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Library

Royal High School of Edinburgh 1205
Selkirk Library 633
Glasgow University Library 560
Westerkirk 442
Advocates Library 412
Leighton Library 369
Edinburgh University Library 309
Innerpeffray Library 282
St Andrews University Library 214
Aberdeen Theological Library 88
Orkney Library 59
Craigston Castle Library 23
Wigtown Subscription Library 19
Hunterian Museum Library 12
Dumfries Presbytery Library 11
Chambers' Circulating Library 1
Inverness Kirk Sessions Library 1

Borrower title

Mr 900
Reverend Mr 312
Captain 72
Dr 66
Lieutenant 47
Sir 38
Reverend 30
Mrs 24
Professor 20
Miss 15
Midshipman 10
Major 5
Reverend Dr 5
Corporal 4
Principal 4
Sous Lieutenant 4
Lady 3
Prof. 2
Rev. 2
Colonel 1
Sous-Lieutenant 1

Borrower gender

Male 4580
Female 51
Unclear 3

Borrower occupation

Education 2385
School Child 1190
University Student 806
Law 465
University Professor 448
Advocate 384
Religion and Clergy 339
Minister/Priest 330
Church of Scotland 289
Military 211
Prisoner of War 175
Agricultural 107
Independent Means 102
Arts and Letters 97
Sheriff 93
Tenant 82
Farmer 79
Author 74
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 68
Writer/Procurator 55
Medicine and Health 54
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 52
Surgeon 52
Dean of Faculty 51
Gentleman 50
Politics/Office Holders 45
Presbyterian Seceder 37
Chaplain 36
Navy 34
MP (Britain) 32
Notaries/Clerks 28
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 27
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 23
Merchants/Traders 22
Advocate Depute 18
School Master/Dominie 17
Print and Book Trade 16
Printers 16
Clerk of Session 15
Judge 15
Librarian 14
Construction 11
Lord Advocate 10
Army 9
Architect 8
Baillie 8
Clerks 8
Lay Preacher 8
Lord President 8
Dyer 7
Poet 7
Writer to the Signet (WS) 7
Baron of the Exchequer 6
Teacher 6
Banker 5
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 5
Solicitor-General 5
Curator 4
Customs Collector 4
Mason/Miller 4
Miscellaneous 4
Officer 4
Tanner/Currier 4
Engineer 3
Factor/Agent 3
Mariner 3
Ships Captain 3
Wife/Spouse 3
Advocate’s Clerk 2
Booksellers 2
Land Manager/Factor 2
Lord Justice Clerk 2
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 2
Physician 2
Publishers 2
Watchmaker 2
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 1
Barrister 1
Episcopalian 1
Lord Provost/Provost 1
Secretary of State 1
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 1
Unknown denomination 1
Widow 1

Author

Charles Rollin 851
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon 287
Robert Henry 243
Hugh Blair 240
William Robertson 188
Edward Gibbon 117
Reverend David Lamont 92
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (France) 82
Ambrose Serle 73
Dr John Moore 71
James Burnet Lord Monboddo 58
Eyles Irwin 51
Catherine Macaulay 42
Pietro Metastasio 39
Reverend Augustus Toplady 38
John Smith 30
Samuel Jackson Pratt 30
James Burrow 28
John Hawkesworth 24
Dr Samuel Johnson 22
William Shakespeare 20
Royal College of Physicians of London 19
Thomas Warton 19
William Lothian 18
Wolfgang Seber 16
Alexander Pope 15
Jean le Rond d' Alembert 14
Abbé Prévost 13
Denis Diderot 13
Gilbert Stuart 12
Académie royale des sciences et belles lettres (Berlin, Germany) 11
Francis Home 11
Henry Fielding 11
Jean André de Luc 11
Thomas Davies 11
William Coxe 11
Charles Cordiner 10
Nathaniel Lardner 10
Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences 9
Alexander Gerard 9
Henri François d' Aguesseau 9
Horace Bénédict de Saussure 9
Uno von Troil 9
Antoine Court de Gébelin 8
Laurence Sterne 8
Sir Isaac Newton 8
Society of Antiquaries of London 8
James Dunbar 7
John Mainwaring 7
Girolamo Tiraboschi 6
James Stuart 6
John Nichols 6
Joseph Priestley 6
Nicolas Revett 6
Paul François Velly 6
Pliny the Younger 6
Samuel Foart Simmons 6
Vasco de Lobeira 6
William Combe 6
Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon 5
John Howard 5
Linnaeus 5
Louis Petit de Bachaumont 5
Richard Hurd 5
Societas Regia Scientiarum Gottingensis 5
Torbern Bergman 5
Xenophon of Athens 5
Académie Royale des sciences (Paris) Académie des sciences (Paris) 4
Charles Bonnet 4
Charles Burney 4
Francis Blackburne 4
Jean André De Luc 4
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais 4
William Emerson 4
William Hayley 4
Antonio Ponz 3
Benjamin Kennicott 3
Ebenezer Macfait 3
Edward Capell 3
Horace Walpole 3
James Anderson 3
Jean-Benjamin de Laborde 3
John Keys 3
Miss Charlotte Palmer 3
Owen Ruffhead 3
Thomas Lyttelton 3
William Bell 3
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac 3
Antoine-Joseph Dézallier d'Argenville 2
Apollonius Rhodius 2
Baron Albrecht von Haller 2
Carsten Niebuhr 2
Daniel Albert Wyttenbach 2
Edward Tatham 2
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock 2
George Chalmers 2
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 2
Hesiod 2
Homer 2
Johann Christian Biel 2

Book Work

Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians 851
Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 497
Natural History, General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon 281
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
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 117
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 115
Sermons on the Most Prevalent Vices [David Lamont] 92
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres 75
Horae Solitariae 73
View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany 71
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
Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time to the Present 48
Masquerades; or, What You Will 46
History of England [Catherine Macaulay] 42
Medical Commentaries [Andrew Duncan] 41
Poesie del Signor Abate Pietro Metastasio 39
Posthumous Works [Augustus Toplady] 38
Mirror [Edinburgh] 32
Emma Corbett; or, The Miseries of Civil War 30
Galic Antiquities: Consisting of a History of the Druids 30
Medical Observations and Inquiries 30
Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, since the Death of Lord Raymond 28
Scotch Preacher: or, A Collection of Sermons, by Some of the Most Eminent Clergymen of the Church of Scotland 26
Almoran and Hamet, An Oriental Tale 24
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
Supplement to the Edition of Shakspeare's Plays published in 1778 by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens 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
Lives of the English Poets 18
Index Vocabulorum in Homeri Iliade atque Odyssea Caeterisque Quotquot Extant Poematis 16
Plays of William Shakespeare 16
Works of Alexander Pope 15
Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers 13
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
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 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
Antiquities and Scenery of the North of Scotland, in a Series of Letters, to Thomas Pennant 10
Historie of the Heretics of the Two First Centuries after Christ 10
Acta Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae 9
Bibliothèque des Sciences et des Beaux-Arts 9
Letters on Iceland 9
Sermons [Alexander Gerard] 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
Monde Primitif, Analysé et Comparé avec le Monde Moderne 8
Sentimental Journey through France and Italy 8
Works of Henri François d' Aguesseau 8
Works of Isaac Newton 8
Commentarii de Rebus in Scientia Naturali et Medicina Gestis 7
Essays on the History of Mankind in Rude and Cultivated Ages 7
Histoire de l'Acádemie Royale des Sciences et des Belles Lettres de Berlin 7
Mémoires de Littérature Tirés des Registres de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. 7
Sermons on Several Occasions [John Mainwaring] 7
Amadis of Gaul 6
Anatomy of the Human Body [Samuel Foart Simmons] 6
Antiquities of Athens Measured and Delineated 6
Catalogue of the Faculty of Advocates Library 6
Histoire de France depuis l'établissement de la Monarchie jusqu'au Regne de Louis XIV 6
Natural History [Pliny] 6
Natural History of Birds 6
Royal Register 6
Storia della Letteratura Italiana 6
Amoenitates Academicae 5
Commentationes Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Gottingensis 5
Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air 5
Experiments and Observations relating to Various Branches of Natural Philosophy; with a Continuation of the Observations on Air 5
Memorable Things of Socrates 5
Mémoires Secrets pour Servir a l'Histoire de la République des Lettres en France 5
Observations sur la Physique, sur l'Histoire Naturelle et sur les Arts 5
Physical and Chemical Essays [Torbern Bergman] 5
Sermons Preached at Lincoln's-Inn, Between the Years 1765 and 1777 5
State Papers Collected by Edward, Earl of Clarendon. 5
State of the Prisons in England and Wales 5
Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica 4
Essay on History 4
General History of Music [Charles Burney] 4
Gentleman's Magazine 4
Memoirs of Thomas Hollis 4
Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal 4
Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres 4
OEuvres Complètes [Beaumarchais] 4
OEuvres d'Histoire Naturelle et de Philosophie de Charles Bonnet 4
Parliamentary Register; or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons 4
Treatise of Algebra [William Emerson] 4
Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson 4
Anecdotes of Painting in England 3

Book language

English 4148
French 350
Latin 73
Italian 50
Greek 22
Spanish 7
German 4
Icelandic 2
Saami 1

Book place of publication

London 3427
Edinburgh 809
Paris 307
Bath 31
Oxford 30
Neuchâtel 26
The Hague 25
Berlin 13
Amsterdam 12
Göttingen 10
Stockholm 10
Leipzig 9
St Petersburg 9
Cambridge 8
Florence 6
Madrid 6
Warrington 5
i.e. Amsterdam? 5
Geneva 3
Naples 3
Twickenham 3
Altona 2
Eton 2
Philadelphia 2
Bern 1
Canterbury 1
Copenhagen 1
Copenhagen? 1
Dresden 1
Dublin 1
Jena 1
Leiden 1
Prague 1
Rome 1
Siena 1
Strasbourg 1
Trondheim 1
Valencia 1
Vienna 1
Yverdon 1

Book format

8vo 3316
4to 897
12mo 213
folio 115
18mo 69
16mo 18
unknown 2

Genre

History 1719
Periodicals 1293
Sermons 381
Natural Philosophy 359
Belles Lettres 219
Travel 175
Theology 167
Poetry 144
Medicine 126
Lives 111
Fiction 100
Law 56
Reference Works 33
Drama 27
Politics, Society and Political Economy 23
Philosophy and Morality 21
Fine Arts 17
Mathematics 16
Education 10
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 9

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