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Library

Royal High School of Edinburgh 3634
Selkirk Library 2033
Westerkirk 1650
St Andrews University Library 1398
Leighton Library 1331
Advocates Library 1251
Glasgow University Library 1194
Edinburgh University Library 985
Innerpeffray Library 834
Haddington Library 676
Aberdeen Theological Library 552
Wigtown Subscription Library 233
Orkney Library 182
Craigston Castle Library 120
Hunterian Museum Library 47
Dumfries Presbytery Library 29
Chambers' Circulating Library 20
Inverness Kirk Sessions Library 1

Borrower title

Mr 3142
Reverend Mr 880
Dr 248
Lieutenant 166
Captain 163
Mrs 163
Sir 130
Reverend 108
Miss 93
Professor 58
Reverend Dr 39
Colonel 16
Midshipman 16
Sous Lieutenant 16
Corporal 10
Right Honourable 9
Major 8
Brigadier General 6
Prof. 6
Rev. 6
Lady 5
Principal 5
Sous-Lieutenant 5
Rev. Mr 3
Misses 2
Adjudant Major 1
Bishop 1
Honourable 1
Lieutenant Colonel 1
Lord 1
Ms 1
Provost 1
Rev Mr 1

Borrower gender

Male 15812
Female 324
Unknown 26
Unclear 9

Borrower occupation

Education 7832
School Child 3571
University Student 3228
Law 1475
Advocate 1203
Religion and Clergy 1201
University Professor 1118
Minister/Priest 1111
Church of Scotland 961
Military 608
Prisoner of War 521
Agricultural 379
Independent Means 361
Arts and Letters 325
Tenant 303
Sheriff 295
Author 277
Farmer 244
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 221
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 195
Medicine and Health 190
Politics/Office Holders 184
Surgeon 178
Writer/Procurator 164
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 149
Gentleman 140
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 132
MP (Britain) 129
Presbyterian Seceder 123
Merchants/Traders 106
Dean of Faculty 94
School Master/Dominie 87
Notaries/Clerks 82
Chaplain 78
Teacher 73
Judge 64
Navy 61
Construction 60
Lay Preacher 52
Advocate Depute 50
Clerk of Session 50
Print and Book Trade 43
Printers 43
Army 37
Lord Advocate 34
Baron of the Exchequer 33
Banker 31
Engineer 31
Miscellaneous 31
Architect 29
Dyer 28
Service Provision and Hospitality 28
Writer to the Signet (WS) 27
Librarian 23
Customs Collector 21
Barrister 20
Land Manager/Factor 20
Retailer/Shopkeeper 20
Tanner/Currier 20
Clerks 19
Poet 19
Mason/Miller 18
Lord President 17
Provost 17
Grocer 16
Solicitor-General 16
Widow 16
Lord Provost/Provost 15
Wife/Spouse 15
Factor/Agent 14
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 14
Baillie 13
Curator 13
Watchmaker 13
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 12
Officer 11
Accountant 10
Clerk 10
Episcopalian 10
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 10
Physician 9
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 7
Mariner 6
Brewer 5
Mill Owner 5
Unknown denomination 5
Lord Justice Clerk 4
Shoemaker 4
Tutor 4
Distiller 3
Druggist/Chemist/Apothecary 3
Painter/Limner 3
Publishers 3
Ships Captain 3
Surveyor 3
Advocate’s Clerk 2
Bishop 2
Booksellers 2
Food Provision/Preparation 2
Gardener 2

Author

Oliver Goldsmith 1027
Charles Rollin 866
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon 690
William Robertson 471
Plutarch 304
Dr John Moore 294
Hugh Blair 263
Robert Watson 251
Frances Burney 250
Henry Fielding 249
Robert Henry 243
Henry Home Lord Kames 242
Samuel Ward 234
Edward Gibbon 205
Dr Samuel Johnson 189
Abbé Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal 177
Thomas Mortimer 165
Ralph Erskine 153
Thomas Pennant 153
William Russell 152
Johann Lorenz Mosheim 146
Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield 144
Hugo Arnot 143
David Hume 133
Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall 132
Henry Mackenzie 130
John Campbell 127
James Beattie 120
Richard Graves 115
Patrick Brydone 110
Adam Smith 108
Gilbert Stuart 107
Royal Society (Great Britain) 103
Sir David Dalrymple Lord Hailes 98
John Newton 97
Reverend David Lamont 92
Voltaire 90
George Campbell 87
Samuel Richardson 84
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (France) 82
Joseph Addison 82
Sir Richard Steele 81
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 79
Jean-François Marmontel 78
Vicesimus Knox 76
Ambrose Serle 73
John Toland 66
James Burnet Lord Monboddo 63
Alexander Gerard 61
Georg Forster 61
Joseph Priestley 61
Thomas Harmer 60
Robert Lowth 57
Thomas Parnell 56
Abbé Claude François Xavier Millot 53
Thomas Sherlock 52
Eyles Irwin 51
William Cowper 51
George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton 50
Homer 49
Catherine Macaulay 46
Humphrey Prideaux 45
Constantine John Phipps Baron Mulgrave 44
James Ferguson 44
Sir William Blackstone 44
George Anson Baron Anson 43
Percivall Pott 43
Johann Georg Zimmermann 40
William Alexander 40
Clara Reeve 39
Pietro Metastasio 39
Samuel Jackson Pratt 39
Reverend Augustus Toplady 38
Anton de Haen 37
Pope Clement XIV 37
Cardinal Jean François Paul de Gondi de Retz 34
Jonathan Edwards 34
Andrew Gray 33
Laurence Sterne 33
Thomas Newton Bishop of Bristol 33
Henry Brooke 32
James Macpherson 32
John Hawkesworth 32
Richard Chandler 32
William Nimmo 32
James Riddoch 31
Robert Lindsay 31
William Shakespeare 31
Comtesse Stéphanie Félicité Genlis 30
George Ridpath 30
John Smith 30
François Gayot de Pitaval 29
Johann David Michaelis 29
Paul François Velly 29
Tobias George Smollett 29
James Burrow 28
Henry Swinburne 27
Jacob Bryant 27
William Coxe 27
James Lind 26

Book Work

Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians 866
Natural History, General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon 684
Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 547
History of the Earth, and Animated Nature 470
History of America [William Robertson] 427
Lives [Plutarch] 303
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 263
History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain 251
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 243
Works of Henry Fielding 238
Modern System of Natural History 234
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 205
Abridgment of the History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar, to the Death of George II 201
Monthly Review. A Periodical Work, Giving an Account ... of, and Extracts from, the New Books, Pamphlets, &c. 199
Scots Magazine 185
Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress 179
Grecian History, from the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great 170
Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies 169
British Plutarch 162
View of Society and Manners in Italy 154
Sermons, and Other Practical Works [Ralph Erskine] 153
History of Modern Europe 152
Sketches of the History of Man 152
View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany 145
History of Edinburgh 143
Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope 130
Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides; MDCCLXXII 129
New Annual Register 126
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 115
Bell's British Theatre 110
Tour Through Sicily and Malta. In a Series of Letters to William Beckford 110
History of England [David Hume] 105
Philosophical Transactions: Giving some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World 103
Essays [James Beattie] 99
Ecclesiastical History [Johann Lorenz Mosheim] 98
Sermons on the Most Prevalent Vices [David Lamont] 92
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 90
Lives of the English Poets 90
Vicar of Wakefield 89
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
Philosophy of Rhetoric 87
History of Sir Charles Grandison 84
Memoirs of the Kings of France, of the Race of Valois 81
Spectator 81
Julia de Roubigné 80
Annals of Scotland [David Dalrymple] 78
Spiritual Quixote: or, The Summer's Ramble of Mr Geoffry Wildgoose 77
Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland 76
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres 75
Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau 74
Horae Solitariae 73
Evelina, or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World 71
Incas: or, The Destruction of the Empire of Peru 68
History of Scotland, from the Establishment of the Reformation, till the Death of Queen Mary 67
Van Swieten's Commentaries Abridged 66
Lives of the Admirals and Other Eminent British Seamen 61
Voyage Round the World, in His Britannic Majesty's Sloop, Resolution 61
Observations on Divers Passages of Scripture 60
Of the Origin and Progress of Language 58
Poetical Works of Thomas Parnell 56
Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill 56
Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith 54
Discourses Preached on Several Occasions [Thomas Sherlock] 52
Elements of General History 52
Several Discourses Preached at the Temple Church [Thomas Sherlock] 52
Isaiah. A New Translation; with a Preliminary Dissertation, and Notes Critical, Philological, and Explanatory 51
Series of Adventures in the Course of a Voyage up the Red-Sea 51
Tour through some of the Northern Parts of Europe 51
Essays Moral and Literary 50
Mirror 49
Ecclesiastical History, Antient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Present Century 48
Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time to the Present 48
History of England [Catherine Macaulay] 46
Masquerades; or, What You Will 46
Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations 45
Works of George Lord Lyttelton 45
Tour in Scotland, MDCCLXIX 44
Voyage Towards the North Pole Undertaken by His Majesty's Command 1773 44
Chirurgical Works of Percivall Pott 43
Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV 43
Cardiphonia: or, The Utterance of the Heart; in the Course of a Real Correspondence 42
Essay on Genius 42
Medical Commentaries [Andrew Duncan] 41
History of Women, from the Earliest Antiquity, to the Present Time 40
Lives of the British Admirals: Containing a New and Accurate Naval History 40
Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air 39
Old English Baron: A Gothic Story 39
Poesie del Signor Abate Pietro Metastasio 39
Posthumous Works [Augustus Toplady] 38
Columella; or, The Distressed Anchoret 37
Interesting Letters of Pope Clement XIV 37
Ratio Medendi in Nosocomio Practico Vindobonensi 37
Solitude; or The Effect of Occasional Retirement on the Mind, the Heart, General Society, in Exile, in Old Age, and on the Bed of Death 37
Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Optics 36
Commentaries on the Laws of England 35
History of the Work of Redemption 34
Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz 34
Delineation of the Parables of Our Blessed Saviour 33
Fool of Quality, or, The History of Henry Earl of Moreland 32
General History of Stirlingshire 32

Book language

English 15194
French 683
Latin 223
Italian 59
Greek 56
Spanish 18
German 9
Icelandic 4
Saami 1

Book place of publication

London 12376
Edinburgh 2399
Paris 441
Glasgow 195
Dublin 167
Oxford 131
The Hague 65
Aberdeen 48
Amsterdam 48
Warrington 48
Chester 46
Vienna 43
Bath 38
Leipzig 37
Cambridge 34
Geneva 33
Neuchâtel 33
Berwick 30
York 25
Dumfries 21
Newcastle upon Tyne 18
Madrid 17
Stirling 17
Göttingen 16
Newcastle 15
Berlin 14
Stockholm 14
Liège 13
St Petersburg 13
Naples 12
Shrewsbury 12
Parma 10
Birmingham 9
Florence 8
Rotterdam 8
Philadelphia 7
Copenhagen 5
Rome 5
i.e. Amsterdam? 5
Berwick upon Tweed 4
Leiden 4
Maastricht 4
Manchester 4
Perth 4
Strasbourg 4
Grenoble 3
Halle 3
Kendal 3
Norwich 3
Twickenham 3
Altona 2
Bremen 2
Bristol 2
Canterbury 2
Charlestown 2
Dessau 2
Dijon 2
Eton 2
Fribourg 2
Lille 2
Paisley 2
Valencia 2
Venice 2
Altenburg 1
Bern 1
Bouillon 1
Copenhagen? 1
Dresden 1
Frankfurt am Main 1
Jena 1
Lausanne 1
Leeds 1
Leeuwarden 1
Lyon 1
Nuremberg 1
Prague 1
Siena 1
Trondheim 1
Turin 1
Verona 1
Yverdon 1
i.e. Paris? 1
unknown 1

Book format

8vo 9813
4to 2901
12mo 2886
folio 232
18mo 135
16mo 18
unknown 2
24mo 1
score 1

Genre

History 4499
Natural Philosophy 1887
Periodicals 1723
Fiction 1380
Travel 1363
Lives 1265
Belles Lettres 989
Theology 918
Sermons 874
Poetry 631
Politics, Society and Political Economy 517
Medicine 483
Philosophy and Morality 441
Law 287
Drama 262
Education 242
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 134
Reference Works 105
Fine Arts 57
Mathematics 34

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