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Library

Orkney Library 3589
Wigtown Subscription Library 1444
Chambers' Circulating Library 691
Advocates Library 629
Selkirk Library 436
Westerkirk 400
Leighton Library 364
Royal High School of Edinburgh 137
Innerpeffray Library 51
Edinburgh University Library 40
St Andrews University Library 26
Craigston Castle Library 9
Glasgow University Library 5
Dumfries Presbytery Library 2

Borrower title

Mr 2759
Reverend Mr 1253
Mrs 447
Captain 431
Dr 426
Miss 198
Reverend 150
Lieutenant 59
Major 55
Sir 35
Lady 34
Reverend Dr 21
Colonel 6
Brigadier General 3
Corporal 3
Honourable 3
Mrs General 2
Sous Lieutenant 2
Sous-Lieutenant 2
Midshipman 1
Professor 1
Staff Sergeant 1

Borrower gender

Male 7117
Female 683
Unknown 17
Unclear 6

Borrower occupation

Law 1256
Religion and Clergy 1109
Minister/Priest 1107
Church of Scotland 906
Independent Means 853
Advocate 627
Gentleman 537
Writer/Procurator 522
Military 505
Medicine and Health 438
Education 386
Politics/Office Holders 371
Navy 344
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 317
Arts and Letters 258
Physician 220
Surgeon 212
Sheriff 207
Customs Collector 199
Author 164
Unknown denomination 153
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 148
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 141
School Child 136
Agricultural 119
Miscellaneous 119
Wife/Spouse 119
University Student 93
Merchants/Traders 88
School Master/Dominie 88
Prisoner of War 86
Poet 84
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 82
Army 73
Advocate Depute 70
Farmer 64
Lord Provost/Provost 62
Booksellers 61
Print and Book Trade 61
Tenant 60
Librarian 57
University Professor 56
Mariner 55
Ships Owner 55
Tax Collector 51
Bookbinder 47
Land Manager/Factor 47
Presbyterian Seceder 46
Service Provision and Hospitality 45
Barrister 40
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 36
MP (Britain) 30
Banker 28
Grocer 28
Notaries/Clerks 27
Tanner/Currier 27
Accountant 26
Writer to the Signet (WS) 26
Surveyor 24
Dean of Faculty 23
Clerk of Session 20
Construction 15
Solicitor-General 15
Factor/Agent 14
Publishers 14
Watchmaker 14
Architect 13
Distiller 12
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 12
Teacher 12
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 11
Baillie 8
Clerks 8
Lord Advocate 7
Druggist/Chemist/Apothecary 6
Judge 6
Officer 6
Dyer 5
Lord Justice Clerk 5
Baron of the Exchequer 3
Brewer 3
Messenger-at-arms 3
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 3
Engineer 2
Lay Preacher 2
Lord President 2
Tutor 2
Victualler 2
Chaplain 1
Insurance 1
Musician 1
Retailer/Shopkeeper 1
Supporting Activities 1

Author

Sir Walter Scott 412
David Brewster 398
John Galt 122
Alexander von Humboldt 73
John Wilson 'Christopher North' 60
John Gibson Lockhart 57
Washington Irving 55
Major General David Stewart 50
James Fenimore Cooper 43
Dugald Stewart 41
Alexander Peterkin 40
George Chalmers 38
Edmund Burke 34
Alexander Ranken 27
Edward Daniel Clarke 26
Baron Horatio Walpole 24
William Cobbett 23
Louis Simond 22
Sir William Edward Parry 19
William Kirby 19
William Spence 19
Alexander Sutherland 16
Eliza Logan 16
Barry Edward O'Meara 15
Alphonse de Beauchamp 14
James Dixon 14
Thomas Colley Grattan 14
Lucy Aikin 12
Thomas De Quincey 12
Henry Grattan 11
James Hogg 11
Samuel William Ryley 11
John Neal 10
Robert Southey 10
James Cleghorn 9
John Franklin 9
John Lingard 9
Patrick Miller McClatchie 9
Robert Richardson 9
Ronald M'Chronicle 9
Claude Bernard Petitot 8
Misses Corbett 8
Sir Robert Ker Porter 8
William Tennant 8
Alexander Murray 7
Barbara Hofland 7
Felix M'Donogh 7
James Hook 7
Alexander Bower 6
Charles Brockden Brown 6
Charles Molloy Westmacott 6
Sharon Turner 6
Thomas Murray 6
Benjamin Flower 5
Comte Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases 5
Edward Nares 5
Madame Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël 5
Morris Birkbeck 5
Patrick Fraser Tytler 5
Pierre Louis Ginguené 5
Robert Barclay 5
Alexander Fraser Tytler Lord Woodhouselee 4
Comte Jean Rapp 4
Edward Blaquière 4
George Proctor 4
James Wilson 4
John Gamble 4
John Malcolm 4
Miss Anne Walker of Dalry 4
Mme Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Campan 4
Amelia Alderson Opie 3
Andrew Reed 3
Aristophanes 3
Barnard Hanbury 3
Baron de Kolli 3
Charlotte Campbell Lady Bury 3
Edward Neville 3
Edward Pelham Brenton 3
Freiherr Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué 3
George Miller D. D. 3
George Waddington 3
Henry Kirke White 3
James Kirke Paulding 3
Johann Karl August, Musäus 3
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 3
John Claudius Loudon 3
John Lemprière 3
John MacDiarmid 3
Joseph François Michaud 3
Ludwig Tieck 3
Miss E. H. M'Leod 3
Napoleon 3
Queen Maria Luigia Consort of Louis I, King of Etruria 3
Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall 3
Thomas Moore 3
William Henry Pyne 3
Alicia Lefanu 2
Allan Cunningham 2
Anthony Todd Thomson 2
Aristotle 2

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
New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal 174
Pirate 143
New Annual Register 126
Fortunes of Nigel 104
Eclectic Review 98
Quentin Durward 84
Peveril of the Peak 81
Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal 73
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent during the Years 1799-1804 73
Edinburgh Annual Register 56
Reginald Dalton 53
Sir Andrew Wylie, of that Ilk 50
Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland 50
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind 41
Notes on Orkney and Zetland 40
Trials of Margaret Lindsay 39
Bracebridge Hall; or, the Humorists 38
Caledonia: or, An Account, Historical and Topographic, of North Britain 36
Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke 34
Monthly Magazine and British Register 33
Entail; or The Lairds of Grippy 31
Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground 31
History of France [Alexander Ranken] 27
Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa 26
Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford 24
Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life, A Selection from the Papers of the Late Arthur Austin 21
Annals of the Parish; or, The Chronicles of Dalmailing 19
Introduction to Entomology, or, Elements of the Natural History of Insects 19
Journal of the First, Second and Third Voyages for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific in 1819-25 19
Literary Character 17
Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 17
St Johnstoun; or, John, Earl of Gowrie 16
Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction 15
Napoleon in Exile 15
High-Ways and By-Ways, or, Tales of the Roadside [First Series] 14
Life of Ali Pacha of Jannina 14
Narrative of a Voyage to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, in the Ship Skelton, during the Year 1820 14
Switzerland 14
Provost 13
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 12
Memoirs of the Court of King James the First 12
New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature 12
Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna 12
Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland 11
Itinerant, or Memoirs of an Actor 11
Spirit of the Public Journals 11
British Critic 10
Macrimmon: A Highland Tale 10
Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings 9
Douglas, or the Field of Otterburn: A Historical Romance 9
History of England [John Lingard] 9
Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea 9
On the Depressed State of Agriculture 9
Speeches of the Rt Hon. Henry Grattan in the Irish and in the Imperial Parliament 9
Travels along the Mediterranean and Parts Adjacent 9
Collection Complète des Mémoires Relatifs à l'Histoire de France, Depuis le Règne de Philippe Auguste 8
Cottage Economy 8
Petticoat Tales 8
The Thane of Fife 8
Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, Ancient Babylonia ... During the Years 1817, 1818, 1819 and 1820 8
Travels in Switzerland, in 1817, 1818, and 1819 8
Trial of James Stuart 8
History of the European Languages; or, Researches into the Affinities of the Teutonic, Greek, Celtic, Sclavonic, and Indian Nations 7
Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester 7
Pamphleteer 7
Pen Owen 7
Tales of the Manor 7
Three Perils of Woman, or Love, Leasing and Jealousy 7
Cospatrick of Raymondsholm. A Westland Tale 6
History of England [Sharon Turner] 6
History of the Peninsular War 6
History of the University of Edinburgh 6
Legends of Scotland [First Series] 6
Legends of Scotland [Second Series] 6
Literary History of Galloway 6
Logan, A Family History 6
Points of Misery: or Fables for Mankind 6
Annual Biography and Obituary 5
Apology for the True Christian Divinity 5
Corinna, or, Italy 5
Histoire Littéraire d'Italie 5
Letters from the Illinois 1820-21 5
Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène. Journal de la Vie Privée et des Conversations de l'Empereur Napoléon, à Sainte Hélène 5
Second Series of Curiosities of Literature 5
Spaewife: A Tale of the Scottish Chronicles 5
Annals of Philosophy, or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics, Natural History, Agriculture, and the Arts 4
Asiatick Researches; or, Transactions of the Society, instituted in Bengal 4
Carwin, the Biloquist, and other American Tales and Pieces 4
Charlton; or, Scenes in the North of Ireland 4
Edinburgh Philosophical Journal 4
Elements of General History, Ancient and Modern 4
Fire-Eater 4
Gentleman's Magazine 4
Hermit Abroad 4

Book language

English 7744
French 45
Latin 18
German 9
Greek 4
Anglo-Saxon 3
Italian 3
Spanish 3
Icelandic 1

Book place of publication

Edinburgh 5207
London 2924
Paris 42
Cambridge 5
Dublin 4
Oxford 4
Berlin 3
Calcutta 3
Glasgow 3
Leipzig 3
Frankfurt am Main 2
Tübingen 2
Utrecht 2
Amsterdam 1
Breslau 1
Chiswick 1
Copenhagen 1
Göttingen 1
Heidelberg 1
Leiden 1
Londonderry 1
Madrid 1
Siena 1
Verona 1
Weimar 1

Book format

8vo 5745
folio 406
12mo 382
4to 237

Genre

Periodicals 5293
Fiction 924
Theology 598
Reference Works 443
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 313
Travel 238
History 196
Lives 154
Belles Lettres 115
Politics, Society and Political Economy 91
Philosophy and Morality 81
Law 44
Natural Philosophy 43
Poetry 34
Education 24
Medicine 13
Drama 9
Fine Arts 4
Sermons 3
Mathematics 2

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