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Library

Orkney Library 3842
Wigtown Subscription Library 1142
Advocates Library 541
Selkirk Library 436
Westerkirk 430
Leighton Library 373
Chambers' Circulating Library 351
Royal High School of Edinburgh 176
Edinburgh University Library 59
Innerpeffray Library 51
St Andrews University Library 22
Craigston Castle Library 9
Glasgow University Library 5

Borrower title

Mr 2718
Reverend Mr 1320
Captain 440
Dr 428
Mrs 319
Reverend 139
Miss 121
Lieutenant 63
Major 40
Sir 29
Reverend Dr 26
Lady 21
Colonel 4
Brigadier General 3
Corporal 3
Honourable 2
Mrs General 2
Sous Lieutenant 2
Sous-Lieutenant 2
Madame 1
Midshipman 1
Professor 1

Borrower gender

Male 6957
Female 466
Unknown 11
Unclear 6

Borrower occupation

Religion and Clergy 1139
Minister/Priest 1137
Law 1114
Church of Scotland 937
Independent Means 897
Gentleman 568
Advocate 542
Military 512
Writer/Procurator 473
Education 430
Medicine and Health 423
Navy 370
Politics/Office Holders 338
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 330
Arts and Letters 230
Physician 220
Surgeon 196
Sheriff 192
Customs Collector 176
School Child 175
Unknown denomination 153
Author 144
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 140
Agricultural 113
University Student 108
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 97
Merchants/Traders 92
Prisoner of War 86
School Master/Dominie 86
Poet 70
Farmer 64
Tenant 60
Lord Provost/Provost 58
Army 57
Advocate Depute 54
Miscellaneous 54
Wife/Spouse 54
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 53
Tax Collector 53
Librarian 52
Mariner 50
Ships Owner 50
Booksellers 48
Print and Book Trade 48
University Professor 48
Presbyterian Seceder 45
Bookbinder 42
Land Manager/Factor 41
Service Provision and Hospitality 34
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 32
Dean of Faculty 31
Notaries/Clerks 29
Barrister 25
MP (Britain) 24
Grocer 22
Surveyor 22
Accountant 21
Banker 21
Clerk of Session 20
Tanner/Currier 18
Solicitor-General 16
Construction 15
Factor/Agent 15
Architect 13
Writer to the Signet (WS) 13
Teacher 12
Watchmaker 12
Distiller 11
Judge 10
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 9
Baillie 8
Clerks 8
Druggist/Chemist/Apothecary 7
Lord Advocate 7
Lord Justice Clerk 6
Publishers 6
Dyer 5
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 4
Officer 4
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 3
Baron of the Exchequer 2
Engineer 2
Lay Preacher 2
Lord President 2
Messenger-at-arms 2
Tutor 2
Brewer 1
Chaplain 1
Magistrate 1

Author

David Brewster 397
Sir Walter Scott 230
David Hume 125
George Gordon Byron Lord Byron 120
Alexander von Humboldt 73
Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan 55
Dugald Stewart 54
George Chalmers 46
Charles Robert Maturin 44
Susan Ferrier 42
Tobias George Smollett 41
Charlotte Champion Willyams 40
Jane Louise Willyams 40
Edward Daniel Clarke 36
Edmund Burke 34
Henry Mackenzie 30
John Shillibeer 30
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 29
Alexander Ranken 27
John M'Leod 25
Vasiliĭ Mikhaĭlovich Golovnin 25
Baron Horatio Walpole 24
Ebenezer Henderson 22
Royal College of Physicians of London 19
William Kirby 19
William Spence 19
Morris Birkbeck 18
William Mitford 18
Colonel Francis Hall 12
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Mary Godwin 12
Robert Southey 11
Samuel William Ryley 11
Christoph Martin Wieland 9
Jane Austen 9
William Cobbett 9
Madame Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël 8
Alexander Bower 6
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 6
Sharon Turner 6
Captain Basil Hall 5
Henry Light 5
Herbert John Clifford 5
James Hogg 5
Lucy Aikin 5
Pierre Louis Ginguené 5
William Coxe 5
William Russell 5
Adam Neale 4
Charles Phillips 4
Freiherr Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué 4
Horace Walpole 4
Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de Sismondi 4
Jean-François Georgel 4
Jens Andreas Bramsen 4
Marco Polo 4
Sir Henry Moncrieff-Wellwood 4
William Kennedy 4
William King 4
William Mariner 4
William Marsden 4
Amelia Alderson Opie 3
Benjamin Franklin 3
Bernard O'Reilly 3
Clarke Abel 3
Comtesse Stéphanie Félicité Genlis 3
Elizabeth Benger 3
Elizabeth Hamilton 3
Euripides 3
Filippo Pananti 3
George Miller D. D. 3
Henry Ellis 3
Henry Kirke White 3
James Hingston Tuckey 3
John Macdonald Kinneir 3
Joseph François Michaud 3
Marcus Tullius Cicero 3
Richard Bright 3
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 3
Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle 3
Thomas Hartwell Horne 3
Thomas Moore 3
William Hazlitt 3
William Temple Franklin 3
Académie Royale des sciences (Paris) Académie des sciences (Paris) 2
Aeschylus 2
Alexander Maconochie 2
André Morellet 2
Anna Maria Porter 2
Charles E. Dod 2
Ernst Konrad Friedrich Schulze 2
Frances Burney 2
Friedrich von Schlegel 2
George Shaw 2
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 2
Henry Hart Milman 2
James Baldwin Brown 2
John Aikin 2
John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton 2
John Dow 2
John Keats 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
Rob Roy 149
New Annual Register 126
History of England [David Hume] 125
Works of Lord Byron 120
Eclectic Review 98
Tales of my Landlord [Second Series] 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
Literary and Statistical Magazine for Scotland 55
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind 54
Women 44
Marriage, a Novel 42
Complete History of England [Tobias Smollett] 41
Coquetry 40
France [Lady Morgan] 38
Caledonia: or, An Account, Historical and Topographic, of North Britain 36
Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa 36
Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke 34
Monthly Magazine and British Register 33
Narrative of the Briton's Voyage, to Pitcairn's Island 30
Works of Henry Mackenzie 30
Don Quixote 29
History of France [Alexander Ranken] 27
Narrative of my Captivity in Japan during the years 1811, 1812 and 1813 25
Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste, along the Coast of Corea, to the Island of Lewchew 25
Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford 24
Iceland; or the Journal of a Residence in that Island during the years 1814 and 1815 22
Introduction to Entomology, or, Elements of the Natural History of Insects 19
Medical Transactions, Published by the College of Physicians in London 19
History of Greece [William Mitford] 18
Notes on a Journey in America 18
Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale 17
Asiatick Researches; or, Transactions of the Society, instituted in Bengal 13
Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus 12
New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature 12
Travels in Canada, and the United States, in 1816 and 1817 12
Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland 11
Itinerant, or Memoirs of an Actor 11
Spirit of the Public Journals 11
British Critic 10
Life of Mary, Queen of Scots; Drawn from the State Papers 10
Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings 9
Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion 9
Sämmtliche Werke 9
History of Brazil 8
Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution 7
Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester 7
Pamphleteer 7
History of England [Sharon Turner] 6
History of the University of Edinburgh 6
Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo island 5
Annual Biography and Obituary 5
Brownie of Bodsbeck, and Other Tales 5
Histoire Littéraire d'Italie 5
History of Modern Europe 5
Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough 5
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth 5
Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Holy Land, Mount Libanon, and Cyprus, in ... 1814 5
Account of the Life and Writings of John Erskine 4
Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean 4
Annals of Aberdeen 4
Annals of Philosophy, or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics, Natural History, Agriculture, and the Arts 4
Gentleman's Magazine 4
Histoire des Républiques Italiennes du Moyen Âge 4
Letters from the Hon. Horace Walpole, to the Rev. W. Cole, and Others 4
Letters of a Prussian Traveller 4
Mémoires pour Servir a l'Histoire des événemens de la Fin du Dix-Huitième Siècle depuis 1760 jusqu'en 1806-1810, 4
Political and Literary Anecdotes of His Own Times 4
Recollections of Curran and Some of His Contemporaries 4
Travels Through Some Parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia and Turkey 4
Travels of Marco Polo ... Translated from the Italian, with Notes by William Marsden 4
Werke [Goethe] 4
Characters of Shakespear's Plays 3
Fudge Family in Paris 3
Greenland, the Adjacent Seas, and the North-West Passage to the Pacific Ocean 3
Histoire des Croisades 3
Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures 3
Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China 3
Journey through Asia Minor, Armenia, and Koordistan in the years 1813 and 1814 3
Kleine Romane [Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué] 3
Lectures on the Philosophy of Modern History 3
Memoirs of the Late Mrs Elizabeth Hamilton 3
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin 3
Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China 3
Narrative of a Residence in Algiers 3
Narrative of an Expedition to Explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816 3
New Tales 3
Prize Essays and Transactions of the Highland Society of Scotland 3
Remains of Henry Kirke White ... With an Account of his Life, by Robert Southey 3
Spanish America; or, a Descriptive, Historical and Geographical Account of the Dominions of Spain in the Western Hemisphere 3
Sporting Magazine 3
Travels from Vienna Through Lower Hungary 3
Zuma, ou la Découverte du Quinquina, suivi de la Belle Paule, de Zénéïde, des Roseaux du Tibre 3

Book language

English 7356
French 34
German 28
Latin 15
Italian 3
Greek 2
Urdu 2
Icelandic 1
Spanish 1

Book place of publication

Edinburgh 4910
London 2856
Glasgow 31
Paris 31
Stuttgart 13
Leipzig 9
Berlin 6
Dublin 5
Cambridge 4
Calcutta 3
Bath 2
Oxford 2
Tübingen 2
Utrecht 2
Copenhagen 1
Erfurt 1
Florence 1
Göttingen 1
Halle 1
Heidelberg 1
Leeds 1
Leghorn 1
Leiden 1
Madrid 1
Munich 1
Preston 1
Siena 1
Verona 1

Book format

8vo 4998
12mo 427
folio 403
4to 257

Genre

Periodicals 5194
Theology 595
Fiction 495
Reference Works 441
Travel 345
History 334
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 289
Poetry 141
Philosophy and Morality 94
Lives 86
Belles Lettres 68
Natural Philosophy 36
Law 28
Medicine 25
Education 23
Politics, Society and Political Economy 16
Drama 13
Sermons 4
Fine Arts 1
Mathematics 1
Miscellaneous/Other 1

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