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Library

Selkirk Library 2729
Royal High School of Edinburgh 1696
Westerkirk 1286
Leighton Library 974
Advocates Library 707
Orkney Library 345
Innerpeffray Library 216
Haddington Library 183
Wigtown Subscription Library 142
Chambers' Circulating Library 128
Aberdeen Theological Library 122
Edinburgh University Library 94
Glasgow University Library 30
Craigston Castle Library 28
St Andrews University Library 19
Hunterian Museum Library 7

Borrower title

Mr 2960
Reverend Mr 858
Lieutenant 223
Mrs 155
Captain 136
Miss 89
Dr 66
Sir 59
Reverend 56
Reverend Dr 47
Colonel 32
Corporal 14
Lady 11
Sous Lieutenant 9
Sous-Lieutenant 9
Right Honourable 8
Adjudant Major 6
Professor 5
Lieutenant Colonel 4
Major 4
Prof. 4
Brigadier General 3
Lord 3
Principal 2
Rev. 2
Bishop 1
Honourable 1
Honourable Mrs 1
Madame 1
Midshipman 1
Provost 1
Staff Sergeant 1

Borrower gender

Male 8408
Female 286
Unknown 10
Unclear 1

Borrower occupation

Education 2132
School Child 1689
Law 977
Advocate 681
Military 634
Religion and Clergy 630
Minister/Priest 619
Prisoner of War 559
Church of Scotland 494
Agricultural 452
Independent Means 384
Tenant 378
University Student 304
Farmer 296
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 237
Arts and Letters 234
Medicine and Health 226
Author 220
Surgeon 219
Writer/Procurator 198
Politics/Office Holders 165
Sheriff 154
Gentleman 147
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 140
MP (Britain) 102
Presbyterian Seceder 101
Notaries/Clerks 93
University Professor 86
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 76
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 57
Advocate Depute 50
Dean of Faculty 49
Tanner/Currier 47
Army 46
Construction 43
Merchants/Traders 43
School Master/Dominie 39
Mason/Miller 35
Architect 30
Barrister 30
Miscellaneous 30
Navy 30
Wife/Spouse 30
Teacher 27
Customs Collector 26
Clerk of Session 25
Writer to the Signet (WS) 25
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 22
Banker 21
Judge 19
Lord Advocate 18
Poet 18
Lord Provost/Provost 16
Service Provision and Hospitality 16
Factor/Agent 15
Mariner 15
Unknown denomination 14
Solicitor-General 13
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 13
Baillie 11
Clerks 11
Engineer 11
Accountant 10
Ships Owner 10
Brewer 9
Dyer 9
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 9
Surveyor 9
Lay Preacher 8
Mill Owner 7
Print and Book Trade 7
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 6
Booksellers 6
Grocer 6
Physician 6
Baron of the Exchequer 5
Chaplain 5
Land Manager/Factor 4
Officer 4
Publishers 4
Retailer/Shopkeeper 4
Tax Collector 4
Lord Justice Clerk 3
Lord President 3
Provost 3
Ships Captain 3
Tutor 3
Bookbinder 2
Builder 2
Episcopalian 2
Librarian 2
Privateer 2
Watchmaker 2
Curator 1
Distiller 1
Druggist/Chemist/Apothecary 1
Gardener 1
Printers 1
Shoemaker 1

Author

William Fordyce Mavor 968
Sir John Sinclair 308
Dr James Currie 236
Robert Burns 236
Hugh Blair 235
Mungo Park 223
Edward Gibbon 185
Dr John Moore 153
William Russell 152
Elizabeth Hamilton 130
Robert Henry 102
John Young 100
Marquis Antoine François Bertrand de Moleville 98
Joseph Hall 96
James Boswell 93
Laurence Sterne 87
Ann Radcliffe 85
Robert Bisset 83
Frances Burney 80
Mrs Anna Maria Bennett 79
Lodovico Ariosto 78
William Smellie 71
John Payne 68
Patrick Colquhoun 65
William Tooke 65
Mary Robinson 64
Elizabeth Hervey 61
Sarah Harriet Burney 60
William Dodd 60
Bryan Edwards 58
Charles Thompson Traveller 56
Malcolm Laing 56
William Hunter 56
Comte Jean-François de Galaup La Pérouse 55
Thomas Campbell 53
Robert McCulloch 51
Maria Edgeworth 48
Joanna Baillie 46
Benjamin Franklin 45
Helen Maria Williams 44
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 43
Robert Bage 42
Dugald Stewart 41
Samuel Jackson Pratt 41
Etienne François de Lantier 38
William Robertson 38
George Campbell 37
Thomas Scott 37
Mrs Elizabeth Inchbald 36
David Simpson 33
Edward Young 33
William Cowper 33
William Coxe 33
Robert Bloomfield 32
William Roberts 32
James Macpherson 31
John Palmer Jun. 31
Michael Symes 31
William Wilberforce 31
Robert Southey 30
Auguste Heinrich Julius Lafontaine 29
Adam Smith 28
Charles François Philibert Masson 27
Dr Samuel Johnson 27
Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan 27
Sophia Fortnum 27
Thomas Gisborne 27
Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall 26
D.D. John Erskine 25
George Vancouver 25
Baron Horatio Walpole 24
Doctor Henry Hunter 24
Johann Caspar Lavater 24
John Fell 24
Sir William Jones 24
Thomas Bugge 24
Susan Nicklin 23
Isaac Weld 20
William Godwin 20
Arrian of Nicomedia 19
John Owen 19
Royal College of Physicians of London 19
John Pinkerton 18
John Watkins 18
William Bingley 18
William Roscoe 18
Adam Ferguson 17
Donald Campbell 17
Jean-Baptiste Cant Hanet de Cléry 17
Johann Beckmann 17
Baron Jean-François Bourgoing 16
George Saville Carey 16
James Pettit Andrews 16
Sir David Dalrymple Lord Hailes 16
Jacques Saurin 15
John Robison 15
Louis-Sébastien Mercier 15
Thomas Somerville 15
Benjamin Thompson Count Rumford 14
James Denholm 14

Book Work

Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries [William Fordyce Mavor] 955
Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 497
Statistical Account of Scotland 308
Works of Robert Burns 236
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 235
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797 223
Encyclopaedia Britannica 222
Scots Magazine 185
History of Modern Europe 152
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 150
New Annual Register 126
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 102
Sermons on Various Practical Subjects [John Young] 100
Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testament 96
Life of Samuel Johnson [James Boswell] 93
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
Works of Laurence Sterne 87
Italian 85
Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China 80
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth 80
Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors 79
Orlando Furioso 78
Edward 77
Mordaunt 76
Bell's British Theatre 73
Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal 73
Philosophy of Natural History 71
New and Complete System of Universal Geography 68
Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah 67
View of the Russian Empire during the Reign of Catharine the Second 65
Angelina; A Novel 64
Farmer's Magazine (Edinburgh, Scotland) 64
Memoirs of Modern Philosophers 63
Clarentine: A Novel 60
Sisters; or, The History of Lucy & Caroline Sanson, Entrusted to a False Friend 60
History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies 58
Private Memoirs Relative to the Last Year of the Reign of Lewis the Sixteenth 57
Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis 57
Church of St Siffrid 56
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 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
Pleasures of Hope 53
Lectures on the Prophecies of Isaiah 51
Douglas; or, The Highlander 50
Anecdotes, Religious, Moral and Entertaining 47
Castle Rackrent, An Hibernian Tale 46
Plays on the Passions 46
Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin 45
Hermsprong; or, Man as He is Not 42
Studies of Nature 42
Tour in Switzerland 42
Annals of the French Revolution; or, A Chronological Account of its Principal Events 41
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind 41
Family Secrets, Literary and Domestic 41
History of America [William Robertson] 38
Travels of Antenor in Greece and Asia: from a Greek Manuscript found at Herculaneum 38
Sermons on Select Subjects [Thomas Scott] 37
Nature and Art 36
Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon 35
Life of Edmund Burke 33
Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole 33
Monthly Magazine and British Register 33
Plea for Religion, and the Sacred Writings 33
Poems [William Cowper] 33
Works of Edward Young 33
Farmer's Boy; A Rural Poem 32
Looker-on: A Periodical Paper 32
Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava 31
Haunted Cavern: A Caledonian Tale 31
Poems of Ossian 31
Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians 31
Parliamentary Register; or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons 30
Clara Duplessis, and Clairant: the History of a Family of French Emigrants 29
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 28
Lives of the English Poets 27
Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph 27
Secret Memoirs of the Court of Petersburg 27
Waldorf; or, the Dangers of Philosophy 27
Memoirs of the Courts of Berlin, Dresden, Warsaw, and Vienna, in the Years 1777, 1778, and 1779 26
Arabian Nights Entertainments 25
Discourses Preached on Several Occasions [John Erskine] 25
Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World 25
Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind 24
Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity 24
Letters Written during a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal 24
Travels in the French Republic 24
Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford 24
Works of Sir William Jones 24
Address to a Young Lady on Her Entrance into the World 23
Vaurien: or, Sketches of the Times 21
Lectures on Ecclesiastical History. To which is Added, an Essay on Christian Temperance and Self-Denial 20
Travels through the States of North America, and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, during the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797 20
Medical Transactions, Published by the College of Physicians in London 19
Travels into Different Parts of Europe, in the Years 1791 and 1792 19
Voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates 19
Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent 18
Peeper; A Collection of Essays, Moral, Biographical, and Literary 18
Tour round North Wales 18

Book language

English 8575
French 79
Latin 30
German 16
Greek 4
Italian 3
Icelandic 1
Spanish 1

Book place of publication

London 6668
Edinburgh 1645
Liverpool 225
Glasgow 212
New York 68
Bath 65
Paris 55
Dundee 45
Macclesfield 33
Bristol 30
Dublin 28
Montrose 25
Leipzig 19
Perth 17
Berlin 11
Göttingen 10
Newcastle 10
Cambridge 9
Stockport 5
The Hague 5
Calcutta 4
Cork 4
Amsterdam 3
Birmingham 3
Clipstone 3
Kingston, Jamaica 3
Lausanne 3
Neuchâtel 3
Philadelphia 3
York 3
Copenhagen 2
Halle 2
Hamburg 2
Hereford 2
Leiden 2
Oxford 2
St Andrews 2
Sudbury 2
Utrecht 2
Brentford 1
Canterbury 1
Derby 1
Edinburgh? 1
Frankfurt am Main 1
Madrid 1
Northumberland PA 1
Pisa 1
Salisbury 1
Siena 1
Verona 1
Züllichau 1

Book format

8vo 5134
12mo 1394
4to 1195
18mo 1000
16mo 33
folio 27

Genre

Travel 1841
Fiction 1338
Periodicals 1263
History 1032
Lives 764
Poetry 579
Sermons 578
Politics, Society and Political Economy 552
Natural Philosophy 295
Theology 286
Belles Lettres 278
Reference Works 233
Drama 141
Philosophy and Morality 118
Education 87
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 87
Law 63
Medicine 57
Fine Arts 18
Mathematics 13

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