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Library

Royal High School of Edinburgh 1760
Selkirk Library 865
Westerkirk 797
Leighton Library 692
Glasgow University Library 643
Advocates Library 641
St Andrews University Library 382
Edinburgh University Library 357
Innerpeffray Library 311
Aberdeen Theological Library 292
Wigtown Subscription Library 67
Orkney Library 59
Craigston Castle Library 38
Hunterian Museum Library 20
Dumfries Presbytery Library 13
Chambers' Circulating Library 5
Haddington Library 4
Inverness Kirk Sessions Library 1

Borrower title

Mr 1448
Reverend Mr 445
Dr 104
Captain 84
Mrs 67
Lieutenant 59
Sir 57
Reverend 50
Miss 44
Professor 26
Reverend Dr 18
Midshipman 10
Sous Lieutenant 10
Right Honourable 8
Major 6
Corporal 4
Principal 4
Prof. 4
Rev. 4
Colonel 3
Lady 3
Rev Mr 1
Rev. Mr 1
Sous-Lieutenant 1

Borrower gender

Male 6808
Female 131
Unclear 3

Borrower occupation

Education 3410
School Child 1735
University Student 1194
Law 729
Advocate 598
University Professor 546
Religion and Clergy 519
Minister/Priest 497
Church of Scotland 437
Military 258
Prisoner of War 217
Agricultural 153
Arts and Letters 152
Independent Means 146
Sheriff 131
Author 126
Tenant 123
Farmer 106
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 99
Politics/Office Holders 88
Medicine and Health 86
Surgeon 83
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 82
Writer/Procurator 80
MP (Britain) 66
Gentleman 64
Dean of Faculty 59
Notaries/Clerks 54
Presbyterian Seceder 53
Chaplain 46
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 38
Construction 36
Navy 34
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 30
Clerk of Session 26
Judge 26
Merchants/Traders 26
Advocate Depute 24
Architect 24
School Master/Dominie 24
Lay Preacher 18
Print and Book Trade 17
Printers 17
Baron of the Exchequer 15
Librarian 15
Lord Advocate 15
Army 14
Banker 12
Barrister 12
Engineer 12
Baillie 11
Clerks 11
Writer to the Signet (WS) 10
Lord President 9
Poet 9
Solicitor-General 9
Customs Collector 8
Factor/Agent 8
Teacher 8
Dyer 7
Miscellaneous 7
Curator 5
Land Manager/Factor 5
Mason/Miller 5
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 5
Tanner/Currier 5
Wife/Spouse 5
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 4
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 4
Officer 4
Lord Justice Clerk 3
Mariner 3
Physician 3
Ships Captain 3
Advocate’s Clerk 2
Booksellers 2
Episcopalian 2
Lord Provost/Provost 2
Mill Owner 2
Publishers 2
Retailer/Shopkeeper 2
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 2
Watchmaker 2
Widow 2
Brewer 1
Secretary of State 1
Service Provision and Hospitality 1
Surveyor 1
Tutor 1
Unknown denomination 1

Author

Charles Rollin 851
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon 690
Robert Henry 243
Hugh Blair 240
William Robertson 230
Dr John Moore 225
Frances Burney 179
Edward Gibbon 117
Johann Lorenz Mosheim 101
William Russell 101
Reverend David Lamont 92
Samuel Richardson 84
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (France) 82
Gilbert Stuart 79
Ambrose Serle 73
Dr Samuel Johnson 68
James Burnet Lord Monboddo 60
Eyles Irwin 51
Abbé Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal 50
Henry Mackenzie 49
Catherine Macaulay 42
John Newton 42
Pietro Metastasio 39
Reverend Augustus Toplady 38
James Riddoch 31
Vicesimus Knox 30
Comtesse Stéphanie Félicité Genlis 30
John Smith 30
Samuel Jackson Pratt 30
James Burrow 28
Thomas Newton Bishop of Bristol 27
John Hawkesworth 24
John Rickman 23
Helenus Scott 22
Henry Home Lord Kames 22
William Cowper 22
Louis-Sébastien Mercier 20
William Shakespeare 20
Alexander Gerard 19
John Pinkerton 19
Royal College of Physicians of London 19
Thomas Warton 19
William Lothian 18
Joseph Warton 17
Jean Frédéric Ostervald 16
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 16
John Millar 16
Wolfgang Seber 16
Alexander Pope 15
Samuel Foote 15
Jean le Rond d' Alembert 14
William Hayley 14
Abbé Prévost 13
Denis Diderot 13
James Dunbar 13
James Harris 13
Académie royale des sciences et belles lettres (Berlin, Germany) 11
Adam Smith 11
Francis Home 11
Henry Fielding 11
Jean André de Luc 11
John Gast 11
Oliver Goldsmith 11
Thomas Davies 11
Tiberius Cavallo 11
William Coxe 11
Charles Cordiner 10
George Carr 10
Nathaniel Lardner 10
Voltaire 10
William Bell 10
Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences 9
Henri François d' Aguesseau 9
Horace Bénédict de Saussure 9
Sir John Sinclair 9
Sir William Blackstone 9
Uno von Troil 9
Antoine Court de Gébelin 8
Charles Johnstone 8
Henry Taylor 8
Johann Joachim Winckelmann 8
John Weskett 8
Laurence Sterne 8
Richard Wavell 8
Sir Isaac Newton 8
Society of Antiquaries of London 8
Alexander Monro 7
Barthelemy Mouffle d'Angerville 7
Hugo Grotius 7
John M'Farlan 7
John Mainwaring 7
John Nichols 7
Joseph Priestley 7
Josiah Tucker 7
Charles Combe 6
Euripides 6
Girolamo Tiraboschi 6
James Stuart 6
Jean Sylvain Bailly 6
John Talbot Clerk Lord Eldin 6

Book Work

Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians 851
Natural History, General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon 684
Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 545
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 243
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 240
Monthly Review. A Periodical Work, Giving an Account ... of, and Extracts from, the New Books, Pamphlets, &c. 199
History of America [William Robertson] 188
Scots Magazine 185
Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress 179
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
History of Modern Europe 101
Ecclesiastical History [Johann Lorenz Mosheim] 98
Sermons on the Most Prevalent Vices [David Lamont] 92
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
History of Sir Charles Grandison 84
View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany 76
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres 75
Horae Solitariae 73
History of Scotland, from the Establishment of the Reformation, till the Death of Queen Mary 67
Lives of the English Poets 64
Of the Origin and Progress of Language 58
Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill 56
Series of Adventures in the Course of a Voyage up the Red-Sea 51
Mirror 49
Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time to the Present 48
Masquerades; or, What You Will 46
Cardiphonia: or, The Utterance of the Heart; in the Course of a Real Correspondence 42
History of England [Catherine Macaulay] 42
Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies 42
Medical Commentaries [Andrew Duncan] 41
Poesie del Signor Abate Pietro Metastasio 39
Posthumous Works [Augustus Toplady] 38
Mirror [Edinburgh] 32
Sermons on Several Subjects and Occasions [James Riddoch] 31
Emma Corbett; or, The Miseries of Civil War 30
Galic Antiquities: Consisting of a History of the Druids 30
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
Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, since the Death of Lord Raymond 28
Works of the Right Reverend Thomas Newton 27
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
History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V 25
Almoran and Hamet, An Oriental Tale 24
Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, on Discovery 23
Adventures of a Rupee 22
Loose Hints upon Education, Chiefly Concerning the Culture of the Heart 22
Poems [William Cowper] 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
Sermons [Alexander Gerard] 19
Supplement to the Edition of Shakspeare's Plays published in 1778 by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens 19
Tableau de Paris 19
History of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, from the Death of Philip II. King of Spain, to the Truce made with Albert and Isabella 18
Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope 17
History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and King James VI 17
Index Vocabulorum in Homeri Iliade atque Odyssea Caeterisque Quotquot Extant Poematis 16
Lectures on the Exercise of the Sacred Ministry 16
Origin of the Distinction of Ranks 16
Plays of William Shakespeare 16
Dramatic Works of Samuel Foote 15
Poems [John Logan] 15
Works of Alexander Pope 15
Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers 13
Essays on the History of Mankind in Rude and Cultivated Ages 13
Nouveau Théâtre Allemand 13
Philological Inquiries [James Harris] 13
Collection of the Most Esteemed Farces and Entertainments Performed on the British Stage 12
History of the Establishment of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland 12
London Magazine: or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer 12
New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature 12
Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau 12
Account of the Russian Discoveries between Asia and America 11
Clinical Experiments, Histories, and Dissections 11
Dean of Coleraine: A Moral History 11
History of Greece, from the Accession of Alexander of Macedon, till its Final Subjection to the Roman Power 11
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 11
Lettres Physiques et Morales sur l'Histoire de la Terre et de l'Homme 11
Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick 11
Theory of Moral Sentiments 11
Antiquities and Scenery of the North of Scotland, in a Series of Letters, to Thomas Pennant 10
Attempt to Ascertain and Illustrate the Authority, Nature, and Design of the Institution of Christ commonly called the Communion and the Lord's Supper 10
Historie of the Heretics of the Two First Centuries after Christ 10
Sermons [George Carr] 10
Acta Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae 9
Bibliothèque des Sciences et des Beaux-Arts 9
Letters on Iceland 9
Observations on the Scottish Dialect 9
Reports of Cases Determined in the Several Courts of Westminster-Hall, from 1746 to 1779 9
Trials for Adultery: or, The History of Divorces 9
Voyages dans les Alpes Précédés d'un Essai sur l'Histoire Naturelle des Environs de Genève 9
Archaeologia, or Miscellaneous Tracts, Relating to Antiquity 8
Complete Digest of the Theory Laws and Practice of Insurance 8
Essay on Universal History 8
Farther Thoughts on the Nature of the Grand Apostacy of the Christian Churches 8

Book language

English 6328
French 450
Latin 95
Italian 53
Greek 26
Spanish 9
German 5
Icelandic 4
Saami 1

Book place of publication

London 5437
Edinburgh 992
Paris 350
Aberdeen 48
Amsterdam 33
Bath 33
Oxford 32
The Hague 30
Neuchâtel 26
Glasgow 20
Leipzig 20
Geneva 19
Dumfries 17
Stirling 17
Berlin 13
Göttingen 11
Stockholm 10
Cambridge 9
St Petersburg 9
Florence 8
Madrid 8
Philadelphia 7
Warrington 5
i.e. Amsterdam? 5
Copenhagen 3
Maastricht 3
Naples 3
Strasbourg 3
Twickenham 3
Altona 2
Canterbury 2
Dessau 2
Dublin 2
Eton 2
Lille 2
Liège 2
Paisley 2
Valencia 2
Venice 2
Bern 1
Birmingham 1
Bouillon 1
Copenhagen? 1
Dresden 1
Halle 1
Jena 1
Leiden 1
Prague 1
Rome 1
Siena 1
Trondheim 1
Turin 1
Verona 1
Vienna 1
Yverdon 1

Book format

8vo 4846
4to 1068
12mo 734
folio 147
18mo 74
16mo 18
unknown 2
24mo 1
score 1

Genre

History 2085
Periodicals 1519
Natural Philosophy 813
Sermons 474
Fiction 418
Travel 374
Theology 340
Belles Lettres 324
Poetry 228
Lives 219
Medicine 160
Drama 108
Law 107
Philosophy and Morality 106
Politics, Society and Political Economy 101
Education 100
Reference Works 47
Fine Arts 27
Mathematics 17
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 16

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