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Library

Orkney Library 3490
Westerkirk 802
Selkirk Library 747
Wigtown Subscription Library 639
Advocates Library 563
Leighton Library 429
Royal High School of Edinburgh 334
Chambers' Circulating Library 190
Innerpeffray Library 108
Edinburgh University Library 62
St Andrews University Library 23
Hunterian Museum Library 11
Craigston Castle Library 10
Glasgow University Library 8

Borrower title

Mr 2748
Reverend Mr 1221
Captain 415
Dr 315
Mrs 306
Miss 122
Lieutenant 96
Reverend 75
Reverend Dr 48
Sir 35
Lady 23
Major 16
Corporal 7
Brigadier General 5
Colonel 4
Professor 4
Right Honourable 4
Sous Lieutenant 4
Sous-Lieutenant 4
Honourable Mrs 2
Mrs General 2
Madame 1
Midshipman 1
Mrs Captain 1
Professor Sir 1

Borrower gender

Male 6939
Female 461
Unknown 11
Unclear 4

Borrower occupation

Religion and Clergy 1072
Minister/Priest 1068
Law 975
Independent Means 892
Church of Scotland 867
Education 641
Advocate 582
Gentleman 572
Military 538
Navy 361
Politics/Office Holders 341
Medicine and Health 338
School Child 336
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 322
Writer/Procurator 304
Surgeon 208
Arts and Letters 207
Sheriff 170
Agricultural 161
Author 154
University Student 152
Unknown denomination 151
Customs Collector 142
Prisoner of War 133
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 130
Physician 128
Farmer 127
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 122
Tenant 122
Merchants/Traders 95
Tax Collector 84
School Master/Dominie 69
University Professor 68
Mariner 53
Ships Owner 53
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 47
Presbyterian Seceder 47
Army 46
Advocate Depute 45
Miscellaneous 44
Wife/Spouse 44
MP (Britain) 38
Surveyor 37
Dean of Faculty 36
Librarian 35
Lord Provost/Provost 35
Notaries/Clerks 35
Tanner/Currier 30
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 29
Barrister 28
Poet 26
Booksellers 23
Print and Book Trade 23
Land Manager/Factor 20
Bookbinder 19
Banker 18
Clerk of Session 18
Construction 17
Factor/Agent 17
Watchmaker 17
Teacher 15
Writer to the Signet (WS) 15
Architect 13
Service Provision and Hospitality 12
Judge 11
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 11
Accountant 10
Mason/Miller 10
Solicitor-General 9
Baillie 8
Clerks 8
Baron of the Exchequer 6
Distiller 6
Dyer 6
Grocer 5
Officer 5
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 4
Chaplain 4
Lord Advocate 4
Lord Justice Clerk 4
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 4
Publishers 4
Engineer 3
Curator 2
Druggist/Chemist/Apothecary 2
Lay Preacher 2
Lord President 2
Messenger-at-arms 2
Tutor 2
Brewer 1
Builder 1
Mill Owner 1
Musician 1

Author

David Brewster 398
Maria Edgeworth 212
Sir Walter Scott 192
James Bruce 171
William Robertson 153
Edward Gibbon 136
Thomas McCrie 132
Mary Brunton 110
John Knox 95
Edward Daniel Clarke 84
Alexander von Humboldt 78
Christian Isobel Johnstone 74
Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan 71
Jane Austen 69
Henry Fielding 66
Robert Southey 60
James Hogg 57
William Paley 51
Sarah Harriet Burney 48
Joanna Baillie 46
Frances Burney 45
Thomas Campbell 44
Adam Ferguson 42
Dugald Stewart 41
Sir John Sinclair 39
John Lambert 37
George Chalmers 36
Vicomte François-René de Chateaubriand 33
Robert Burns 32
William Cowper 32
William Hayley 32
John Chetwode Eustace 31
Edmund Burke 30
John Graham Dalyell 29
Joseph Weber 29
Alexander Ranken 27
Baron Horatio Walpole 24
William Cobbett 23
Barbara Hofland 22
Jane Porter 22
Hector Macneill 20
Alexander Bower 19
Maria Graham Lady Callcott 19
Royal College of Physicians of London 19
Hugo Arnot 17
John Pinkerton 17
William Mitford 17
Claudius Buchanan 16
John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton 16
James Playfair 15
Margaret Cullen 15
Patrick Graham Minister of Aberfoyle 15
Francis L, Clarke 14
George Low 14
James Macpherson 14
George Gordon Byron Lord Byron 13
James Beattie 12
Edward Blaquière 11
Samuel William Ryley 11
Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine 11
Margravine Wilhelmine Consort of Friedrich, Margrave of Bayreuth 10
S. Gener 10
John Wilson 'Christopher North' 9
Thomas Clarkson 9
Beatrice Grant 8
Elizabeth Hamilton 8
Alexander Chalmers 7
Great Britain Board of Agriculture 7
Henry Salt 7
Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia, consort of William V, Prince of Orange 7
Sir Robert Ker Porter 7
John Campbell 6
John Craig FRSE 6
Robert Hamilton 6
Sharon Turner 6
Aeschylus 5
Alexander Crombie 5
Anthony Frederick Holstein 5
Elizabeth Hervey 5
James Grahame 5
Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de Sismondi 5
John Galt 5
John Johnstone 5
Mrs Elizabeth Meeke 5
Pierre Louis Ginguené 5
Samuel Horsley 5
Thomas Chalmers 5
William Wordsworth 5
Anthony Hamilton 4
Baron Georges Cuvier 4
George Paxton 4
Jean Baptiste Louis Crevier 4
Jean Froissart 4
Mark Wilks 4
Marquis Pierre Simon de Laplace 4
Matthew Flinders 4
Mrs Ross 4
Robert Jameson 4
Thomas Thomson 4
William Harris 4

Book Work

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
Bible 289
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile [James Bruce] 171
Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since 161
Works of William Robertson 153
Tales of Fashionable Life 130
New Annual Register 126
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 112
Eclectic Review 98
Life of John Knox ... To which is Subjoined an Appendix Consisting of Letters 95
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa 84
Patronage 82
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent during the Years 1799-1804 77
Saxon and the Gael; or, The Northern Metropolis: including a View of the Lowland and Highland Character 74
Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal 73
O'Donnel: A National Tale 71
Select Works of Henry Fielding 66
Pride and Prejudice: A Novel 64
Discipline 62
Queen's Wake 57
Edinburgh Annual Register 56
Life of Nelson 50
Traits of Nature 48
Plays on the Passions 46
Self-Control: A Novel 46
Wanderer 45
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind 41
General report of the agricultural state, and political circumstances, of Scotland 39
Life of John Knox 37
Travels through Canada, and the United States of North America, in the years 1806, 1807, & 1808 37
Caledonia: or, An Account, Historical and Topographic, of North Britain 36
Monthly Magazine and British Register 33
Travels in Greece, Palestine, Egypt, and Barbary, during the Years 1806 and 1807 33
Life and Posthumous Writings [chiefly Letters] of William Cowper 32
Works of Robert Burns 32
Tour through Italy 30
Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke 30
Memoirs of Maria Antoinetta, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of France and Navarre 29
Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea 29
Rokeby; a Poem 28
History of France [Alexander Ranken] 27
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry 25
Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon 24
Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect [Peter Forbes] 24
Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford 24
Gertrude of Wyoming, and other poems 23
Thaddeus of Warsaw 22
Scottish Adventurers, or, The Way to Rise; An Historical Tale 20
Life of Luther 19
Medical Transactions, Published by the College of Physicians in London 19
Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy 19
Collection and Abridgement of Celebrated Criminal Trials in Scotland 17
History of Greece [William Mitford] 17
Journey through Albania and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia 16
Letters on India 16
Christian Researches in Asia; with Notices of the Translation of the Scriptures into the Oriental Languages 15
Gertrude of Wyoming, and Other Poems 15
Mornton: a Novel 15
Sketches of Perthshire 15
System of Geography, Ancient and Modern 15
Fauna Orcadensis 14
Iwanowna; or, the Maid of Moscow 14
Life of the Most Noble Arthur Marquis and Earl of Wellington 14
Poems of Ossian 14
Asiatick Researches; or, Transactions of the Society, instituted in Bengal 13
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 13
An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth 12
Enquiry into the History of Scotland Preceding the Reign of Malcom III 12
New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature 12
Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland 11
Horae Paulinae, or The Truth of the Scripture History of St Paul Evinced 11
Itinerant, or Memoirs of an Actor 11
Letters from the Mediterranean; containing a Civil and Political Account of Sicily, Tripoly, Tunis, and Malta 11
Sermons of William Paley 11
Spirit of the Public Journals 11
British Critic 10
Mémoires de Frédérique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse 10
Natural Theology 10
Translations of M. Gener, being a Selection of Letters on Life and Manners 10
Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings 9
Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates 9
Explanation of the Engravings of the Most Important Implements of Husbandry Used in Scotland 9
Historical Sketches of Politics and Public Men 9
Isle of Palms, and Other Poems 9
Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of William Penn 9
Speeches ... When at the Bar, on Subjects Connected with the Liberty of the Press 9
History of Brazil 8
Series of Popular Essays, Illustrative of Principles Essentially Connected with the Improvement of the Understanding, the Imagination, and the Heart 8
Sketches of intellectual education, and hints on domestic economy, addressed to inexperienced mothers 8
Visit to London; or, Emily and her Friends 8
General Biographical Dictionary 7
Memoirs of Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia 7
Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester 7
Narrative of the Campaign in Russia during the year 1812 [Ker Porter] 7
Pamphleteer 7

Book language

English 7285
French 85
Latin 22
German 13
Italian 7
Greek 6
Icelandic 1
Spanish 1

Book place of publication

London 4268
Edinburgh 3393
Paris 73
Glasgow 18
Inverness 8
Berlin 6
Cambridge 6
Dundee 5
Dunfermline 5
Göttingen 5
Leipzig 5
Edinburguh 4
Calcutta 3
Leith 3
Philadelphia 3
Bristol 2
Dublin 2
Florence 2
Montpellier 2
Nottingham 2
Padua 2
Tübingen 2
Utrecht 2
Bath 1
Copenhagen 1
Frankfurt am Main 1
Hackney 1
Halle 1
Ironbridge 1
Kidderminster 1
Königsberg 1
Leiden 1
Madrid 1
Milan 1
Oxford 1
Siena 1
Verona 1
Zierizee 1

Book format

8vo 4093
4to 716
12mo 678
folio 406
18mo 136

Genre

Periodicals 3169
Fiction 980
Theology 932
Travel 580
History 478
Reference Works 445
Lives 436
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 330
Poetry 281
Belles Lettres 151
Philosophy and Morality 109
Politics, Society and Political Economy 94
Drama 64
Natural Philosophy 54
Law 53
Medicine 34
Education 16
Sermons 13
Fine Arts 10
Mathematics 4

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