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Library

Royal High School of Edinburgh 1958
Selkirk Library 1824
Advocates Library 1368
St Andrews University Library 1107
Orkney Library 1105
Glasgow University Library 850
Haddington Library 745
Westerkirk 700
Leighton Library 542
Chambers' Circulating Library 506
Wigtown Subscription Library 487
Edinburgh University Library 300
Dumfries Presbytery Library 286
Innerpeffray Library 266
Craigston Castle Library 95
Aberdeen Theological Library 73
Hunterian Museum Library 24
Inverness Kirk Sessions Library 1

Borrower title

Mr 3419
Reverend Mr 603
Mrs 352
Captain 291
Dr 171
Miss 151
Lieutenant 137
Reverend 92
Sir 73
Professor 57
Reverend Dr 47
Lady 41
Corporal 19
Colonel 16
Major 16
Principal 13
Brigadier General 10
Sous Lieutenant 8
Adjudant Major 6
Bishop 5
Staff Sergeant 5
Ms 4
Rev. 4
Sous-Lieutenant 4
Honourable 2
General 1
Honourable Mrs 1
Professor Sir 1
Provost 1
Right Honourable 1

Borrower gender

Male 11623
Female 573
Unknown 34
Unclear 1

Borrower occupation

Education 4509
School Child 1936
University Student 1934
Law 1634
Advocate 1323
Religion and Clergy 1192
Minister/Priest 1150
Church of Scotland 1039
University Professor 626
Military 620
Independent Means 519
Prisoner of War 437
Arts and Letters 407
Agricultural 387
Tenant 331
Sheriff 292
Author 271
Gentleman 261
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 258
Farmer 233
Politics/Office Holders 218
Medicine and Health 192
Writer/Procurator 192
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 184
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 178
Surgeon 160
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 156
Navy 126
MP (Britain) 108
Merchants/Traders 105
Poet 97
Teacher 84
Dean of Faculty 72
School Master/Dominie 70
Service Provision and Hospitality 68
Miscellaneous 67
Writer to the Signet (WS) 64
Advocate Depute 62
Chaplain 60
Wife/Spouse 60
Customs Collector 59
Presbyterian Seceder 58
Army 54
Tanner/Currier 54
Notaries/Clerks 52
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 50
Librarian 45
Clerk of Session 44
Barrister 42
Lord Advocate 39
Judge 38
Brewer 31
Physician 31
Banker 25
Accountant 24
Print and Book Trade 23
Grocer 20
Lay Preacher 20
Lord President 20
Episcopalian 19
Retailer/Shopkeeper 19
Solicitor-General 19
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 18
Construction 18
Baron of the Exchequer 17
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 17
Unknown denomination 17
Engineer 16
Land Manager/Factor 16
Lord Provost/Provost 16
Mariner 16
Provost 16
Tax Collector 16
Booksellers 15
Domestic Service 15
Indoor Servants 15
Bookbinder 14
Curator 14
Ships Owner 14
Officer 13
Watchmaker 13
Mason/Miller 12
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 12
Factor/Agent 11
Clerks 10
Dyer 10
Advocate’s Clerk 9
Surveyor 9
Printers 8
Innkeeper/Tavernkeeper 7
Widow 7
Mill Owner 6
Victualler 6
Clerk 5
Tutor 4
Glover 3
Lord Justice Clerk 3
Musician 3
Shoemaker 3
Architect 2

Author

Plutarch 1151
John Campbell 443
Dr James Currie 405
Robert Burns 405
Pierre Mathurin de L'Ecluse des Loges 391
Patrick Abercromby 302
Thomas Mortimer 279
James Boswell 229
Gilbert Burnet 221
Sir Walter Scott 190
Thomas McCrie 172
Dr Samuel Johnson 170
Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield 149
George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton 141
Conyers Middleton 127
Washington Irving 123
Sir William Temple 122
Tobias George Smollett 117
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 111
Archibald Bower 100
Anne Grant of Laggan 99
John Knox 95
Jean-François Marmontel 93
Captain Thomas Pococke 92
William Melmoth 91
Marcus Tullius Cicero 88
Pierre Bayle 83
Thomas Stanley 82
William Hayley 82
Robert Southey 80
William Cowper 78
Benjamin Franklin 77
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 75
Friedrich Trenck Freiherr von der 73
George Mackenzie 69
David Irving 68
Edmund Ludlow 68
Walter Harte 66
Maximilien Bethune Duc de Sully 65
Dieudonné Thiébault 61
Marcus Aurelius Emperor of Rome 61
Edward Gibbon 59
John Marshall 58
Julius Caesar 58
Thomas Newton Bishop of Bristol 58
Marquis Antoine François Bertrand de Moleville 57
William Roscoe 56
Elizabeth Hamilton 55
Pliny the Younger 54
Anna Seward 52
John Gibson Lockhart 52
Robert Chambers 52
Suetonius 52
David Ramsay 50
Giovanni Paolo Marana 49
John Galt 48
William Harris 48
Xenophon of Athens 48
Georgette Ducrest 45
Cardinal Jean François Paul de Gondi de Retz 44
Eugène François Vidocq 43
Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon 41
Marquise Marie-Louise-Victoire La Rochejaquelein 40
Philip Doddridge 39
Chevalier Andrew Michael Ramsay 38
Jakob von Staehlin 38
John Thomas Smith 38
Joseph Towers 38
William Coxe 38
Diogenes Laertius 37
James Anderson 37
John Lambert 37
Pope Clement XIV 37
William Wallace 37
Dugald Stewart 36
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Prince de Bénévent 35
David Mallet 35
Frederick II King of Prussia 35
Sir James Melville 35
Robert Bisset 33
Baron Edward Herbert of Cherbury 32
Robert Drury 32
Henry Glassford Bell 31
Richard Cumberland 31
Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall 31
Lucy Aikin 30
Reginald Heber 30
Thomas Lediard 30
Vicomte Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne Turenne 30
Alexander Gordon 29
John Miller 29
Joseph Weber 29
Amelia Heber 28
Colley Cibber 28
David Hume 28
Hester Lynch Piozzi 28
Michael Russell 28
Mrs Anna Jameson 28
Charles François Philibert Masson 27
John Hill 27

Book Work

Lives [Plutarch] 821
Works of Robert Burns 405
Lives of the Admirals and Other Eminent British Seamen 403
Memoirs of Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully 391
Martial Atchievements of the Scots Nation 302
British Plutarch 277
Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French 186
Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time 179
Life of Samuel Johnson [James Boswell] 146
Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope 135
Biographia Britannica: or, the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons who have Flourished in Great Britain and Ireland 127
History of the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero 127
History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus 123
Lives of the English Poets 117
Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett 117
Works of Sir William Temple 112
History of the Popes, from the Foundation of the See of Rome, to the Present Time 100
Letters from the Mountains 99
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
History of the Life of King Henry the Second 91
Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli 83
History of Philosophy [Thomas Stanley] 82
Life and Posthumous Writings [chiefly Letters] of William Cowper 74
Life of Baron Frederic Trenck 73
Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin 73
Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Writers of the Scots Nation 69
Life of Nelson 68
Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow Esq 68
Historical and Critical Dictionary 67
History of the Life of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden 66
Lives of the Most Eminent British Naval Heroes 64
Memoirs of the Empress Josephine 62
Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 61
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius 61
Original Anecdotes of Frederick the Second, King of Prussia 61
Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon 59
Works of the Right Reverend Thomas Newton 58
Life of George Washington [John Marshall] 57
Private Memoirs Relative to the Last Year of the Reign of Lewis the Sixteenth 57
Letters of Sir Thomas Fitzosborne, on Several Subjects 54
Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the Great 53
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte 52
Memoirs of the Life of Agrippina, the Wife of Germanicus 52
Life of George Washington 50
Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 50
Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy 49
Masquerades; or, What You Will 46
Works of George Lord Lyttelton 45
Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz 44
Memorable Things of Socrates 44
Memoirs of Vidocq, Principal Agent of the French Police until 1827 43
Epistles of Pliny the Younger 42
Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon 41
Life of Andrew Melville 40
Lives of the British Admirals: Containing a New and Accurate Naval History 40
Memoirs of the Marchioness de la Rochejaquelein 40
Remarkable Passages in the Life of the Honourable Colonel James Gardiner 39
History of Henri de La Tour D'Auvergne, Viscount de Turenne, Marshal-General of France 38
Lives of Illustrious & Distinguished Scotsmen 38
Memoirs of the Life and Reign of Frederick the Third, King of Prussia 38
Nollekens and His Times, Comprehending a Life of that Sculptor and Memoirs of Several Artists 38
Original Anecdotes of Peter the Great 38
Collections Relating to the History of Mary Queen of Scotland 37
History of the Life and Reign of George the Fourth 37
Interesting Letters of Pope Clement XIV 37
Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero to Several of his Friends: with Remarks by William Melmoth 37
Life of John Knox 37
Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent 37
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of George Buchanan 37
Travels through Canada, and the United States of North America, in the years 1806, 1807, & 1808 37
De Vita et Moribus Philosophorum 36
History of Napoleon Bonaparte 36
Letters of Anna Seward written between the Years 1784 and 1807 36
Memoirs of Charles Maurice Talleyrand de Périgord 35
Memoirs of Sir James Melville 35
Posthumous Works of Frederick II King of Prussia 35
Life of Edmund Burke 33
Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole 33
Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar 32
Lives of the Scotish Poets 31
Twelve Caesars 31
Life of John, Duke of Marlborough, Prince of the Roman Empire 30
Memoirs of Richard Cumberland 30
Military Memoirs and Maxims of Marshal Turenne 30
History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia 29
Life of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Written by Himself 29
Memoirs of General Miller, in the Service of the Republic of Peru 29
Memoirs of Maria Antoinetta, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of France and Navarre 29
Life of Oliver Cromwell 28
Life of Reginald Heber ... With Selections from his Correspondence 28
Loves of the Poets 28
Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. During the Last Twenty Years of His Life 27
Life of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England 27
Life of Lord Byron 27
Secret Memoirs of the Court of Petersburg 27
Account of the Life and Writings of William Robertson 26
Memoirs of the Courts of Berlin, Dresden, Warsaw, and Vienna, in the Years 1777, 1778, and 1779 26
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson 26

Book language

English 11157
Latin 436
French 317
Greek 79
Italian 28
German 7
Spanish 2
Icelandic 1

Book place of publication

London 7869
Edinburgh 2451
Liverpool 270
Glasgow 185
Paris 163
Leiden 100
Amsterdam 97
Oxford 83
Perth 76
Leith 64
Dublin 62
Bath 56
Dundee 45
Chichester 42
Belfast 36
The Hague 32
York 31
Aberdeen 30
Geneva 24
Venice 23
Frankfurt am Main 21
Utrecht 18
Basel 16
Antwerp 15
Newcastle 15
Delft 14
Leipzig 13
Vevey 13
Kincardine 11
Rotterdam 10
Birmingham 8
Lyon 8
Rome 8
Cambridge 7
Lauingen 7
Strawberry Hill 7
Bologna 6
Berlin 5
i.e. Amsterdam? 5
Hamburg 4
Milan 4
Twickenham 4
Edinburgh? 3
Franecker 3
Bristol 2
Brussels 2
Chiswick 2
Cologne 2
Copenhagen 2
Hafod 2
Heidelberg 2
Lille 2
Livorno 2
Liège 2
Manchester 2
Netherlands 2
Nuremberg 2
Philadelphia 2
Rouen 2
Salisbury 2
Wesel 2
Zurich 2
Amsterdam? 1
Bern 1
Brescia 1
Burgos 1
Caen 1
Chambéry 1
Copenhagen? 1
Dresden 1
Exeter 1
Florence 1
Göttingen 1
Halle 1
Holland 1
Ingolstadt 1
Ironbridge 1
Kehl 1
Königsberg 1
Leeds 1
Lynn 1
Madrid 1
Pisa 1
Sunderland 1
Tübingen 1
Udine 1
Warsaw 1
Weimar 1
unknown 1

Book format

8vo 6868
12mo 2180
4to 1268
folio 939
18mo 75
16mo 19
24mo 2

Genre

Lives 12237
History 1701
Belles Lettres 572
Poetry 529
Travel 314
Fiction 268
Theology 201
Politics, Society and Political Economy 195
Philosophy and Morality 193
Law 75
Reference Works 42
Fine Arts 30
Sermons 18
Education 16
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 15
Periodicals 14
Drama 10
Medicine 8
Natural Philosophy 6

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