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Library

Orkney Library 13151
Selkirk Library 8350
Westerkirk 6588
Chambers' Circulating Library 6585
Wigtown Subscription Library 5440
Royal High School of Edinburgh 5148
Advocates Library 4967
Leighton Library 2372
Haddington Library 1331
Edinburgh University Library 464
Aberdeen Theological Library 357
Glasgow University Library 303
St Andrews University Library 292
Innerpeffray Library 225
Craigston Castle Library 71
Hunterian Museum Library 33
Dumfries Presbytery Library 29

Borrower title

Mr 19163
Reverend Mr 4743
Mrs 3870
Captain 2216
Miss 1582
Dr 1335
Lieutenant 852
Reverend 487
Lady 378
Major 230
Sir 222
Reverend Dr 216
Colonel 96
Sous Lieutenant 39
Professor 35
Corporal 34
Brigadier General 22
Staff Sergeant 20
Sous-Lieutenant 19
Honourable 16
Honourable Mrs 16
General 15
Midshipman 14
Adjudant Major 13
Right Honourable 13
Lord 11
Prof. 9
Madame 8
Lieutenant Colonel 6
Provost 5
Rev. 5
Principal 4
Mrs General 3
Ensign 2
Professor Sir 2
Rev. Mr 2
Baron 1
Bishop 1
Misses 1
Mrs Captain 1
Mrs Major 1

Borrower gender

Male 49567
Female 5987
Unknown 168
Unclear 10

Borrower occupation

Law 7791
Education 7592
School Child 5130
Advocate 4887
Independent Means 4634
Religion and Clergy 4340
Minister/Priest 4258
Military 3663
Church of Scotland 3525
Gentleman 2737
Writer/Procurator 2120
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 1899
Prisoner of War 1831
Politics/Office Holders 1706
Agricultural 1625
Medicine and Health 1547
Arts and Letters 1530
University Student 1394
Navy 1369
Sheriff 1304
Tenant 1188
Author 1118
Surgeon 1116
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 1114
Farmer 1044
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 1010
Miscellaneous 887
Wife/Spouse 877
Customs Collector 717
Merchants/Traders 555
University Professor 542
Army 438
Physician 419
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 401
Advocate Depute 380
Unknown denomination 353
MP (Britain) 351
Presbyterian Seceder 350
Tanner/Currier 345
Poet 331
School Master/Dominie 331
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 326
Writer to the Signet (WS) 304
Notaries/Clerks 267
Lord Provost/Provost 256
Teacher 240
Mariner 234
Service Provision and Hospitality 225
Banker 223
Dean of Faculty 221
Ships Owner 218
Surveyor 204
Barrister 195
Land Manager/Factor 186
Accountant 175
Tax Collector 169
Librarian 162
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 160
Print and Book Trade 156
Booksellers 149
Mason/Miller 141
Clerk of Session 132
Grocer 114
Bookbinder 102
Factor/Agent 90
Construction 82
Solicitor-General 74
Judge 73
Watchmaker 68
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 64
Lord Advocate 60
Officer 59
Retailer/Shopkeeper 56
Musician 53
Publishers 47
Architect 46
Lay Preacher 46
Baron of the Exchequer 43
Distiller 38
Brewer 37
Provost 28
Engineer 26
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 26
Victualler 22
Lord Justice Clerk 20
Shoemaker 18
Chaplain 17
Lord President 16
Baillie 15
Clerks 15
Tutor 14
Curator 13
Druggist/Chemist/Apothecary 12
Gardener 12
Episcopalian 11
Innkeeper/Tavernkeeper 11
Mill Owner 11
Builder 10
Widow 10
Dyer 9

Author

Sir Walter Scott 4370
William Fordyce Mavor 1213
Maria Edgeworth 827
Edward Gibbon 682
Robert Henry 618
James Fenimore Cooper 557
Jane Porter 542
Robert Burns 477
Washington Irving 466
Doctor Henry Hunter 460
Tobias George Smollett 441
Dr John Moore 427
William Robertson 422
Dr James Currie 405
David Brewster 401
Mrs Elizabeth Inchbald 397
David Hume 395
Elizabeth Hamilton 374
Mungo Park 372
Sir John Sinclair 358
Mary Brunton 326
Charlotte Turner Smith 313
William Russell 309
Captain Basil Hall 308
Hugh Blair 306
Ann Radcliffe 303
James Bruce 289
Robert Forsyth 285
Frances Burney 261
Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton 253
John Galt 250
Richard Cumberland 216
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy 208
James Hogg 203
Charles Rollin 200
Christian Isobel Johnstone 194
Thomas McCrie 193
Robert Southey 191
Thomas Campbell 190
George Gordon Byron Lord Byron 180
John Gibson Lockhart 179
James Boswell 178
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 177
Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan 166
Robert Chambers 163
William Coxe 163
Anne Grant of Laggan 157
William Paley 156
Mary Pilkington 155
Thomas Hamilton 153
Amelia Alderson Opie 152
George Campbell 152
Hannah More 151
Dr Samuel Johnson 144
Isaac Milner 144
Joseph Milner 144
William Cowper 143
Horatio Smith 139
Malcolm Laing 137
Edward Daniel Clarke 133
John Bell 133
Laurence Sterne 133
Thomas Colley Grattan 127
Eyre Evans Crowe 126
Benjamin Franklin 125
Bryan Edwards 125
Catherine Grace Frances Gore 123
Susan Ferrier 120
John Witherspoon 119
Robert Bisset 119
George Croly 117
Josiah Conder 113
Jane Austen 111
William Bingley 111
Reginald Heber 109
William Tennant 109
Dugald Stewart 108
Flavius Josephus 108
John Wilson 'Christopher North' 108
Sarah Harriet Burney 108
Thomas Moore 108
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 105
Henry Home Lord Kames 105
John Banim 104
Alexander von Humboldt 103
Henry Brooke 103
D.D. George Lawson 101
John Young 101
Madame Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël 100
Henry David Inglis 98
James Justinian Morier 98
James Thomson Minister at Quarrelwood 98
Marquis Antoine François Bertrand de Moleville 98
Thomas Mortimer 98
Benjamin Bell 96
James Macpherson 96
Joseph Hall 96
Louis Simond 96
Henry Mackenzie 95
John Knox 95

Book Work

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 2044
Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries [William Fordyce Mavor] 955
Edinburgh Review, or, Critical Journal 886
Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 682
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 622
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 618
Quarterly Review 599
Edinburgh Christian Instructor 583
Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 525
Works of Robert Burns 437
Scottish Chiefs, A Romance 369
History of England [David Hume] 363
British Theatre; or, a Collection of Plays ... acted at the Theatre Royal 358
Sacred Biography: or, The History of the Patriarchs from Adam to Abraham 356
Statistical Account of Scotland 308
Tales of my Landlord [First Series] 294
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797 290
Bible 289
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile [James Bruce] 282
Beauties of Scotland: Containing a ... Full Account of the Agriculture, Commerce, Mines, and Manufactures 279
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 251
Works of William Robertson 247
History of Modern Europe 240
Encyclopaedia Britannica 232
Zeluco 225
History of England [Tobias Smollett] 218
Popular Tales [Maria Edgeworth] 208
Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece 207
Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians 200
Monthly Review. A Periodical Work, Giving an Account ... of, and Extracts from, the New Books, Pamphlets, &c. 199
Ivanhoe; a Romance 195
Antiquary 186
Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French 186
Scots Magazine 185
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border 184
Guy Mannering; or, the Astrologer 178
Don Quixote 176
New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal 174
Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since 171
Anne of Geierstein; or, the Maiden of the Mist 165
Cottagers of Glenburnie 164
Abbot 157
British Tourists; or, Traveller's Pocket Companion through England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland 155
Lady of the Lake, a Poem 152
Rob Roy 149
Life of Samuel Johnson [James Boswell] 146
Thaddeus of Warsaw 146
History of the Church of Christ ... Revised and Corrected by Isaac Milner 144
Pirate 143
History of Scotland from the Union of the Crowns on the Accession of James VI to the Throne of England, to the Union of the Kingdoms in the Reign of Queen Anne 137
Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley 136
Works of Lord Byron 134
Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa 133
Works of Laurence Sterne 131
British Essayists 130
Coelebs in Search of a Wife 130
Tales of Fashionable Life 130
Tales of my Landlord [Third Series] 127
New Annual Register 126
History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies 125
History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus 123
Travels from St Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia 121
Monastery. A Romance 119
Works of John Witherspoon 119
Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett 117
Tales of a Grandfather [First Series] 117
Marmion; A Tale of Flodden Field 116
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 115
Tait's Edinburgh Magazine 114
Modern Traveller 112
Mysteries of Udolpho 110
Kenilworth, a Romance 109
Library of Entertaining Knowledge 109
Chronicles of the Canongate [Second Series: Saint Valentine's Day; or, The Fair Maid of Perth] 108
Works of Flavius Josephus 108
Works of Samuel Johnson 107
Fortunes of Nigel 104
Fool of Quality, or, The History of Henry Earl of Moreland 103
Pelham; or The Adventures of a Gentleman 102
Clan-Albin: A National Tale 101
Pleasures of Hope 101
Tales of my Landlord [Fourth Series] 101
Last of the Mohicans 100
Sermons on Various Practical Subjects [John Young] 100
Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle 99
Four Gospels, Translated from the Greek 99
History of America [William Robertson] 99
Lay of the Last Minstrel, a Poem 99
Letters from the Mountains 99
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark 99
Eclectic Review 98
Harrington, A Tale, and Ormond, A Tale 98
British Plutarch 97
Works of the British poets 97
Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testament 96
Poems of Ossian 96
Life of John Knox ... To which is Subjoined an Appendix Consisting of Letters 95
Memoirs of Marmontel, Written by Himself 93
Journal of a Soldier of the Seventy-First, or Glasgow Regiment Highland Light Infantry, from 1806 to 1815 92
Animal Biography; or, Authentic Anecdotes of the Lives, Manners and Economy, of the Animal Creation 91

Book language

English 54636
French 720
Latin 141
German 91
Greek 40
Italian 30
Spanish 9
Gaelic 7
Anglo-Saxon 3
Scots 3
Urdu 2
Arabic 1
Hebrew 1
Icelandic 1

Book place of publication

London 35739
Edinburgh 18870
Paris 569
Glasgow 537
Dublin 395
Perth 248
Liverpool 247
Bath 153
New York 147
Cambridge 120
Oxford 110
Paisley 91
Aberdeen 80
Kelso 71
Leith 71
Hawick 68
Philadelphia 65
Carlisle 60
Cupar-Fife 59
Leipzig 59
York 51
Dundee 50
Chichester 42
Berlin 37
Belfast 36
Bristol 35
Geneva 35
Kehl 34
Macclesfield 33
Montrose 25
Doncaster 22
Göttingen 20
Leeds 20
Birmingham 19
Inverness 18
London? 17
Newcastle 16
Stuttgart 14
Warrington 12
Amsterdam 11
Kincardine 11
Stockholm 11
Ayr 9
Boston 9
Newark 8
Gotha 7
Madrid 7
Calcutta 6
Dunfermline 6
Frankfurt am Main 6
Manchester 6
Padua 6
Strasbourg 6
Venice 6
Cork 5
Hamburg 5
Leiden 5
Naples 5
Norwich 5
Stockport 5
The Hague 5
i.e. Amsterdam? 5
Altenburg 4
Burlington 4
Edinburguh 4
Florence 4
Hafod 4
Lausanne 4
Milan 4
Pwllpeiran 4
Arbroath 3
Chiswick 3
Clipstone 3
Copenhagen 3
Gloucester 3
Jena 3
Kingston, Jamaica 3
Neuchâtel 3
Reading 3
Tübingen 3
Utrecht 3
Zweibrücken 3
Edinburgh? 2
Halle 2
Hanover 2
Hereford 2
Königsberg 2
Liverno 2
Montpellier 2
Nottingham 2
Sheffield 2
Shrewsbury 2
St Andrews 2
St Petersburg 2
Sudbury 2
Zurich 2
Berwick 1
Brentford 1
Breslau 1
Brunswick 1

Book format

8vo 29412
12mo 14770
4to 4736
18mo 1243
folio 576
16mo 203
14mo 1
24mo 1
score 1

Genre

Fiction 16440
Travel 8650
Periodicals 6940
History 6157
Lives 5012
Poetry 3373
Theology 3213
Belles Lettres 2068
Sermons 1770
Politics, Society and Political Economy 1736
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 1166
Natural Philosophy 1044
Reference Works 882
Philosophy and Morality 829
Drama 681
Education 414
Medicine 407
Law 357
Fine Arts 126
Mathematics 78
Miscellaneous/Other 10

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