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Library

Royal High School of Edinburgh 1951
Westerkirk 1370
Selkirk Library 1278
Leighton Library 929
Advocates Library 801
Glasgow University Library 766
St Andrews University Library 547
Edinburgh University Library 447
Aberdeen Theological Library 382
Innerpeffray Library 367
Wigtown Subscription Library 133
Orkney Library 87
Craigston Castle Library 53
Haddington Library 46
Hunterian Museum Library 21
Dumfries Presbytery Library 16
Chambers' Circulating Library 6
Inverness Kirk Sessions Library 1

Borrower title

Mr 1987
Reverend Mr 592
Dr 132
Captain 110
Lieutenant 100
Mrs 95
Sir 77
Reverend 63
Miss 52
Professor 32
Reverend Dr 25
Midshipman 14
Sous Lieutenant 12
Colonel 10
Right Honourable 9
Major 7
Rev. 6
Corporal 5
Prof. 5
Lady 4
Principal 4
Rev. Mr 3
Sous-Lieutenant 3
Bishop 1
Rev Mr 1

Borrower gender

Male 9013
Female 172
Unclear 5
Unknown 5

Borrower occupation

Education 4086
School Child 1923
University Student 1572
Law 939
Advocate 751
Religion and Clergy 692
Minister/Priest 662
University Professor 652
Church of Scotland 575
Military 364
Prisoner of War 302
Independent Means 224
Agricultural 215
Arts and Letters 211
Author 181
Sheriff 175
Tenant 167
Farmer 146
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 127
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 121
Medicine and Health 115
Writer/Procurator 115
Surgeon 110
Politics/Office Holders 107
Gentleman 97
MP (Britain) 78
Presbyterian Seceder 74
Dean of Faculty 68
Notaries/Clerks 68
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 66
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 63
Chaplain 55
Navy 47
Merchants/Traders 45
Construction 43
School Master/Dominie 42
Advocate Depute 34
Clerk of Session 33
Judge 33
Architect 27
Lay Preacher 24
Army 23
Mason/Miller 21
Print and Book Trade 19
Printers 19
Banker 18
Baron of the Exchequer 18
Lord Advocate 18
Teacher 17
Engineer 16
Librarian 16
Writer to the Signet (WS) 15
Barrister 13
Clerks 13
Baillie 12
Solicitor-General 12
Tanner/Currier 12
Customs Collector 11
Poet 11
Land Manager/Factor 10
Lord President 10
Dyer 9
Factor/Agent 9
Miscellaneous 9
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 9
Curator 8
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 7
Officer 7
Lord Provost/Provost 6
Retailer/Shopkeeper 5
Wife/Spouse 5
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 4
Physician 4
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 4
Widow 4
Accountant 3
Episcopalian 3
Lord Justice Clerk 3
Mariner 3
Ships Captain 3
Watchmaker 3
Advocate’s Clerk 2
Booksellers 2
Mill Owner 2
Publishers 2
Service Provision and Hospitality 2
Tutor 2
Brewer 1
Druggist/Chemist/Apothecary 1
Grocer 1
Messenger-at-arms 1
Provost 1
Secretary of State 1
Surveyor 1
Unknown denomination 1

Author

Charles Rollin 851
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon 690
Dr John Moore 360
Doctor Henry Hunter 356
Hugh Blair 323
Frances Burney 249
Robert Henry 243
William Robertson 230
William Russell 152
Hugo Arnot 143
Adam Ferguson 126
Edward Gibbon 118
Dr Samuel Johnson 112
Johann Lorenz Mosheim 101
John Campbell 101
Oliver Goldsmith 100
Reverend David Lamont 92
Gilbert Stuart 87
Samuel Richardson 84
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (France) 82
Vicesimus Knox 76
Ambrose Serle 73
John Newton 71
James Burnet Lord Monboddo 63
Sir David Dalrymple Lord Hailes 60
Abbé Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal 55
Eyles Irwin 51
William Cowper 51
Henry Mackenzie 49
Henry Swinburne 47
Catherine Macaulay 45
Humphrey Prideaux 45
Henry Fielding 41
William Alexander 40
Comtesse Stéphanie Félicité Genlis 39
Pietro Metastasio 39
Johann Georg Zimmermann 38
Reverend Augustus Toplady 38
Richard Graves 37
Robert Lowth 37
Voltaire 37
John Smith 33
James Riddoch 31
Robert Watson 30
Samuel Jackson Pratt 30
James Burrow 28
Johann David Michaelis 27
Thomas Newton Bishop of Bristol 27
William Coxe 27
Tobias George Smollett 26
Henry Home Lord Kames 25
James Beattie 25
Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire 24
John Hawkesworth 24
John Rickman 23
Helenus Scott 22
John Pinkerton 22
Louis-Sébastien Mercier 20
William Shakespeare 20
Abbé Claude François Xavier Millot 19
Alexander Gerard 19
Royal College of Physicians of London 19
Thomas Warton 19
John Millar 18
William Lothian 18
Joseph Warton 17
Thomas Scott 17
Jean Frédéric Ostervald 16
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 16
Wolfgang Seber 16
Alexander Pope 15
Samuel Foote 15
William Marsden 15
Donald MacNicol 14
Jean le Rond d' Alembert 14
William Hayley 14
William Thomson 14
Abbé Prévost 13
Denis Diderot 13
James Dunbar 13
James Harris 13
James Fitzjames Duke of Berwick 12
James Robertson 12
Joseph Jenkins 12
Thomas Davies 12
Académie royale des sciences et belles lettres (Berlin, Germany) 11
Adam Smith 11
Benjamin Bell 11
Francis Home 11
Jean André de Luc 11
John Cooke 11
John Gast 11
Jonathan Carver 11
Tiberius Cavallo 11
Charles Cordiner 10
George Carr 10
Nathaniel Lardner 10
Sir William Blackstone 10
Uno von Troil 10
William Bell 10

Book Work

Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians 851
Natural History, General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon 684
Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 545
Sacred Biography: or, The History of the Patriarchs from Adam to Abraham 356
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 243
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 240
View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany 211
Monthly Review. A Periodical Work, Giving an Account ... of, and Extracts from, the New Books, Pamphlets, &c. 199
History of America [William Robertson] 188
Scots Magazine 185
Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress 179
View of Society and Manners in Italy 154
History of Modern Europe 152
History of Edinburgh 143
History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic 126
New Annual Register 126
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 118
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 115
Ecclesiastical History [Johann Lorenz Mosheim] 98
Sermons on the Most Prevalent Vices [David Lamont] 92
Lives of the English Poets 90
Vicar of Wakefield 89
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
History of Sir Charles Grandison 84
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres 83
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres 75
Horae Solitariae 73
Evelina, or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World 70
History of Scotland, from the Establishment of the Reformation, till the Death of Queen Mary 67
Lives of the Admirals and Other Eminent British Seamen 61
Annals of Scotland [David Dalrymple] 60
Of the Origin and Progress of Language 58
Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill 56
Series of Adventures in the Course of a Voyage up the Red-Sea 51
Essays Moral and Literary 50
Mirror 49
Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time to the Present 48
Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies 47
Masquerades; or, What You Will 46
Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations 45
Cardiphonia: or, The Utterance of the Heart; in the Course of a Real Correspondence 42
History of England [Catherine Macaulay] 42
Medical Commentaries [Andrew Duncan] 41
History of Women, from the Earliest Antiquity, to the Present Time 40
Lives of the British Admirals: Containing a New and Accurate Naval History 40
Poesie del Signor Abate Pietro Metastasio 39
Posthumous Works [Augustus Toplady] 38
Columella; or, The Distressed Anchoret 37
Solitude; or The Effect of Occasional Retirement on the Mind, the Heart, General Society, in Exile, in Old Age, and on the Bed of Death 37
Isaiah. A New Translation; with a Preliminary Dissertation, and Notes Critical, Philological, and Explanatory 34
Mirror [Edinburgh] 32
Sermons on Several Subjects and Occasions [James Riddoch] 31
Emma Corbett; or, The Miseries of Civil War 30
Galic Antiquities: Consisting of a History of the Druids 30
Medical Observations and Inquiries 30
Parliamentary Register; or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons 30
Theatre of Education. Translated from the French of the Countess de Genlis 30
Works of Henry Fielding 30
Olney Hymns 29
Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, since the Death of Lord Raymond 28
Age of Louis XIV 27
Travels through Spain, in the Years 1775 and 1776 27
Works of the Right Reverend Thomas Newton 27
Expedition of Humphry Clinker 26
Liberal Education: or, A Practical Treatise on the Methods of Acquiring Useful and Polite Learning 26
Scotch Preacher: or, A Collection of Sermons, by Some of the Most Eminent Clergymen of the Church of Scotland 26
History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V 25
Introductory Lectures to the Sacred Book of the New Testament 25
Almoran and Hamet, An Oriental Tale 24
Sylph; A Novel 24
Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, on Discovery 23
Adventures of a Rupee 22
Dissertations Moral and Critical 22
Loose Hints upon Education, Chiefly Concerning the Culture of the Heart 22
Poems [William Cowper] 22
Travels in the Two Sicilies 20
Elements of General History 19
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
Scottish Tragic Ballads 19
Sermons [Alexander Gerard] 19
Supplement to the Edition of Shakspeare's Plays published in 1778 by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens 19
Tableau de Paris 19
History of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, from the Death of Philip II. King of Spain, to the Truce made with Albert and Isabella 18
Origin of the Distinction of Ranks 18
Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope 17
Force of Truth: An Authentic Narrative 17
History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and King James VI 17
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets 17
History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain 16
Index Vocabulorum in Homeri Iliade atque Odyssea Caeterisque Quotquot Extant Poematis 16
Lectures on the Exercise of the Sacred Ministry 16
Plays of William Shakespeare 16
Sketches of the Natural, Civil, and Political State of Swisserland 16
Dramatic Works of Samuel Foote 15
History of Sumatra 15
Poems [John Logan] 15
Works of Alexander Pope 15
English Review, or An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature 14
History of the Reign of Philip the Third, King of Spain 14

Book language

English 8523
French 477
Latin 117
Italian 54
Greek 29
Spanish 18
Hebrew 12
German 5
Icelandic 4
Saami 1

Book place of publication

London 7205
Edinburgh 1366
Paris 363
Dublin 58
Aberdeen 48
Oxford 44
The Hague 36
Amsterdam 35
Bath 33
Neuchâtel 26
Glasgow 23
Leipzig 21
Geneva 19
Dumfries 17
Madrid 17
Stirling 17
Cambridge 14
Berlin 13
Göttingen 12
Shrewsbury 12
Stockholm 10
St Petersburg 9
Florence 8
Philadelphia 7
Warrington 5
i.e. Amsterdam? 5
York 4
Birmingham 3
Copenhagen 3
Maastricht 3
Naples 3
Strasbourg 3
Twickenham 3
Altona 2
Canterbury 2
Dessau 2
Eton 2
Leiden 2
Lille 2
Liège 2
Paisley 2
Rome 2
Strabane 2
Valencia 2
Venice 2
Bern 1
Bouillon 1
Copenhagen? 1
Dresden 1
Halle 1
Jena 1
Marseille 1
Newcastle upon Tyne 1
Prague 1
Siena 1
Trondheim 1
Turin 1
Verona 1
Vienna 1
Yverdon 1

Book format

8vo 6119
4to 1663
12mo 1106
folio 159
18mo 74
16mo 18
24mo 3
unknown 2
score 1

Genre

History 2794
Periodicals 1538
Sermons 860
Natural Philosophy 838
Theology 836
Fiction 716
Travel 612
Belles Lettres 583
Lives 387
Poetry 297
Medicine 203
Philosophy and Morality 192
Law 149
Education 133
Drama 129
Politics, Society and Political Economy 119
Reference Works 50
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 33
Fine Arts 32
Mathematics 19

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