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Library

Orkney Library 3324
Westerkirk 1433
Selkirk Library 1064
Wigtown Subscription Library 619
Advocates Library 604
Royal High School of Edinburgh 567
Leighton Library 472
Chambers' Circulating Library 210
Innerpeffray Library 108
Edinburgh University Library 69
St Andrews University Library 25
Hunterian Museum Library 15
Craigston Castle Library 13
Glasgow University Library 8
Dumfries Presbytery Library 5

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Mr 2937
Reverend Mr 1246
Captain 436
Mrs 324
Dr 318
Lieutenant 112
Miss 108
Reverend 75
Reverend Dr 49
Sir 34
Lady 24
Major 15
Corporal 9
Brigadier General 5
Colonel 5
Professor 5
Right Honourable 5
Sous Lieutenant 4
Sous-Lieutenant 4
Honourable Mrs 2
Mrs General 2
Madame 1
Midshipman 1
Mrs Captain 1
Professor Sir 1
Provost 1

Borrower gender

Male 8045
Female 473
Unknown 13
Unclear 4

Borrower occupation

Religion and Clergy 1085
Minister/Priest 1081
Law 996
Education 905
Church of Scotland 873
Independent Means 818
Advocate 613
Military 571
School Child 571
Gentleman 533
Navy 361
Medicine and Health 360
Politics/Office Holders 326
Writer/Procurator 290
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 287
Surgeon 233
Arts and Letters 227
Agricultural 215
Sheriff 180
Farmer 179
Author 173
Prisoner of War 170
University Student 170
Tenant 165
Unknown denomination 151
Customs Collector 138
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 135
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 126
Physician 125
Merchants/Traders 88
Tax Collector 78
School Master/Dominie 72
University Professor 72
Presbyterian Seceder 52
Mariner 51
Ships Owner 50
Advocate Depute 49
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 48
Notaries/Clerks 45
MP (Britain) 44
Army 42
Tanner/Currier 42
Miscellaneous 39
Wife/Spouse 39
Dean of Faculty 38
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 34
Lord Provost/Provost 33
Librarian 32
Barrister 28
Poet 28
Surveyor 28
Banker 23
Booksellers 21
Print and Book Trade 21
Clerk of Session 20
Land Manager/Factor 19
Teacher 19
Bookbinder 17
Construction 17
Factor/Agent 17
Mason/Miller 16
Writer to the Signet (WS) 16
Architect 13
Service Provision and Hospitality 13
Watchmaker 12
Judge 10
Accountant 9
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 9
Baillie 8
Clerks 8
Grocer 8
Solicitor-General 8
Baron of the Exchequer 6
Dyer 6
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 6
Distiller 5
Officer 5
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 4
Curator 4
Lord Advocate 4
Publishers 4
Engineer 3
Lay Preacher 3
Lord Justice Clerk 3
Chaplain 2
Druggist/Chemist/Apothecary 2
Lord President 2
Messenger-at-arms 2
Tutor 2
Builder 1
Mill Owner 1
Retailer/Shopkeeper 1
Ships Captain 1

Author

David Brewster 398
Jane Porter 391
Sir Walter Scott 306
James Bruce 171
Mary Brunton 153
William Robertson 153
William Russell 152
Isaac Milner 144
Joseph Milner 144
Maria Edgeworth 130
Tobias George Smollett 113
Edward Gibbon 112
John Knox 95
Thomas McCrie 95
Edward Daniel Clarke 84
Jane Austen 80
Claudius Buchanan 79
Henry Fielding 68
Robert Kerr 65
Dugald Stewart 58
James Hogg 57
Thomas Campbell 54
Benjamin Franklin 48
Sarah Harriet Burney 48
Joanna Baillie 46
George Cook 43
Adam Ferguson 42
Robert Foote Minister of Fettercairn 41
William Paley 38
Anna Seward 36
George Chalmers 36
Thomas Mortimer 36
Horace Walpole 33
Vicomte François-René de Chateaubriand 33
Robert Burns 32
Robert Southey 32
William Cowper 32
William Hayley 32
Edmund Burke 30
John Chetwode Eustace 30
John Graham Dalyell 29
Joseph Weber 29
Plutarch 29
Edward Nares 28
Alexander Ranken 27
Hector Macneill 26
Alexander von Humboldt 24
Baron Horatio Walpole 24
William Cobbett 23
Lucy Hutchinson 22
Robert Brown 22
Alexander Bower 19
Johann Caspar Lavater 19
Royal College of Physicians of London 19
Hugo Arnot 17
Philip Doddridge 17
James Scott Senior Minister of Perth 16
John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton 16
John Jamieson 16
James Playfair 15
Patrick Graham Minister of Aberfoyle 15
Anne Grant of Laggan 14
Barbara Hofland 14
Francis L, Clarke 14
George Low 14
Johann Lorenz Mosheim 14
George Gordon Byron Lord Byron 13
Gotthilf Theodor von Faber 13
John Malcolm 13
Sir Charles William Pasley 13
Alexander Henderson 12
Elizabeth Hamilton 12
James Beattie 12
Abū Ṭālib Khān 11
Alexander Brodie 11
Edward Blaquière 11
George Crabbe 11
James Macdonald 11
John Bigland 11
Samuel William Ryley 11
Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine 11
Emma De Lise 10
Margravine Wilhelmine Consort of Friedrich, Margrave of Bayreuth 10
S. Gener 10
William Aiton 10
Daniel Defoe 9
John Wilson 'Christopher North' 9
Thomas Clarkson 9
Beatrice Grant 8
Jean Froissart 8
Miss Margaret Holford 8
Samuel Horsley 8
Alexander Chalmers 7
Anthony Frederick Holstein 7
David Irving 7
Great Britain Board of Agriculture 7
Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia, consort of William V, Prince of Orange 7
Sir Robert Ker Porter 7
William Mitford 7
John Bernard Trotter 6

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
Scottish Chiefs, A Romance 369
Bible 289
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile [James Bruce] 171
Works of William Robertson 153
History of Modern Europe 152
Lady of the Lake, a Poem 150
History of the Church of Christ ... Revised and Corrected by Isaac Milner 144
Tales of Fashionable Life 130
New Annual Register 126
Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett 113
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
Self-Control: A Novel 86
Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa 84
Christian Researches in Asia; with Notices of the Translation of the Scriptures into the Oriental Languages 78
Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal 73
Self Control 67
Select Works of Henry Fielding 66
Pride and Prejudice: A Novel 64
General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels [Kerr] 63
Queen's Wake 57
Edinburgh Annual Register 56
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border 50
Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr Benjamin Franklin 48
Traits of Nature 48
Plays on the Passions 46
History of the Reformation in Scotland [George Cook] 43
Marmion; A Tale of Flodden Field 43
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind 41
Sermons [Robert Foote] 41
British Plutarch 36
Caledonia: or, An Account, Historical and Topographic, of North Britain 36
Letters of Anna Seward written between the Years 1784 and 1807 36
Castle of Otranto 33
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
Poems [Thomas Campbell] 32
Works of Robert Burns 32
Tour through Italy 30
Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke 30
Lay of the Last Minstrel, a Poem 29
Lives [Plutarch] 29
Memoirs of Maria Antoinetta, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of France and Navarre 29
Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea 29
Rokeby; a Poem 28
Thinks-I-to-Myself. A Serio-Ludicro, Tragico-Comico Tale, written by Think's-I-to-Myself, Who? 28
History of France [Alexander Ranken] 27
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry 25
Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect [Peter Forbes] 24
Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain 24
Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford 24
Life of Nelson 22
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson 22
Thaddeus of Warsaw 22
Treatise on Rural Affairs; Being the Substance of the Article Agriculture, Originally Published in the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 22
Scottish Adventurers, or, The Way to Rise; An Historical Tale 20
Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind 19
Life of Luther 19
Medical Transactions, Published by the College of Physicians in London 19
Collection and Abridgement of Celebrated Criminal Trials in Scotland 17
Remarkable Passages in the Life of the Honourable Colonel James Gardiner 17
Historical Account of the Ancient Culdees of Iona, and of their Settlements in Scotland, England, and Ireland 16
History of the Lives of the Protestant Reformers in Scotland 16
Journey through Albania and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia 16
Philosophical Essays [Dugald Stewart] 16
Sense and Sensibility: A Novel 16
Gertrude of Wyoming, and Other Poems 15
Sketches of Perthshire 15
System of Geography, Ancient and Modern 15
Ecclesiastical History [Johann Lorenz Mosheim] 14
Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland 14
Fauna Orcadensis 14
Iwanowna; or, the Maid of Moscow 14
Life of the Most Noble Arthur Marquis and Earl of Wellington 14
Asiatick Researches; or, Transactions of the Society, instituted in Bengal 13
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 13
Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions of the British Empire 13
Sketches of the Internal State of France 13
Account of the Life and Character of Alexander Adam 12
An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth 12
New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature 12
Sketch of the Political History of India: from the Introduction of Mr Pitt's Bill, A.D. 1784, to the Present Date 12
History of the Roman Government 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
Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan, in Asia, Africa, and Europe 11
Borough: A Poem 10
British Critic 10
Mémoires de Frédérique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse 10

Book language

English 8410
French 73
Latin 26
German 11
Greek 10
Italian 9
Icelandic 1
Spanish 1

Book place of publication

London 4921
Edinburgh 3755
Cambridge 69
Paris 59
Aberdeen 41
Belfast 36
Glasgow 24
Inverness 12
Leipzig 10
Ayr 9
Berlin 7
Leith 6
Dundee 5
Dunfermline 5
Edinburguh 4
Pwllpeiran 4
Bristol 3
Calcutta 3
Dublin 3
Göttingen 3
Milan 3
Philadelphia 3
Florence 2
Montpellier 2
Padua 2
Tübingen 2
Utrecht 2
Bath 1
Copenhagen 1
Cork 1
Frankfurt am Main 1
Hackney 1
Halle 1
Kidderminster 1
Königsberg 1
Leiden 1
Madrid 1
Oxford 1
Siena 1
Verona 1
Zierizee 1
Zurich 1

Book format

8vo 5061
12mo 921
4to 824
folio 406

Genre

Periodicals 3170
Theology 1196
Fiction 1181
History 707
Lives 609
Poetry 568
Travel 567
Reference Works 449
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 365
Belles Lettres 174
Philosophy and Morality 160
Politics, Society and Political Economy 94
Natural Philosophy 82
Drama 65
Sermons 63
Law 51
Medicine 27
Education 19
Fine Arts 6
Mathematics 5

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