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Library

Orkney Library 4128
Wigtown Subscription Library 1294
Advocates Library 642
Royal High School of Edinburgh 547
Selkirk Library 441
Chambers' Circulating Library 418
Westerkirk 400
Leighton Library 370
Edinburgh University Library 59
Innerpeffray Library 51
St Andrews University Library 24
Craigston Castle Library 9
Glasgow University Library 5

Borrower title

Mr 2987
Reverend Mr 1350
Captain 473
Dr 446
Mrs 351
Miss 170
Reverend 142
Lieutenant 60
Major 48
Reverend Dr 34
Sir 34
Lady 24
Colonel 4
Brigadier General 3
Corporal 3
Honourable 2
Mrs General 2
Sous Lieutenant 2
Sous-Lieutenant 2
Midshipman 1
Professor 1

Borrower gender

Male 7818
Female 549
Unknown 13
Unclear 7

Borrower occupation

Law 1237
Religion and Clergy 1207
Minister/Priest 1205
Church of Scotland 988
Independent Means 982
Education 839
Advocate 633
Gentleman 620
School Child 545
Military 534
Writer/Procurator 495
Medicine and Health 449
Politics/Office Holders 387
Navy 385
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 363
Arts and Letters 259
Physician 224
Surgeon 218
Sheriff 206
Customs Collector 200
Unknown denomination 169
Author 153
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 150
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 128
Agricultural 117
University Student 117
School Master/Dominie 111
Merchants/Traders 99
Prisoner of War 86
Poet 74
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 69
Farmer 64
Librarian 64
Army 63
Lord Provost/Provost 63
Miscellaneous 62
Wife/Spouse 62
Tenant 61
Tax Collector 60
Advocate Depute 59
Booksellers 53
Print and Book Trade 53
Mariner 50
University Professor 50
Ships Owner 49
Bookbinder 46
Presbyterian Seceder 46
Land Manager/Factor 44
Service Provision and Hospitality 41
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 33
Notaries/Clerks 30
Surveyor 30
MP (Britain) 29
Barrister 28
Grocer 28
Dean of Faculty 24
Banker 23
Tanner/Currier 23
Writer to the Signet (WS) 21
Accountant 19
Clerk of Session 18
Factor/Agent 18
Construction 17
Watchmaker 17
Teacher 15
Solicitor-General 14
Architect 13
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 12
Distiller 11
Baillie 8
Clerks 8
Judge 8
Druggist/Chemist/Apothecary 7
Publishers 7
Lord Justice Clerk 6
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 5
Dyer 5
Lord Advocate 5
Officer 4
Messenger-at-arms 3
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 3
Baron of the Exchequer 2
Builder 2
Engineer 2
Lay Preacher 2
Lord President 2
Retailer/Shopkeeper 2
Tutor 2
Brewer 1
Chaplain 1
Magistrate 1
Ships Captain 1
Supporting Activities 1
Victualler 1

Author

Sir Walter Scott 778
David Brewster 397
George Gordon Byron Lord Byron 123
Captain Thomas Pococke 92
Alexander von Humboldt 73
Mary Brunton 64
William Scoresby 64
Robert Mudie 60
John Gibson Lockhart 57
Hugh Murray 50
Dugald Stewart 41
George Crabbe 40
Thomas McCrie 40
William Cobbett 39
George Chalmers 36
Edmund Burke 34
Thomas Brown The Elder 34
Captain Basil Hall 32
Henry Bradshaw Fearon 31
Morris Birkbeck 31
Washington Irving 31
Alexander Ranken 27
Edward Daniel Clarke 26
Baron Horatio Walpole 24
Hugh William Williams 23
Thomas Hope 23
William Henry Curran 23
Colonel Francis Hall 19
Robert Southey 19
Royal College of Physicians of London 19
William Kirby 19
William Spence 19
William Charles Wentworth 18
Amelia Alderson Opie 17
Alexander Sutherland 16
Samuel Rogers 16
Thomas Bewick 16
Thomas Campbell 15
Lucy Aikin 13
Charles Robert Maturin 11
Samuel William Ryley 11
Commoner 10
William Mitford 10
Barbara Hofland 9
Christoph Martin Wieland 9
John Evelyn 9
John Lingard 9
Sir John Ross 9
Claude Bernard Petitot 8
Edward Dodwell 8
James Mill 8
Joseph Spence 8
James Morton 7
John Leyden 7
Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan 7
Alexander Bower 6
David Baillie Warden 6
Felix M'Donogh 6
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 6
Sharon Turner 6
Comte Gaspard Théodore Mollien 5
John Aikin 5
John Russell Earl Russell 5
Michael Bruce 5
Pierre Louis Ginguené 5
Robert Leighton 5
William Coxe 5
Andrew Reed 4
Charles Mills 4
Comtesse Stéphanie Félicité Genlis 4
Henry Hart Milman 4
Henry Matthews 4
Henry Nugent Bell 4
John Oxley 4
Moritz von Kotzebue 4
Samuel Heinrich Spiker 4
Thomas Brown 4
Vasiliĭ Mikhaĭlovich Golovnin 4
William Archibald Cadell 4
Andrew Fyfe 3
Anna Eliza Bray 3
Aristophanes 3
Baron Pierre Alexandre Édouard Fleury de Chaboulon 3
Dante Alighieri 3
Francis Bacon 3
Freiherr Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué 3
George Croly 3
George Miller D. D. 3
Giovanni Battista Belzoni 3
Henry Kirke White 3
James Baillie Fraser 3
James Boswell 3
John Galt 3
Joseph François Michaud 3
Marcus Tullius Cicero 3
Nehemiah Nettlebottom 3
Robert Burns 3
Terrick Hamilton 3
Thomas Hartwell Horne 3
Thomas Hodgskin 3

Book Work

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 2044
Edinburgh Review, or, Critical Journal 886
Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 682
Quarterly Review 599
Edinburgh Christian Instructor 583
Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 497
Ivanhoe; a Romance 195
Abbot 157
Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley 136
Tales of my Landlord [Third Series] 127
New Annual Register 126
Works of Lord Byron 120
Monastery. A Romance 119
Eclectic Review 98
Journal of a Soldier of the Seventy-First, or Glasgow Regiment Highland Light Infantry, from 1806 to 1815 92
Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal 73
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent during the Years 1799-1804 73
Account of the Arctic Regions, with a History and description of the Northern Whale-Fishery 64
Emmeline. With Some Other Pieces 64
Glenfergus 60
Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk 57
Edinburgh Annual Register 56
Literary and Statistical Magazine for Scotland 55
Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels and Asia 50
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind 41
Life of Andrew Melville 40
Tales of the Hall 40
Caledonia: or, An Account, Historical and Topographic, of North Britain 36
Edinburgh: A Satirical Novel 34
Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke 34
Monthly Magazine and British Register 33
Voyage to Loo-Choo, and Other Places in the Eastern Seas in the Year 1816 32
History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty 31
Sketches of America. A Narrative of a Journey of five Thousand Miles through the Eastern and Western States of America 31
Year's Residence in the United States of America 30
Tales of my Landlord [First Series] 28
History of France [Alexander Ranken] 27
Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa 26
Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford 24
Anastasius, or, Memoirs of a Greek Written at the Close of the Eighteenth Century 23
Life of the Right Honourable John Philpot Curran 23
Travels in Italy, Greece, and the Ionian Islands in a Series of Letters Descriptive of Manners, Scenery, and the Fine Arts 23
Introduction to Entomology, or, Elements of the Natural History of Insects 19
Medical Transactions, Published by the College of Physicians in London 19
Travels in France, in 1818 19
Statistical, Historical, and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales 18
Tales of the Heart 17
Human Life 16
Natural History of Quadrapeds 16
Specimens of the British Poets; with Biographical and Critical notices, and an Essay on English Poetry 15
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth 13
Ballads and Lyrical Pieces 12
New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature 12
Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland 11
Itinerant, or Memoirs of an Actor 11
Spirit of the Public Journals 11
British Critic 10
History of Greece [William Mitford] 10
Melmoth, the Wanderer 10
St Kathleen, or, the Rock of Dunnismoyle 10
The Extraordinary Red Book 10
Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings 9
History of England [John Lingard] 9
Memoirs Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn 9
Sämmtliche Werke 9
Tales of the Priory 9
Voyage of Discovery ... in His Majesty's ships Isabella and Alexander, for the Purpose of Exploring Baffin's Bay 9
Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece 8
Collection Complète des Mémoires Relatifs à l'Histoire de France, Depuis le Règne de Philippe Auguste 8
History of Brazil 8
History of British India 8
Life of Wesley; and the Rise and Progress of Methodism 8
Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters of Books and Men 8
Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale 7
Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester 7
Pamphleteer 7
Poetical Remains of the Late Dr John Leyden: with Memoirs of his Life by James Morton 7
History of England [Sharon Turner] 6
History of the University of Edinburgh 6
Redmond the Rebel, or, They Met at Waterloo 6
Statistical, Political, and Historical Account of the United States of North America 6
Annual Biography and Obituary 5
Histoire Littéraire d'Italie 5
Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough 5
Poems on Several Occasions [Michael Bruce] 5
Travels in the Interior of Africa, to the Sources of the Senegal and Gambia performed by Command of the French Government in ... 1818 5
Works of Robert Leighton 5
Annals of Philosophy, or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics, Natural History, Agriculture, and the Arts 4
Annals of the Reign of King George the Third; from its Commencement in 1760 to the General Peace in the Year 1815 4
Asiatick Researches; or, Transactions of the Society, instituted in Bengal 4
Diary of an Invalid; being the Journal of a Tour ... in Portugal, Italy, Switzerland and France in the Years 1817-1819 4
Edinburgh Philosophical Journal 4
Fall of Jerusalem A Dramatic Poem 4
Gentleman's Magazine 4
History of the Crusades for the Recovery and Possession of the Holy Land 4
Huntingdon Peerage 4
Journals of Two Expeditions into theIinterior of New South Wales, Undertaken by order of the British Government, in the Years 1817-18 4
Journey in Carniola, Italy, and France, in the Years 1817, 1818, etc 4
Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind 4
Narrative of a Journey into Persia, in the Suite of the Imperial Russian Embassy, in the Year 1817 4

Book language

English 8299
French 42
German 27
Latin 15
Greek 3
Italian 2
Icelandic 1
Spanish 1

Book place of publication

Edinburgh 5653
London 3023
Paris 37
Stuttgart 14
Berlin 7
Dublin 6
Glasgow 6
Leipzig 5
Oxford 5
Calcutta 3
Tübingen 3
Cambridge 2
Göttingen 2
Utrecht 2
Amsterdam 1
Breslau 1
Copenhagen 1
Halle 1
Heidelberg 1
Inverness 1
Leiden 1
Madrid 1
Malacca 1
Siena 1
Verona 1

Book format

8vo 5778
12mo 748
folio 404
4to 262

Genre

Periodicals 5166
Fiction 1063
Theology 602
Travel 503
Reference Works 445
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 292
Lives 274
Poetry 230
History 228
Belles Lettres 108
Philosophy and Morality 97
Natural Philosophy 58
Politics, Society and Political Economy 50
Law 40
Medicine 33
Education 23
Drama 15
Sermons 9
Fine Arts 1
Mathematics 1

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