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Library

Orkney Library 3431
Westerkirk 1734
Selkirk Library 1625
Wigtown Subscription Library 705
Royal High School of Edinburgh 681
Advocates Library 631
Leighton Library 536
Chambers' Circulating Library 271
Haddington Library 270
Innerpeffray Library 108
Edinburgh University Library 71
St Andrews University Library 22
Glasgow University Library 18
Craigston Castle Library 14
Hunterian Museum Library 13
Dumfries Presbytery Library 6

Borrower title

Mr 3444
Reverend Mr 1272
Captain 559
Mrs 373
Dr 337
Miss 146
Lieutenant 133
Reverend 88
Reverend Dr 39
Sir 33
Lady 22
Major 21
Corporal 10
Brigadier General 8
Sous Lieutenant 8
Colonel 5
Professor 5
Right Honourable 5
Sous-Lieutenant 5
Adjudant Major 2
Honourable Mrs 2
Mrs General 2
Provost 2
Honourable 1
Lieutenant Colonel 1
Lord 1
Madame 1
Midshipman 1

Borrower gender

Male 9545
Female 567
Unknown 26
Unclear 4

Borrower occupation

Religion and Clergy 1124
Law 1115
Minister/Priest 1112
Education 1036
Independent Means 966
Church of Scotland 911
Military 778
School Child 683
Advocate 634
Gentleman 630
Navy 429
Medicine and Health 389
Writer/Procurator 356
Agricultural 350
Politics/Office Holders 348
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 337
Prisoner of War 305
Arts and Letters 290
Farmer 280
Tenant 259
Surgeon 247
Author 228
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 206
Sheriff 201
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 178
University Student 172
Customs Collector 148
Physician 140
Merchants/Traders 128
Unknown denomination 120
School Master/Dominie 85
Tax Collector 74
Presbyterian Seceder 73
University Professor 70
Tanner/Currier 64
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 60
Notaries/Clerks 57
Advocate Depute 53
MP (Britain) 49
Army 48
Miscellaneous 46
Lord Provost/Provost 45
Wife/Spouse 45
Dean of Faculty 37
Librarian 35
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 35
Mariner 35
Ships Owner 34
Barrister 33
Mason/Miller 30
Banker 29
Poet 28
Surveyor 27
Teacher 27
Land Manager/Factor 23
Print and Book Trade 23
Service Provision and Hospitality 23
Booksellers 22
Writer to the Signet (WS) 22
Factor/Agent 21
Construction 20
Bookbinder 19
Clerk of Session 18
Watchmaker 16
Accountant 14
Architect 13
Solicitor-General 12
Retailer/Shopkeeper 11
Grocer 10
Judge 10
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 10
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 9
Baillie 8
Clerks 8
Distiller 7
Provost 7
Dyer 6
Engineer 6
Shoemaker 6
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 5
Chaplain 5
Gardener 5
Officer 5
Curator 4
Innkeeper/Tavernkeeper 4
Lay Preacher 4
Lord Advocate 4
Lord Justice Clerk 3
Mill Owner 3
Musician 3
Painter/Limner 3
Publishers 3
Baron of the Exchequer 2
Brewer 2
Druggist/Chemist/Apothecary 2
Lord President 2
Messenger-at-arms 2
Trade of Slave-Produced Commodities 2
Tutor 2
Builder 1

Author

David Brewster 397
Sir Walter Scott 383
Jane Porter 369
Maria Edgeworth 365
Mrs Elizabeth Inchbald 358
Robert Forsyth 279
Elizabeth Hamilton 168
William Fordyce Mavor 160
William Russell 152
Isaac Milner 144
Joseph Milner 144
Hannah More 130
Tobias George Smollett 118
Mary Brunton 107
Madame Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël 78
Frances Burney 75
Robert Kerr 66
Claudius Buchanan 63
Dugald Stewart 58
James Thomson Minister at Quarrelwood 54
William Tennant 51
Anne Grant of Laggan 50
D.D. George Lawson 50
David Ramsay 50
Richard Cumberland 50
Benjamin Franklin 48
James Carrick Moore 46
Joanna Baillie 46
George Cook 44
James Brewster 43
Jean-François Marmontel 42
Robert Southey 42
Thomas Clarkson 42
Robert Foote Minister of Fettercairn 41
Henry Mackenzie 39
James Hogg 37
John Gillies 37
Thomas Shaw 37
Anna Seward 36
Bryan Edwards 36
George Chalmers 36
Thomas Mortimer 36
David Irving 34
Horace Walpole 33
Thomas Campbell 33
John Harriott 32
John Hawkesworth 32
James Grahame 31
John Jamieson 31
William Rutherford 31
Arthur Edmondston 30
Edmund Burke 30
Joseph Weber 29
Plutarch 29
Carlo de Salvo 28
Edward Nares 28
Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan 28
Alexander Ranken 27
Thomas MacGill 27
Edward Daniel Clarke 26
Thomas Robert Malthus 26
Alexander von Humboldt 25
Baron Horatio Walpole 24
George Crabbe 24
William Cobbett 23
Lucy Hutchinson 22
Robert Brown 22
John Richard Green 21
Sophie Cottin 21
Joseph Strutt 20
David Hume 19
Johann Caspar Lavater 19
Royal College of Physicians of London 19
Thomas Edward Ritchie 19
William Keir 19
Lewis Goldsmith Stewarton 18
Patrick Graham Minister of Aberfoyle 18
Thomas Browne 18
Allan Ramsay 17
Philip Doddridge 17
James Scott Senior Minister of Perth 16
Jane Austen 16
Robert Leighton 16
Elizabeth Carter 15
George Campbell 15
Hannah Neale 15
James Playfair 15
Daniel Defoe 14
Johann Lorenz Mosheim 14
Comte Alexandre Laborde 13
Gotthilf Theodor von Faber 13
Sir Charles William Pasley 13
Alexander Fraser Tytler Lord Woodhouselee 12
Alexander Henderson 12
John Malcolm 12
Robert Semple 12
Abū Ṭālib Khān 11
Alexander Brodie 11
Edward Mangin 11
James Macdonald 11

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 498
Scottish Chiefs, A Romance 369
British Theatre; or, a Collection of Plays ... acted at the Theatre Royal 358
Beauties of Scotland: Containing a ... Full Account of the Agriculture, Commerce, Mines, and Manufactures 279
Popular Tales [Maria Edgeworth] 180
Cottagers of Glenburnie 164
British Tourists; or, Traveller's Pocket Companion through England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland 155
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
Coelebs in Search of a Wife 130
Tales of Fashionable Life 130
British Essayists 129
New Annual Register 126
Marmion; A Tale of Flodden Field 116
Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett 113
Eclectic Review 98
Works of the British poets 97
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal 73
Self Control 67
Lives of the Most Eminent British Naval Heroes 64
Christian Researches in Asia; with Notices of the Translation of the Scriptures into the Oriental Languages 63
General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels [Kerr] 63
Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress 61
Edinburgh Annual Register 56
Moral Tales for Young People 55
Corinna, or, Italy 54
Theological Discourses on Important Subjects, Doctrinal and Practical 54
Indian Recreations 51
Lectures on the History of Joseph 50
Life of George Washington 50
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border 50
Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr Benjamin Franklin 48
Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in Spain, Commanded by Sir John Moore 46
Plays on the Passions 46
John De Lancaster. A Novel 44
History of the Reformation in Scotland [George Cook] 43
Lectures upon Our Lord's Sermon on the Mount 43
Memoirs of Marmontel, Written by Himself 42
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind 41
History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament 41
Sermons [Robert Foote] 41
Self-Control: A Novel 40
History of Ancient Greece, its Colonies and Conquests 37
Travels, or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant 37
British Plutarch 36
Caledonia: or, An Account, Historical and Topographic, of North Britain 36
History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies 36
Letters of Anna Seward written between the Years 1784 and 1807 36
Memoirs of an American Lady 36
Castle of Otranto 33
Monthly Magazine and British Register 33
Account of the Voyages undertaken by the Order of His present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere 32
Letters from England 32
Poems [Thomas Campbell] 32
Struggles through Life, Exemplified in the Various Travels and Adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, & America, of John Harriott 32
View of Antient History 31
View of the Ancient and Present State of the Zetland Islands 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
Mountain Bard 29
The Works of Henry Mackenzie 29
Thinks-I-to-Myself. A Serio-Ludicro, Tragico-Comico Tale, written by Think's-I-to-Myself, Who? 28
Travels in the Year 1806, from Italy to England 28
History of France [Alexander Ranken] 27
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of George Buchanan 27
Travels in Turkey, Italy and Russia, during the Years 1803-1806 27
Essay on the Principle of Population 26
Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine 26
Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa 26
Delphine 24
Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain 24
Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford 24
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson 22
Treatise on Rural Affairs; Being the Substance of the Article Agriculture, Originally Published in the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 22
Elizabeth; or, the Exiles of Siberia 21
History of the Political Life of William Pitt 21
Queenhoo-Hall, A Romance 20
Account of the Life and Writings of David Hume 19
Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind 19
Medical Transactions, Published by the College of Physicians in London 19
Summons of Wakening 19
British Cicero; or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches in the English Language 18
Essay on the Authenticity of the Poems of Ossian 18
Poems [James Grahame] 18
The Female Revolutionary Plutarch 18
Gentle Shepherd 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
Novice of Saint Dominick 16
Philosophical Essays [Dugald Stewart] 16
Sense and Sensibility: A Novel 16

Book language

English 9989
French 92
Latin 33
German 13
Greek 9
Italian 9
Gaelic 7
Icelandic 1
Spanish 1

Book place of publication

London 5814
Edinburgh 4233
Paris 87
Cambridge 69
Leith 67
Paisley 55
Aberdeen 42
Hawick 38
Belfast 36
Bath 11
Göttingen 11
Leipzig 10
Ayr 9
Inverness 9
Dublin 7
Philadelphia 7
Glasgow 6
Newark 5
Berlin 4
Chichester 4
Hafod 4
Pwllpeiran 4
Calcutta 3
Milan 3
Utrecht 3
Amsterdam 2
Florence 2
Gloucester 2
Hamburg 2
Padua 2
Tübingen 2
Bristol 1
Copenhagen 1
Cork 1
Frankfurt am Main 1
Göttingen 1
Halle 1
Hanover 1
Königsberg 1
Leiden 1
Madrid 1
Oxford 1
Pittsburgh 1
Siena 1
Sunderland 1
Verona 1
Zurich 1

Book format

8vo 5543
12mo 2048
4to 613
folio 411
16mo 20

Genre

Periodicals 3194
Fiction 1798
Theology 1010
Travel 887
Poetry 713
Lives 684
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 661
History 626
Reference Works 463
Drama 432
Belles Lettres 382
Philosophy and Morality 198
Politics, Society and Political Economy 179
Sermons 130
Natural Philosophy 100
Education 60
Law 41
Medicine 35
Fine Arts 7
Mathematics 5

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