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Library

Selkirk Library 4908
Westerkirk 3235
Royal High School of Edinburgh 2370
Leighton Library 1714
Advocates Library 1631
Orkney Library 633
Edinburgh University Library 461
Wigtown Subscription Library 390
Aberdeen Theological Library 357
Glasgow University Library 303
Innerpeffray Library 225
St Andrews University Library 194
Haddington Library 183
Chambers' Circulating Library 168
Craigston Castle Library 55
Dumfries Presbytery Library 14
Hunterian Museum Library 12

Borrower title

Mr 5513
Reverend Mr 1536
Lieutenant 392
Mrs 293
Captain 290
Miss 169
Dr 168
Sir 119
Reverend 85
Reverend Dr 70
Colonel 56
Sous Lieutenant 25
Corporal 22
Lady 15
Midshipman 13
Professor 13
Adjudant Major 11
Sous-Lieutenant 11
Brigadier General 10
Major 10
Prof. 9
Right Honourable 8
Lieutenant Colonel 5
Rev. 5
Principal 4
Lord 3
Ensign 2
Madame 2
Provost 2
Rev. Mr 2
Honourable 1
Honourable Mrs 1

Borrower gender

Male 16324
Female 516
Unknown 7
Unclear 1

Borrower occupation

Education 3878
School Child 2354
Law 2075
Advocate 1535
Military 1306
Religion and Clergy 1274
Minister/Priest 1235
Prisoner of War 1157
University Student 1137
Church of Scotland 1021
Agricultural 782
Independent Means 696
Tenant 643
Farmer 507
Arts and Letters 445
Author 407
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 396
Medicine and Health 382
Surgeon 371
Writer/Procurator 370
Sheriff 333
Politics/Office Holders 308
University Professor 307
Gentleman 300
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 220
MP (Britain) 202
Presbyterian Seceder 185
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 182
Notaries/Clerks 152
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 140
Dean of Faculty 119
School Master/Dominie 90
Army 87
Tanner/Currier 83
Advocate Depute 81
Navy 81
Merchants/Traders 72
Construction 69
Clerk of Session 55
Mason/Miller 53
Writer to the Signet (WS) 48
Architect 46
Miscellaneous 42
Barrister 41
Banker 39
Judge 39
Lord Advocate 39
Lay Preacher 35
Wife/Spouse 35
Customs Collector 34
Teacher 34
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 32
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 29
Poet 29
Factor/Agent 26
Lord Provost/Provost 26
Surveyor 25
Accountant 23
Mariner 22
Baron of the Exchequer 21
Engineer 19
Land Manager/Factor 18
Unknown denomination 17
Print and Book Trade 16
Service Provision and Hospitality 16
Solicitor-General 16
Baillie 15
Clerks 15
Lord President 14
Ships Owner 14
Tutor 14
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 13
Librarian 13
Chaplain 12
Tax Collector 12
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 11
Physician 10
Booksellers 9
Dyer 9
Curator 8
Printers 8
Brewer 7
Episcopalian 7
Mill Owner 7
Widow 7
Publishers 6
Grocer 5
Officer 5
Retailer/Shopkeeper 5
Builder 4
Distiller 4
Privateer 4
Ships Captain 4
Bookbinder 3
Lord Justice Clerk 3
Advocate’s Clerk 2
Elder 2
Gardener 2
Messenger-at-arms 2
Bishop 1

Author

William Fordyce Mavor 968
Robert Henry 577
Edward Gibbon 451
Doctor Henry Hunter 416
Dr John Moore 350
Charlotte Turner Smith 310
Sir John Sinclair 308
Ann Radcliffe 295
Hugh Blair 254
William Russell 249
Tobias George Smollett 244
Mungo Park 223
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy 208
Charles Rollin 200
James Boswell 164
William Coxe 156
David Hume 149
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 146
Richard Cumberland 141
John Bell 122
George Campbell 116
Flavius Josephus 106
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 105
Henry Home Lord Kames 104
Henry Brooke 103
William Robertson 103
John Young 101
James Bruce 98
Joseph Hall 96
Laurence Sterne 94
Robert Heron 93
William Dodd 90
Bryan Edwards 86
Donald Campbell 86
Benjamin Bell 84
Joseph Townsend 84
John Logan 82
Mrs Anna Maria Bennett 82
William Paley 81
Frances Burney 80
Royal Society of Edinburgh 80
Lodovico Ariosto 78
Mary Pilkington 78
Friedrich Trenck Freiherr von der 73
Samuel Jackson Pratt 73
Geoffrey Chaucer 71
William Smellie 71
Adam Smith 70
Bryce Johnston 69
John Payne 68
Elizabeth Hamilton 67
William Tooke 65
Mary Robinson 64
Elizabeth Hervey 61
Thomas Mortimer 61
Sarah Harriet Burney 60
James Macpherson 59
Marquis Antoine François Bertrand de Moleville 57
Charles Thompson Traveller 56
William Hunter 56
Comte Jean-François de Galaup La Pérouse 55
Thomas Gisborne 53
George Keate 52
Robert McCulloch 51
Vicesimus Knox 50
John Evans 49
Nathaniel Lardner 49
Johann Lorenz Mosheim 48
Louis-Pierre Anquetil 48
Baron Jean-François Bourgoing 47
François Le Vaillant 47
James Beattie 47
Joanna Baillie 46
Thomas Reid 46
Helen Maria Williams 45
James Thomson Minister at Quarrelwood 44
Johann Caspar Lavater 43
John Gillies 43
Dugald Stewart 42
Richard Watson Bishop of Llandaff 42
Robert Bage 42
Thomas Pennant 42
William Marshall 42
Mrs Elizabeth Inchbald 39
Etienne François de Lantier 38
Jakob von Staehlin 38
Joseph Towers 38
Archibald Alison 37
Reverend Augustus Toplady 37
Robert Burns 37
Thomas Scott 37
Voltaire 36
Frederick II King of Prussia 35
Oliver Goldsmith 35
Patrick Colquhoun 35
Joseph Moser 34
Comtesse Stéphanie Félicité Genlis 33
David Simpson 33
Edward Young 33
Bielby Porteus 32

Book Work

Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries [William Fordyce Mavor] 955
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 577
Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 522
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 416
Sacred Biography: or, The History of the Patriarchs from Adam to Abraham 356
Statistical Account of Scotland 308
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 235
Zeluco 225
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797 223
Encyclopaedia Britannica 222
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
Scots Magazine 185
History of England [Tobias Smollett] 180
History of Modern Europe 180
Don Quixote 146
History of England [David Hume] 137
Life of Samuel Johnson [James Boswell] 132
New Annual Register 126
Travels from St Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia 120
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 115
Mysteries of Udolpho 110
Works of Flavius Josephus 106
Fool of Quality, or, The History of Henry Earl of Moreland 103
Sermons on Various Practical Subjects [John Young] 100
Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle 99
Four Gospels, Translated from the Greek 99
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark 99
Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testament 96
Works of Laurence Sterne 92
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile [James Bruce] 91
Sketches of the History of Man 90
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies 86
Italian 85
System of Surgery [Benjamin Bell] 83
Romance of the Forest 82
Sermons [John Logan] 82
Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China 80
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth 80
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 80
Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors 79
Delia, a Pathetic and Interesting Tale 78
Ethelinde, or The Recluse of the Lake 78
Orlando Furioso 78
Edward 77
Elegant Epistles; or, A Copious Collection of Familiar and Amusing Letters 77
Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal 77
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
Bell's British Theatre 73
Life of Baron Frederic Trenck 73
Canterbury Tales 71
Philosophy of Natural History 71
Commentary on the Revelation of St John 69
History of Ancient Europe 69
Journey over Land to India 69
New and Complete System of Universal Geography 68
Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah 67
Henry [Richard Cumberland] 65
View of the Russian Empire during the Reign of Catharine the Second 65
Angelina; A Novel 64
British Plutarch 61
Clarentine: A Novel 60
Paul and Virginia 60
Sisters; or, The History of Lucy & Caroline Sanson, Entrusted to a False Friend 60
Poems of Ossian 59
Arundel 57
Private Memoirs Relative to the Last Year of the Reign of Lewis the Sixteenth 57
Banished Man. A Novel 56
Church of St Siffrid 56
Travels in the year 1792 through France, Turkey, and Hungary, to Vienna 56
Travels through Turkey in Asia, the Holy Land, Arabia, Egypt and Other Parts of the World 56
Voyage of La Pérouse round the World, in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, with the Nautical Tables 54
Account of the Pelew Islands 52
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 52
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
Works of Nathaniel Lardner 49
Ecclesiastical History, Antient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Present Century 48
Anecdotes, Religious, Moral and Entertaining 47
Essays on the Active Powers of Man 46
Memoirs of the Court of France, during the Reign of Lewis XIV. and the Regency of the Duke of Orleans 46
Plays on the Passions 46
Denial; or, The Happy Retreat 44
Desmond. A Novel 44
Studies of Nature 43
Travels from the Cape of Good-Hope, into the Interior Parts of Africa 43
Hermsprong; or, Man as He is Not 42
Journal during a Residence in France 42
Tour in Switzerland 42
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind 41
Family Secrets, Literary and Domestic 41
Medical Commentaries [Andrew Duncan] 41
History of Ancient Greece, its Colonies and Conquests 40
Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India 38
Memoirs of the Life and Reign of Frederick the Third, King of Prussia 38
Original Anecdotes of Peter the Great 38

Book language

English 16325
French 413
Latin 61
German 30
Italian 19
Greek 7
Scots 3
Spanish 2
Hebrew 1
Icelandic 1

Book place of publication

London 12857
Edinburgh 3154
Paris 300
Perth 247
Glasgow 184
Dublin 123
Oxford 80
New York 68
York 49
Geneva 34
Kehl 34
Macclesfield 33
Bristol 30
Cambridge 30
Leipzig 30
Montrose 25
Aberdeen 23
Berlin 20
Birmingham 19
Liverpool 19
Warrington 12
Göttingen 11
Amsterdam 10
Newcastle 10
Stockholm 10
Bath 9
Boston 9
Paisley 9
Venice 6
Leiden 5
Naples 5
Norwich 5
Stockport 5
Strasbourg 5
The Hague 5
i.e. Amsterdam? 5
Burlington 4
Calcutta 4
Cork 4
Lausanne 4
Madrid 4
Philadelphia 4
Clipstone 3
Frankfurt am Main 3
Kingston, Jamaica 3
Neuchâtel 3
Newark 3
Reading 3
Zweibrücken 3
Altenburg 2
Gotha 2
Hamburg 2
Hereford 2
Jena 2
Liverno 2
Shrewsbury 2
St Andrews 2
Sudbury 2
Utrecht 2
Berwick 1
Brentford 1
Canterbury 1
Carlisle 1
Copenhagen 1
Derby 1
Dresden 1
Edinburgh? 1
Gloucester 1
Greifswald 1
Halle 1
London? 1
Lynn 1
Manchester 1
Northumberland PA 1
Pisa 1
Prague 1
Rome 1
Salisbury 1
Sherborne 1
Siena 1
Turin 1
Verona 1
Zurich 1
Züllichau 1
i.e. Paris? 1

Book format

8vo 9552
12mo 3662
4to 2605
18mo 978
folio 99
16mo 34
14mo 1
score 1

Genre

Travel 3264
Fiction 3086
History 2896
Periodicals 1654
Sermons 1270
Theology 1166
Lives 887
Politics, Society and Political Economy 759
Belles Lettres 639
Poetry 611
Natural Philosophy 521
Philosophy and Morality 375
Reference Works 252
Medicine 232
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 200
Education 185
Drama 164
Law 141
Fine Arts 49
Mathematics 19

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