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Library

Westerkirk 1999
Selkirk Library 1625
Leighton Library 756
Royal High School of Edinburgh 679
Advocates Library 548
Innerpeffray Library 216
Wigtown Subscription Library 164
Edinburgh University Library 155
Orkney Library 152
Aberdeen Theological Library 150
Glasgow University Library 63
Chambers' Circulating Library 39
St Andrews University Library 36
Craigston Castle Library 26
Hunterian Museum Library 12
Dumfries Presbytery Library 11
Haddington Library 10

Borrower title

Mr 1891
Reverend Mr 660
Captain 109
Lieutenant 108
Mrs 100
Sir 57
Reverend 55
Miss 53
Dr 49
Reverend Dr 20
Colonel 13
Midshipman 12
Sous Lieutenant 9
Right Honourable 8
Prof. 6
Corporal 5
Lady 4
Professor 4
Sous-Lieutenant 4
Brigadier General 2
Principal 2
Rev. 2
Adjudant Major 1
Lieutenant Colonel 1
Major 1

Borrower gender

Male 6457
Female 176
Unclear 1
Unknown 1

Borrower occupation

Education 1182
Law 724
School Child 671
Advocate 521
Religion and Clergy 486
Minister/Priest 476
Military 398
University Student 380
Church of Scotland 371
Prisoner of War 363
Agricultural 262
Independent Means 236
Tenant 207
Farmer 184
Arts and Letters 175
Author 162
Medicine and Health 151
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 150
Surgeon 144
Writer/Procurator 139
University Professor 111
Sheriff 108
Politics/Office Holders 104
Presbyterian Seceder 97
Gentleman 86
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 84
MP (Britain) 64
Notaries/Clerks 64
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 58
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 46
Construction 38
School Master/Dominie 36
Merchants/Traders 31
Dean of Faculty 30
Navy 30
Architect 28
Advocate Depute 25
Mason/Miller 25
Barrister 20
Tanner/Currier 19
Writer to the Signet (WS) 19
Army 18
Clerk of Session 18
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 16
Banker 14
Factor/Agent 13
Judge 13
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 13
Miscellaneous 13
Customs Collector 12
Baillie 11
Clerks 11
Lord Advocate 10
Lord Provost/Provost 10
Wife/Spouse 10
Dyer 9
Accountant 8
Chaplain 8
Engineer 8
Lay Preacher 8
Surveyor 8
Teacher 8
Physician 7
Poet 7
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 6
Baron of the Exchequer 6
Librarian 5
Mariner 5
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 5
Print and Book Trade 5
Episcopalian 4
Land Manager/Factor 4
Solicitor-General 4
Tax Collector 4
Booksellers 3
Curator 3
Printers 3
Ships Owner 3
Unknown denomination 3
Widow 3
Advocate’s Clerk 2
Bookbinder 2
Builder 2
Lord President 2
Officer 2
Ships Captain 2
Tutor 2
Brewer 1
Gardener 1
Mill Owner 1
Publishers 1
Service Provision and Hospitality 1
Watchmaker 1

Author

Doctor Henry Hunter 392
Sir John Sinclair 308
Robert Henry 243
Hugh Blair 235
Tobias George Smollett 232
William Russell 221
Charles Rollin 200
Edward Gibbon 150
David Hume 137
Charlotte Turner Smith 131
Ann Radcliffe 126
Flavius Josephus 106
Henry Brooke 103
William Coxe 99
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 82
Robert Heron 82
Richard Cumberland 80
Joseph Townsend 75
Geoffrey Chaucer 71
William Smellie 71
John Logan 70
Bryce Johnston 69
Donald Campbell 69
Thomas Mortimer 61
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 60
Robert McCulloch 51
John Evans 49
Dr John Moore 48
Johann Caspar Lavater 43
Dugald Stewart 42
John Gillies 40
James Boswell 39
Reverend Augustus Toplady 37
Robert Burns 37
Joseph Moser 34
Oliver Goldsmith 34
Bielby Porteus 32
Rev. John Bennett 32
Samuel Jackson Pratt 32
Karl Philipp Moritz 31
Freiherr von Adolf Knigge 29
James Beattie 29
Alexander Pope 28
Bryan Edwards 28
Charles John Ann Hereford 28
Pierre Marie François Pagès 27
Thomas Gisborne 26
Abbé Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal 24
Pierre Nicolas Chantreau 24
Samuel Hearne 23
Carsten Niebuhr 22
Henry Venn 22
John Spalding 22
Thomas Holcroft 22
Henry Mackenzie 21
William Paley 21
Edward Stillingfleet 19
Olaudah Equiano 19
Pausanias 19
Royal College of Physicians of London 19
William Roscoe 19
Carl Peter Thunberg 18
John Gifford 18
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon 17
Stephen Jones 17
Benjamin Franklin 15
Peter Pindar John Wolcot 15
Arthur Young 13
Jacob Bryant 13
Jonathan Swift 13
Jedidiah Morse 12
John Aikin 12
Henry Lemaire 11
Thomas Somerville 11
Adam Smith 10
James Gregory 10
Jean Siffrein Maury 10
William Robertson 10
Gilbert Stuart 9
Hector Macneill 9
John Lettice 9
Thomas Watkins A. M. 9
William Belsham 9
George Chalmers 8
James Cavanah Murphy 8
Society of Antiquaries of London 8
William Beloe 8
William Graham 8
William Penn 8
Académie royale des sciences et belles lettres (Berlin, Germany) 7
Friedrich Schiller 7
Joseph Addison 7
Linnean Society of London 7
Robert Blair 7
William Gilpin 7
William Mitford 7
William Newcome 7
Alexis Rochon 6
Christoph Martin Wieland 6
James Stuart 6

Book Work

Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 520
Sacred Biography: or, The History of the Patriarchs from Adam to Abraham 356
Statistical Account of Scotland 308
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 243
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 235
Encyclopaedia Britannica 222
Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians 200
Scots Magazine 185
History of England [Tobias Smollett] 180
History of Modern Europe 152
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 150
History of England [David Hume] 137
New Annual Register 126
Mysteries of Udolpho 110
Works of Flavius Josephus 106
Fool of Quality, or, The History of Henry Earl of Moreland 103
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark 99
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
Don Quixote 82
Journey through Spain in the Years 1786 and 1787 75
Observations Made in a Journey through the Western Counties of Scotland, in the Autumn of M.DCC.XCII 74
Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal 73
Canterbury Tales 71
Philosophy of Natural History 71
Sermons [John Logan] 70
Commentary on the Revelation of St John 69
History of Ancient Europe 69
Journey over Land to India 69
Henry [Richard Cumberland] 65
British Plutarch 61
Paul and Virginia 59
Banished Man. A Novel 56
Lectures on the Prophecies of Isaiah 51
Adventures of Roderick Random 49
Brief Sketch of the Several Denominations into which the Christian World is Divided 49
Desmond. A Novel 44
Journal during a Residence in France 42
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind 41
Medical Commentaries [Andrew Duncan] 41
History of Ancient Greece, its Colonies and Conquests 40
Life of Samuel Johnson [James Boswell] 39
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect [Robert Burns] 37
Sermons and Essays [Augustus Toplady] 37
Sermons [Henry Hunter] 36
Turkish Tales 34
Gleanings through Wales, Holland and Westphalia ... To which is added Humanity; or The Rights of Nature. A Poem 32
Letters to a Young Lady, on a Variety of Useful and Interesting Subjects 32
Sermons on Several Subjects [Beilby Porteus] 32
Desmond 31
Travels, Chiefly on Foot, through Several Parts of England, in 1782 31
Parliamentary Register; or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons 30
History of Spain, from the Establishment of the Colony of Gades by the Phoenicians, to the Death of Ferdinand, surnamed The Sage 28
History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies 28
Works of Alexander Pope 28
Travels Round the World, in the Years 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771 27
Scotch Preacher: or, A Collection of Sermons, by Some of the Most Eminent Clergymen of the Church of Scotland 26
Elements of Moral Science 24
Enquiry into the Duties of Men in the Higher and Middle Classes of Society in Great Britain 24
Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind 24
Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies 24
Philosophical, Political, and Literary Travels in Russia, during the Years 1788 & 1789 24
Adventurer 23
German Gil Blas; or, The Adventures of Peter Claus 23
Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean 23
Anna St. Ives: a novel 22
Complete Duty of Man: or, A System of Doctrinal and Practical Christianity 22
History of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland, from the Year 1624 to 1645 22
Travels through Arabia 22
Graeciae Descriptio Accurata 19
Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano 19
Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent 19
Medical Transactions, Published by the College of Physicians in London 19
Secret Journal of a Self-Observer; or, Confessions and Familiar Letters of the Rev. J. C. Lavater 19
Sermons on Some of the Principal Doctrines of the Christian Religion 19
View of the Evidences of Christianity 19
History of France, from the Earliest Times, to the Accession of Louis the Sixteenth 18
Travels in Europe, Africa, and Asia Performed between the years 1770 and 1779 18
History of Poland, from its Origin as a Nation to the Commencement of the Year 1795 17
Natural History of Birds 17
Journey through Holland and Germany 16
Analytical Review 15
Calvary; or The Death of Christ. A Poem 15
Citizen of the World 15
Mirror 15
English Review, or An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature 14
Works of Peter Pindar 14
Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin 14
Gulliver's Travels 13
Observations upon the Plagues Inflicted upon the Egyptians 13
American Geography; or, A View of the Present Situation of the United States of America 12
Letters from a Father to his Son, on Various Topics, relative to Literature and the Conduct of Life 12
New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature 12
French Gil Blas; or, Adventures of Henry Lanson 11
History of Political Transactions, and of Parties, from the Restoration of King Charles the Second, to the Death of King William 11
Vicar of Wakefield 11
British Critic 10
Essays on Philosophical Subjects 10
Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India 10
Philosophical and Literary Essays [James Gregory] 10
Principles of Eloquence; Adapted to the Pulpit and the Bar 10

Book language

English 6507
French 65
Latin 37
German 19
Italian 9
Greek 3
Scots 3
Hebrew 1
Icelandic 1
Spanish 1

Book place of publication

London 4677
Edinburgh 1822
Perth 178
Oxford 77
Dublin 61
Paris 49
York 45
Aberdeen 22
Leipzig 22
Liverpool 19
Berlin 10
Glasgow 10
Göttingen 9
Cambridge 6
Norwich 5
The Hague 5
Burlington 4
Naples 4
Amsterdam 3
Calcutta 3
Lausanne 3
Madrid 3
Neuchâtel 3
Newark 3
Philadelphia 3
Altenburg 2
Bath 2
Frankfurt am Main 2
Leiden 2
Liverno 2
Shrewsbury 2
Utrecht 2
Canterbury 1
Carlisle 1
Copenhagen 1
Dresden 1
Gloucester 1
Halle 1
Jena 1
Lynn 1
Manchester 1
Pisa 1
Prague 1
Siena 1
Venice 1
Verona 1

Book format

8vo 4145
12mo 1401
4to 1085
folio 40
16mo 34
18mo 22

Genre

History 1437
Periodicals 1171
Sermons 878
Fiction 788
Travel 663
Theology 576
Politics, Society and Political Economy 360
Poetry 259
Reference Works 239
Lives 219
Natural Philosophy 156
Philosophy and Morality 139
Belles Lettres 102
Medicine 82
Law 61
Education 53
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 42
Fine Arts 12
Drama 7
Mathematics 5

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