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Library

Selkirk Library 790
Glasgow University Library 545
Westerkirk 497
Leighton Library 463
Advocates Library 460
St Andrews University Library 304
Innerpeffray Library 264
Edinburgh University Library 256
Royal High School of Edinburgh 214
Haddington Library 183
Wigtown Subscription Library 89
Aberdeen Theological Library 82
Craigston Castle Library 40
Hunterian Museum Library 16
Dumfries Presbytery Library 15
Orkney Library 10
Chambers' Circulating Library 5

Borrower title

Mr 1072
Reverend Mr 353
Dr 77
Captain 61
Sir 54
Lieutenant 49
Mrs 41
Reverend 34
Miss 20
Professor 17
Midshipman 12
Reverend Dr 8
Corporal 7
Lady 5
Principal 5
Major 3
Sous Lieutenant 3
Colonel 2
Misses 2
Rev. 2
Prof. 1
Right Honourable 1
Sous-Lieutenant 1

Borrower gender

Male 4138
Female 86
Unknown 4
Unclear 3

Borrower occupation

Education 1460
University Student 878
Law 521
Advocate 431
University Professor 431
Religion and Clergy 409
Minister/Priest 387
Church of Scotland 341
Military 248
Prisoner of War 232
School Child 203
Agricultural 144
Sheriff 119
Independent Means 117
Arts and Letters 113
Tenant 113
Author 100
Farmer 100
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 81
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 69
Medicine and Health 69
Politics/Office Holders 69
Surgeon 64
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 59
Writer/Procurator 58
Dean of Faculty 50
MP (Britain) 49
Merchants/Traders 41
Presbyterian Seceder 40
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 39
Gentleman 36
Chaplain 35
Notaries/Clerks 29
School Master/Dominie 24
Judge 23
Advocate Depute 21
Construction 18
Clerk of Session 17
Miscellaneous 17
Teacher 17
Navy 15
Print and Book Trade 15
Printers 15
Banker 14
Lord Advocate 13
Lay Preacher 12
Baron of the Exchequer 11
Service Provision and Hospitality 11
Dyer 10
Engineer 10
Widow 10
Clerks 9
Lord President 9
Architect 8
Baillie 8
Librarian 7
Lord Provost/Provost 7
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 7
Officer 7
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 7
Wife/Spouse 7
Writer to the Signet (WS) 7
Army 6
Barrister 6
Customs Collector 6
Grocer 6
Curator 5
Factor/Agent 5
Land Manager/Factor 5
Physician 5
Provost 5
Tanner/Currier 5
Accountant 4
Episcopalian 4
Mariner 4
Mason/Miller 4
Retailer/Shopkeeper 4
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 3
Brewer 3
Poet 3
Solicitor-General 3
Advocate’s Clerk 2
Innkeeper/Tavernkeeper 2
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 2
Privateer 2
Publishers 2
Ships Captain 2
Watchmaker 2
Active Service/Soldiers 1
Booksellers 1
Clerk 1
Gardener 1
Secretary of State 1
Tutor 1

Author

Hugh Blair 251
Robert Henry 243
William Robertson 216
Edward Gibbon 205
Ralph Erskine 153
Robert Watson 97
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (France) 82
Henry Mackenzie 81
Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall 81
Jean-François Marmontel 78
Joseph Addison 78
Sir Richard Steele 78
Ambrose Serle 73
Abbé Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal 70
Georg Forster 61
John Campbell 61
James Burnet Lord Monboddo 58
Catherine Macaulay 42
Pietro Metastasio 39
Anton de Haen 37
Pope Clement XIV 37
Andrew Gray 33
William Nimmo 32
James Burrow 28
Henry Brooke 26
Robert Walker 26
Geoffrey Chaucer 24
Homer 24
David Hume 22
James Beattie 20
Royal College of Physicians of London 19
Thomas Warton 19
Hannah More 17
Voltaire 17
Francis Carter 16
James Cook 14
Jean le Rond d' Alembert 14
Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield 14
Antoine Guénée 13
Denis Diderot 13
Henry Bourne 12
Henry St John Viscount Bolingbroke 12
John Brand 12
Matthew Maty 12
Académie royale des sciences et belles lettres (Berlin, Germany) 11
Henry Home Lord Kames 11
Bernhard Siegfried Albinus 10
James Anderson 10
John Dryden 10
Aeschines 9
Lope de Vega 9
Samuel Jackson Pratt 9
Thomas Campbell 9
Antoine Court de Gébelin 8
François Danican Philidor 8
Henri François d' Aguesseau 8
Joseph Priestley 8
Society of Antiquaries of London 8
Zachary Pearce 7
Académie Royale des sciences (Paris) Académie des sciences (Paris) 6
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon 6
Eduard Sandifort 6
Girolamo Tiraboschi 6
James Stuart 6
Jemina Kindersley 6
Nicolas Revett 6
Paul François Velly 6
Pierre Joseph Macquer 6
Pliny the Younger 6
Thomas Newton Bishop of Bristol 6
Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon 5
Helvetius 5
John Lightfoot 5
Linnaeus 5
Louis Petit de Bachaumont 5
Marcus Tullius Cicero 5
Richard Hurd 5
Charles Burney 4
Demosthenes 4
Flavius Josephus 4
Freiherr von Nicolaus Joseph Jacquin 4
John Williams 4
Thomas Gibbons 4
William Whiston 4
Alexis Piron 3
Antonio Ponz 3
Cornelius Tacitus 3
Dionysius of Halicarnassus 3
Edward Thompson 3
Frances Brooke 3
Horace Walpole 3
John Berkenhout 3
John Gay 3
Joseph Pellerin 3
Lt-Col. William Dalrymple 3
Owen Ruffhead 3
Paul Whitehead 3
Philip Thicknesse 3
Richard Watson Bishop of Llandaff 3
William Enfield 3

Book Work

Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 497
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 251
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 243
History of America [William Robertson] 216
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 205
Monthly Review. A Periodical Work, Giving an Account ... of, and Extracts from, the New Books, Pamphlets, &c. 199
Scots Magazine 185
Sermons, and Other Practical Works [Ralph Erskine] 153
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 115
Bell's British Theatre 110
History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain 97
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
Memoirs of the Kings of France, of the Race of Valois 81
Julia de Roubigné 80
Spectator 78
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres 75
Horae Solitariae 73
Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies 70
Incas: or, The Destruction of the Empire of Peru 68
Lives of the Admirals and Other Eminent British Seamen 61
Voyage Round the World, in His Britannic Majesty's Sloop, Resolution 61
Of the Origin and Progress of Language 58
Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill 56
History of England [Catherine Macaulay] 42
Poesie del Signor Abate Pietro Metastasio 39
Interesting Letters of Pope Clement XIV 37
Ratio Medendi in Nosocomio Practico Vindobonensi 37
Delineation of the Parables of Our Blessed Saviour 33
General History of Stirlingshire 32
Medical Observations and Inquiries 30
Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, since the Death of Lord Raymond 28
Fool of Quality, or, The History of Henry Earl of Moreland 26
Scotch Preacher: or, A Collection of Sermons, by Some of the Most Eminent Clergymen of the Church of Scotland 26
Sermons on Practical Subjects [Robert Walker] 26
Canterbury Tales 24
Iliad 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
Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism 18
Essays on Various Subjects, Principally Designed for Young Ladies 17
Journey from Gibraltar to Malaga 16
Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects 14
Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World performed in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Adventure 14
Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers 13
Letters of Certain Jews to Monsieur de Voltaire 13
Works of Voltaire 13
Letters on the Study and Use of History 12
London Magazine: or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer 12
Miscellaneous Works of the late Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield 12
Observations on Popular Antiquities: including the Whole of Mr Bourne's Antiquitates Vulgares, with Addenda to Every Chapter of that Work 12
Complete Works [Jean-François Marmontel] 10
Original Poems [John Dryden] 10
Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body 10
Bibliothèque des Sciences et des Beaux-Arts 9
Coleccion de las Obras Sueltas, Assi en Prosa, Como en Verso 9
Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland 9
Analyse du Jeu des échecs 8
Archaeologia, or Miscellaneous Tracts, Relating to Antiquity 8
Code of Gentoo Laws 8
Life of David Hume 8
Monde Primitif, Analysé et Comparé avec le Monde Moderne 8
Works of Henri François d' Aguesseau 8
Commentarii de Rebus in Scientia Naturali et Medicina Gestis 7
Commentary on the Four Evangelists and the Acts of the Apostles with a New Translation of St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians 7
Elucidations Respecting the Common and Statute Law of Scotland 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
Observations on the Means of exciting a Spirit of National Industry 7
Antiquities of Athens Measured and Delineated 6
Catalogue of the Faculty of Advocates Library 6
Dictionary of Chemistry 6
Dissertations on the Prophecies, Which have Remarkably Been Fulfilled, and at this Time are Fulfilling in the World 6
Histoire de France depuis l'établissement de la Monarchie jusqu'au Regne de Louis XIV 6
Letters from the Island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies 6
Natural History [Pliny] 6
Natural History of Birds 6
Orations of Aeschines 6
Storia della Letteratura Italiana 6
Thesaurus Dissertationum, Programmatum, aliorumque Opusculorum Selectissimorum ad Omnem Medicinae Ambitum Pertinentium 6
Amoenitates Academicae 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
Flora Scotica: or, A Systematic Arrangement, in the Linnaean Method, of the Native Plants of Scotland and the Hebrides 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
Odyssey 5
Sermons Preached at Lincoln's-Inn, Between the Years 1765 and 1777 5
State Papers Collected by Edward, Earl of Clarendon. 5
Sublime and Beautiful of Scripture: being Essays on Select Passages of Sacred Composition 5
Supplément à l'Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers 5
Treatise on Man, his Intellectual Faculties and his Education 5
Decisions of the Court of Session, from its First Institution to the Present Time. Abridged, and Digested under Proper Heads, in Form of a Dictionary 4
Florae Austriacae, sive, Plantarum Selectarum in Austriae Archiducatu 4
General History of Music [Charles Burney] 4
Gentleman's Magazine 4
Genuine works of Flavius Josephus, the Jewish Historian 4
Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women 4
Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal 4
Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres 4
Parliamentary Register; or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons 4

Book language

English 3723
French 364
Latin 93
Italian 49
Spanish 12
Greek 7
German 2
Saami 1

Book place of publication

London 3061
Edinburgh 568
Paris 306
Glasgow 155
Dublin 46
Vienna 41
Neuchâtel 16
The Hague 16
Newcastle 15
Leipzig 14
Berlin 13
Geneva 13
Madrid 12
Newcastle upon Tyne 12
Liège 11
Oxford 9
Amsterdam 7
Florence 6
Rotterdam 6
Göttingen 5
Stockholm 5
i.e. Amsterdam? 5
Cambridge 3
Naples 3
Norwich 3
Twickenham 3
Copenhagen 2
Dijon 2
Eton 2
Halle 2
Philadelphia 2
Warrington 2
Dresden 1
Jena 1
Leiden 1
Prague 1
Siena 1
Trondheim 1
i.e. Paris? 1

Book format

8vo 2403
4to 1137
12mo 614
folio 103
18mo 56

Genre

Periodicals 1314
History 1263
Sermons 465
Belles Lettres 225
Travel 220
Fiction 198
Poetry 195
Lives 163
Theology 156
Medicine 124
Drama 118
Natural Philosophy 75
Philosophy and Morality 70
Law 65
Reference Works 52
Education 31
Politics, Society and Political Economy 27
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 21
Fine Arts 14
Mathematics 6

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