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Library

Glasgow University Library 1022
Edinburgh University Library 881
St Andrews University Library 799
Selkirk Library 550
Advocates Library 446
Leighton Library 337
Innerpeffray Library 334
Haddington Library 278
Dumfries Presbytery Library 129
Aberdeen Theological Library 117
Royal High School of Edinburgh 115
Wigtown Subscription Library 110
Craigston Castle Library 37
Hunterian Museum Library 14
Chambers' Circulating Library 2

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Mr 883
Reverend Mr 287
Dr 109
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Reverend 57
Sir 38
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Mrs 35
Professor 33
Principal 14
Miss 12
Major 7
Sous Lieutenant 6
Colonel 5
Lady 5
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Corporal 3
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Midshipman 1
Rev. 1
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Right Honourable 1

Borrower gender

Male 5069
Female 71
Unknown 23
Unclear 3

Borrower occupation

Education 2965
University Student 2225
University Professor 778
Religion and Clergy 642
Minister/Priest 614
Church of Scotland 556
Law 499
Advocate 435
Military 187
Prisoner of War 167
School Child 115
Sheriff 111
Arts and Letters 110
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 93
Medicine and Health 93
Author 88
Independent Means 82
Politics/Office Holders 82
Surgeon 81
Agricultural 72
Chaplain 67
Print and Book Trade 60
Printers 60
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 59
Dean of Faculty 56
Farmer 54
Tenant 53
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 52
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 44
Merchants/Traders 44
Presbyterian Seceder 43
Writer/Procurator 42
MP (Britain) 41
School Master/Dominie 28
Customs Collector 24
Gentleman 23
Domestic Service 21
Indoor Servants 21
Miscellaneous 21
Notaries/Clerks 20
Lord Advocate 18
Advocate Depute 17
Army 17
Judge 17
Clerk of Session 16
Librarian 14
Lord President 14
Physician 14
Widow 14
Clerks 12
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 12
Retailer/Shopkeeper 12
Lay Preacher 11
Dyer 10
Service Provision and Hospitality 10
Teacher 10
Provost 9
Tanner/Currier 9
Writer to the Signet (WS) 9
Baillie 8
Clerk 8
Baron of the Exchequer 7
Poet 7
Wife/Spouse 7
Curator 6
Grocer 6
Lord Provost/Provost 6
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 6
Banker 5
Barrister 5
Advocate’s Clerk 4
Episcopalian 4
Factor/Agent 4
Officer 4
Construction 3
Engineer 3
Land Manager/Factor 3
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 3
Accountant 2
Brewer 2
Innkeeper/Tavernkeeper 2
Mason/Miller 2
Solicitor-General 2
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 1
Glover 1
Navy 1
Painter/Limner 1
Publishers 1
Secretary of State 1
Smiths/Metal Workers 1

Author

Henry Fielding 187
Charles de Brosses 172
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon 170
Henry Brooke 145
Edinburgh Philosophical Society 116
Dr Samuel Johnson 105
John Hawkesworth 105
Joseph Warton 105
Pierre Joseph Macquer 105
Richard Bathurst 105
Royal Society (Great Britain) 103
Jean le Rond d' Alembert 101
Denis Diderot 95
William Smellie 86
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (France) 83
Jean-François Marmontel 83
Nathaniel Hooke 74
Jeremiah Seed 73
Archibald Bower 70
John Gregory 67
John Toland 66
Académie royale des sciences et belles lettres (Berlin, Germany) 61
John Campbell 61
Baron Albrecht von Haller 58
William Shakespeare 55
John Leland 54
Samuel Chandler 44
Simon Patrick Bishop of Ely 43
Catherine Macaulay 42
Sir William Blackstone 42
Pietro Metastasio 39
Anton de Haen 37
William Hillary 36
Temple Stanyan 33
Matthew Bacon 30
François Gayot de Pitaval 29
John Mair 29
Abbé Prévost 28
James Burrow 28
Laurence Sterne 28
George Campbell 27
Alexander Gerard 25
Jean-Henri-Samuel Formey 25
Louis-Jean Lévesque de Pouilly 25
Tobias George Smollett 25
Virgil 24
Robert Whytt 23
Benjamin Hoadly 22
Johann Jakob Brucker 22
Joseph Addison 21
James Oswald 20
Robert Dodsley 20
Samuel Auguste David Tissot 20
Thomas Haweis 20
Aulus Cornelius Celsus 19
Fredric Hasselquist 19
Jean-Baptiste Massillon 16
William Lowth 16
Alexander Nicol 14
Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle 14
Abbe Jean Antoine Nollet 13
Alexander Cumming 13
Samuel Clarke 13
William Harvey 13
Court of Chancery Great Britain 12
Henry Stebbing 12
John Jortin 12
Walter Harris 12
John Burn 11
Thomas Newton Bishop of Bristol 11
William Cockin 11
William Harris 10
Sir Charles Morell 9
William Shenstone 9
Antonio Francesco Gori 8
Henri François d' Aguesseau 8
Jacques-Bénigne Winslow 8
Commissioners of Longitude Great Britain 7
Flavius Josephus 7
L. (Louis) Dutens 7
Theocritus 7
Académie Royale des sciences (Paris) Académie des sciences (Paris) 6
Court of Session Scotland 6
Jacques-François-Paul-Aldonce de Sade 6
James Fordyce 6
James Stuart 6
Linnaeus 6
Nicolas Revett 6
Paul François Velly 6
Alexandre Savérien 5
John Cunningham 5
Nicholas Rowe 5
Pierre d' Hancarville 5
Terence 5
Ulrik Huber 5
Alexander Blackrie 4
Bernhard Siegfried Albinus 4
Daniel Defoe 4
George Adams 4
Gerard van Swieten 4

Book Work

Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 497
Modern Part of an Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time 358
Monthly Review. A Periodical Work, Giving an Account ... of, and Extracts from, the New Books, Pamphlets, &c. 199
Scots Magazine 185
Works of Henry Fielding 173
Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes 172
Natural History, General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon 170
Fool of Quality, or, The History of Henry Earl of Moreland 145
Biographia Britannica: or, the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons who have Flourished in Great Britain and Ireland 126
Essays and Observations, Physical and Literary 116
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 115
Adventurer ... . On Vent'rous Wing in Quest of Praise I Go, And Leave the Gazing Multitude Below 105
Dictionnaire de Chymie, Contenant la Théorie & la Pratique de Cette Science 105
Philosophical Transactions: Giving some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World 103
Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers 95
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery 86
Moral Tales 83
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres 76
Roman History, from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth 74
Discourses on Several Important Subjects [Jeremiah Seed] 73
History of the Popes, from the Foundation of the See of Rome, to the Present Time 70
Comparative View of the State and Faculties of Man with those of the Animal World 67
Van Swieten's Commentaries Abridged 66
Histoire de l'Acádemie Royale des Sciences et des Belles Lettres de Berlin 61
Lives of the Admirals and Other Eminent British Seamen 61
Works of William Shakespeare 55
Elementa Physiologiae Corporis Humani [Albrecht von Haller] 54
View of the Principal Deistical Writers 54
Commentaries on the Laws of England 42
Commentary upon the Historical Books of the Old Testament Part 1 42
History of England [Catherine Macaulay] 42
Poesie del Signor Abate Pietro Metastasio 39
Sermons on the Following Subjects [Samuel Chandler] 39
Ratio Medendi in Nosocomio Practico Vindobonensi 37
Observations on the Changes of the Air and the Concomitant Epidemical Diseases, in the Island of Barbadoes 36
Grecian History [Temple Stanyan] 33
History of Miss Indiana Danby 32
Medical Observations and Inquiries 30
New Abridgment of the Law 30
Arithmetic, Rational and Practical 29
Causes Célèbres et Intéressantes avec les Jugemens qui les ont Decidées 29
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
Histoire Générale des Voyages 28
Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, since the Death of Lord Raymond 28
Sermons of Mr Yorick 28
Dissertation on Miracles: Containing an Examination of the Principles Advanced by David Hume 27
Dissertations on Subjects relating to the Genius and the Evidences of Christianity 25
Ecclesiastical History [Formey] 25
Theory of Agreeable Sensations 25
Works of Virgil 24
Physiological Essays [Robert Whytt] 23
Historia Critica Philosophiae, a Mundi Incunabulis ad Nostram usque Aetatem Deducta 22
Sermons [Laurence Sterne] 22
Several Discourses concerning the Terms of Acceptance with God 22
Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose 21
Appeal to Common Sense in Behalf of Religion 20
Collection of Poems in Six Volumes by Several Hands [ed. Robert Dodsley] 20
Evangelical Expositor: or, A Commentary on the Holy Bible 20
De Medicina Libri Octo 19
Voyages and Travels in the Levant in the Years 1749, 50, 51, 52 19
Travels through France and Italy 18
Books of Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Solomon, Paraphrased 17
Commentary upon the Three Lesser Prophets 16
Sermons of Jean-Baptiste Massillon 16
Onanism: or, a Treatise upon the Disorders Produced by Masturbation 15
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 14
Poems on Several Subjects, both Comical and Serious […] To which are added, The Experienced Gentleman, and The She Anchoret 14
Discourse concerning the Being and Attributes of God 13
Elements of Clock and Watch-Work, Adapted to Practice 13
Leçons de Physique Expérimentale. 13
Nova Acta Eruditorum 13
Works of William Harvey 13
Cases Argued and Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery 12
Collection of Tracts in the Defence and Explanation of Christianity and its Evidence 12
History and Antiquities of the City of Dublin 12
London Magazine: or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer 12
Remarks on Ecclesiastical History 12
Dissertations on the Prophecies, Which have Remarkably Been Fulfilled, and at this Time are Fulfilling in the World 11
Practical Grammar of the English Language 11
Rational and Practical Treatise of Arithmetic 11
Historical and Critical Account of the Life of Charles the Second 10
Bibliothèque des Sciences et des Beaux-Arts 9
Tales of the Genii 9
Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone 9
Anatomical Exposition of the Structure of the Human Body 8
Museum Florentinum, Exhibens Insigniora Vetustatis Monumenta quae Florentiae sunt 8
Works of Henri François d' Aguesseau 8
Commentarii de Rebus in Scientia Naturali et Medicina Gestis 7
Continuation of the Complete History of England [Tobias Smollett] 7
Inquiry into the Origin of the Discoveries Attributed to the Moderns 7
Museum Rusticum et Commerciale: or, Select Papers on Agriculture, Commerce, Arts, and Manufactures 7
Mémoires de Littérature Tirés des Registres de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. 7
Theocriti Reliquiae 7
Works of Flavius Josephus 7
Antiquities of Athens Measured and Delineated 6
Catalogue of the Faculty of Advocates Library 6
Decisions of the Court of Session 6
Histoire de France depuis l'établissement de la Monarchie jusqu'au Regne de Louis XIV 6
Life of Petrarch 6

Book language

English 4082
French 823
Latin 227
Italian 47
Greek 9
German 3
Arabic 2

Book place of publication

London 3203
Edinburgh 663
Paris 629
Neuchâtel 95
Dublin 71
Glasgow 71
Berlin 61
Lausanne 58
The Hague 48
Leipzig 46
Vienna 46
Oxford 42
Birmingham 24
Amsterdam 13
Leiden 13
Florence 9
Naples 8
Dundee 7
Stockholm 6
Louvain 5
St Petersburg 4
Bristol 3
Norwich 3
Nuremberg 3
Twickenham 3
Göttingen 2
Halle 2
Helmstadt 2
Lille 2
Pesaro 2
Rouen 2
Venice 2
Verona 2
Yverdon 2
Jena 1
La Rochelle 1
Madrid 1
Newcastle 1
Reading 1
Rome 1
Siena 1

Book format

8vo 2846
4to 1000
12mo 860
folio 431

Genre

Periodicals 1381
History 841
Medicine 535
Fiction 462
Natural Philosophy 453
Belles Lettres 341
Lives 291
Theology 257
Travel 245
Philosophy and Morality 225
Law 212
Poetry 205
Sermons 182
Reference Works 120
Drama 65
Education 48
Mathematics 44
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 40
Politics, Society and Political Economy 39
Fine Arts 22

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