Mariner 11
Wife/Spouse 11
Lord Advocate 10
Print and Book Trade 10
Ships Owner 10
Accountant 9
Baron of the Exchequer 9
Grocer 9
Librarian 9
Lord President 9
Lord Provost/Provost 9
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 9
Retailer/Shopkeeper 9
Solicitor-General 9
Unknown denomination 9
Domestic Service 8
Indoor Servants 8
Mason/Miller 8
Poet 8
Episcopalian 7
Land Manager/Factor 7
Surveyor 7
Tanner/Currier 7
Printers 6
Shoemaker 6
Provost 5
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 4
Booksellers 4
Lord Justice Clerk 4
Advocate’s Clerk 3
Bookbinder 3
Clerks 3
Druggist/Chemist/Apothecary 3
Mill Owner 3
Tutor 3
Baillie 2
Brewer 2
Officer 2
Smiths/Metal Workers 2
Watchmaker 2
Widow 2
Active Service/Soldiers 1
Barber 1
Bishop 1
Clerk 1

Author

Sir John Sinclair 357
Henry Home Lord Kames 259
Joseph Addison 250
Marcus Tullius Cicero 211
Adam Smith 169
Adam Ferguson 165
Demosthenes 165
Herman Moll 151
Thomas Salmon 151
Sir William Temple 124
John Witherspoon 119
Baron Charles de Secondat Montesquieu 104
Freiherr von Samuel Pufendorf 76
Patrick Colquhoun 71
Thomas Robert Malthus 69
Henry St John Viscount Bolingbroke 63
Niccolò Machiavelli 53
Major General David Stewart 50
Samuel Ancell 49
Junius 48
Jean Louis De Lolme 47
John Campbell 47
Benjamin Hoadly 46
Aeschines 45
Ange Goudar 45
Richard Lovell Edgeworth 43
Thomas Clarkson 41
John Millar 38
Louis-Sébastien Mercier 35
Francis Bacon 34
Colonel William Fullarton 32
Charles William Vane Marquis of Londonderry 31
William Wilberforce 31
Arthur Edmondston 30
Robert Keith 29
David Hume 27
Johann Georg Zimmermann 25
Alexander von Humboldt 24
Sir James Steuart 24
John Adolphus 23
Michael Hughes Volunteer 23
Alexander Dow 22
Edmund Burke 22
Algernon Sidney 20
Julius Caesar 20
Lysias 20
Mrs A. C. Carmichael 18
William Charles Wentworth 18
Adam Anderson 17
Comte Philippe-Paul Ségur 17
Guy Miege 17
Jean-Baptiste Cant Hanet de Cléry 17
Thomas Hobbes 17
Andrew Wight 16
James Burgh 16
Johann Georg Keyssler 16
John Milton 15
John Robison 15
Anne Grant of Laggan 14
Benjamin Thompson Count Rumford 14
James Maitland Earl of Lauderdale 14
John Gardiner M. D. 14
Peter Miller Cunningham 14
William Cobbett 14
Graf von Benjamin Rumford 13
John Entick 13
John Locke 13
Muḥammad Qāsim Hindū Shāh Astarābādī Firishtah 13
Pliny the Younger 13
Sir Charles William Pasley 13
John Bigland 12
Richard Watson Bishop of Llandaff 12
Sir Paul Rycaut 12
David Ricardo 11
Hannah Ann Bullock 11
Henry Grattan 11
James Anderson 11
James Harrington 11
James Thomson 11
Thomas Somerville 11
William Beckford 11
William Pitt 11
Albert Jean Michel de Rocca 10
Commoner 10
John Knox 10
Samuel Rutherford 10
Thomas Douglas Earl of Selkirk 10
James Cleghorn 9
Lady Sydney Morgan 9
Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine 9
Abbé Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal 8
Antoine Court de Gébelin 8
Charles Francis Sheridan 8
Edward Cooke 8
Edward Ward 8
Gebhard Friedrich August Wendeborn 8
Isocrates 8
John Ramsay McCulloch 8
Jonas Hanway 8
Josiah Tucker 8

Book Work

Statistical Account of Scotland 308
Sketches of the History of Man 243
Works of Joseph Addison 243
Works of Cicero 211
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 169
Essay on the History of Civil Society 165
Modern History: or, The Present State of All Nations 151
Works of John Witherspoon 119
Works of Sir William Temple 112
Spirit of Laws 104
Orations of Demosthenes 90
Of the Law of Nature and Nations 76
Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis 60
Essay on the Principle of Population 58
Works of Niccolò Machiavelli 53
Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland 50
Journal of the Late and Important Blockade and Siege of Gibraltar 49
Letters of Junius 48
Chinese Spy 45
Works of Demosthenes and Aeschines 45
Essay on Irish Bulls 43
Harleian Miscellany: or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts 42
Constitution of England, Or An Account of the English Government 41
History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament 41
General report of the agricultural state, and political circumstances, of Scotland 39
History and Proceedings of the House of Commons from the Restoration to the Present Time 39
View of the English Interests in India 32
Narrative of the Peninsular War, from 1808 to 1813 31
Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians 31
Works of Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke 31
View of the Ancient and Present State of the Zetland Islands 30
Collection of State-Trials, and Proceedings, upon High-Treason, and other Crimes and Misdemeanours, from the Reign of Queen Anne, to the Present Time. Volume IX [-X]. 29
History of the Affairs of Church and State in Scotland 29
Collection of State Tracts, Publish'd on Occasion of the Late Revolution in 1688 27
Political Discourses 27
Political Survey of Britain 26
Essay on National Pride 25
Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain 24
Plain Narrative or Journal of the Late Rebellion, begun in 1745 23
History of England from the Accession of King George the Third to the Conclusion of Peace in 1783 22
History of Hindostan 22
Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy 21
Present State of Europe 21
Commentaries of His Wars in Gaul, and Civil War with Pompey 20
History of John Bull ... as also of the Proceedings in the Case of Margaret, Commonly called Peg, only Lawful Sister to John Bull, Esq 20
Observations Concerning the Distinction of Ranks in Society 20
Tableau de Paris 19
Domestic Manners and Social Condition of the White, Coloured, and Negro Population of the West Indies 18
Essays of Francis Bacon 18
Measures of Submission to the Civil Magistrate Consider'd 18
Origin of the Distinction of Ranks 18
Original and Institution of Civil Government, Discuss'd 18
Statistical, Historical, and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales 18
Discourses Concerning Government 17
Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce 17
History of the Expedition to Russia, undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the year 1812 17
Journal of Occurrences at the Temple, during the Confinement of Louis XVI, King of France 17
Letters, on the Spirit of Patriotism 17
Present State of Great Britain and Ireland 17
Essays upon Several Subjects concerning British Antiquities 16
Political Disquisitions: or, An Enquiry into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses 16
Present State of Husbandry in Scotland 16
Travels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and Lorrain 16
New Picture of Paris 15
Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, carried on in the Secret Meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati, and Reading Societies 15
Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland 14
Essays, Literary, Political, and OEconomical [John Gardiner] 14
Essays, Political, Economical, and Philosophical 14
Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth, and into the Means and Causes of its Increase 14
Two Years in New South Wales; A Series of Letters, Comprising Sketches of the Actual State of Society in that Colony 14
Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions of the British Empire 13
Experimental Essays, Political, Economical, and Philososphical 13
History of Hindostan; from the Earliest Account of Time, to the Death of Akbar 13
Works of Demosthenes 13
Epistles and Panegyricus Traiani [Pliny the Younger] 12
Leviathan 12
Miscellaneous Tracts on Religious, Political, and Agricultural Subjects 12
Orations of Lysias 12
Philippics of Demosthenes 12
Present State of the Ottoman Empire 12
Reflections on the Revolution in France 12
Voyages and Cruises of Commodore Walker, during the Late Spanish and French Wars 12
Descriptive Account of a Part of the Island of Jamaica 11
History of Political Transactions, and of Parties, from the Restoration of King Charles the Second, to the Death of King William 11
History of the Isle of Man 11
Oceana of James Harrington, and His Other Works 11
Principles of Political Economy and Taxation 11
Rise, Progress, and Consequences, of the New Opinions and Principles lately introduced into France 11
Speeches of ... William Pitt in the House of Commons 11
Additions to the Fourth and Former Editions of An Essay on the Principle of Population 10
Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts 10
History of the Public Revenue of the British Empire 10
Lex, Rex: The Law and the Prince 10
Memoirs of the War of the French in Spain 10
Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into Publick Light Several Pieces, of the Works, Civil, Historical, Philosophical, & Theological, Hitherto Sleeping 10
The Extraordinary Red Book 10
View of the British Empire 10
Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates 9
Common Rights of Subjects, Defended 9
France [Lady Morgan] 9

Book language

English 4317
Latin 404
French 158
Greek 113
Italian 7
German 2
Spanish 2

Book place of publication

London 3017
Edinburgh 1270
Geneva 108
Leiden 84
Paris 80
Dublin 65
Amsterdam 59
Glasgow 57
Cambridge 55
Frankfurt am Main 33
Oxford 26
Birmingham 15
Basel 9
Leipzig 8
Rotterdam 8
Warrington 6
Philadelphia 5
The Hague 4
Bouillon 2
Halle 2
Lyon 2
St Petersburg 2
Venice 2
unknown 2
Aberdeen 1
Amiens 1
Amsterdam? 1
Berlin 1
Berwick 1
Braunschweig 1
Brussels 1
Copenhagen 1
Dresden 1
Edinburgh? 1
Göttingen 1
Madrid 1
Preston 1
Rouen 1
S. I. 1
Shrewsbury 1
Stamford 1
The Hague? 1
Turin 1

Book format

8vo 2645
4to 1074
12mo 550
folio 383
18mo 8
16mo 2

Genre

Politics, Society and Political Economy 4898
Belles Lettres 605
Philosophy and Morality 599
History 468
Law 339
Travel 279
Theology 272
Periodicals 245
Lives 195
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 59
Education 20
Medicine 2
Natural Philosophy 2
Poetry 1
Sermons 1

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