Filters

Year borrowed

Press on a bar to view borrowings in the decade.Full

Library

Edinburgh University Library 2316
St Andrews University Library 1712
Glasgow University Library 1477
Selkirk Library 882
Royal High School of Edinburgh 871
Innerpeffray Library 779
Advocates Library 642
Leighton Library 635
Westerkirk 446
Haddington Library 322
Aberdeen Theological Library 285
Dumfries Presbytery Library 181
Wigtown Subscription Library 141
Craigston Castle Library 90
Hunterian Museum Library 27
Orkney Library 11
Chambers' Circulating Library 4
Inverness Kirk Sessions Library 2

Borrower title

Mr 1452
Reverend Mr 487
Dr 159
Reverend 103
Lieutenant 98
Captain 70
Sir 57
Mrs 56
Professor 52
Miss 31
Principal 22
Reverend Dr 12
Sous Lieutenant 10
Major 9
Colonel 8
Lady 8
Corporal 5
Sous-Lieutenant 4
Rev Mr 3
Prof. 2
Rev. 2
Bishop 1
Midshipman 1
Provost 1
Rev. Mr 1
Right Honourable 1

Borrower gender

Male 10657
Female 125
Unknown 27
Unclear 3

Borrower occupation

Education 6735
University Student 5035
University Professor 1060
Religion and Clergy 1035
Minister/Priest 996
Church of Scotland 887
School Child 852
Law 732
Advocate 634
Military 295
Prisoner of War 265
Arts and Letters 219
Medicine and Health 178
Author 171
Sheriff 154
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 148
Surgeon 141
Independent Means 132
Agricultural 114
Politics/Office Holders 108
Chaplain 102
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 94
Tenant 87
Presbyterian Seceder 80
Farmer 74
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 73
Dean of Faculty 73
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 69
Print and Book Trade 69
Printers 69
Writer/Procurator 66
MP (Britain) 59
School Master/Dominie 57
Merchants/Traders 55
Physician 39
Gentleman 38
Librarian 30
Miscellaneous 28
Notaries/Clerks 27
Customs Collector 26
Lord Advocate 26
Advocate Depute 22
Domestic Service 22
Indoor Servants 22
Judge 22
Lord President 22
Army 21
Clerk of Session 21
Teacher 21
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 20
Dyer 19
Lay Preacher 18
Writer to the Signet (WS) 17
Curator 15
Service Provision and Hospitality 15
Widow 15
Clerks 13
Retailer/Shopkeeper 13
Wife/Spouse 13
Mason/Miller 11
Tanner/Currier 11
Episcopalian 10
Provost 10
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 10
Baillie 9
Banker 9
Factor/Agent 9
Lord Provost/Provost 9
Advocate’s Clerk 8
Baron of the Exchequer 8
Clerk 8
Poet 8
Brewer 7
Construction 7
Officer 7
Barrister 6
Grocer 6
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 6
Solicitor-General 6
Engineer 5
Land Manager/Factor 5
Navy 4
Accountant 3
Gardener 3
Architect 2
Bishop 2
Innkeeper/Tavernkeeper 2
Lord Justice Clerk 2
Smiths/Metal Workers 2
Surveyor 2
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 1
Glover 1
Mariner 1
Messenger-at-arms 1
Painter/Limner 1
Privateer 1
Publishers 1
Secretary of State 1

Author

William Guthrie 323
David Hume 262
Nathaniel Hooke 256
Henry Fielding 218
Johann Lorenz Mosheim 214
Dr Samuel Johnson 180
Thomas Reid 179
Henry Brooke 174
Charles de Brosses 172
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon 170
John Leland 149
Sir John Pringle 148
Robert Walker 144
Thomas Stackhouse 144
Jean-François Marmontel 143
William Gurnall 139
William Shakespeare 122
Baron Albrecht von Haller 119
Jean le Rond d' Alembert 118
Edinburgh Philosophical Society 116
William Smellie 108
John Hawkesworth 105
Joseph Warton 105
Pierre Joseph Macquer 105
Richard Bathurst 105
Royal Society (Great Britain) 103
Denis Diderot 95
Voltaire 94
Robert Whytt 87
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (France) 83
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 83
Donald Monro 80
David Macbride 77
Joseph Priestley 75
Jeremiah Seed 73
John Gregory 71
Archibald Bower 70
Adam Ferguson 68
John Toland 66
Thomas Sherlock 66
Hugh Blair 62
Jacques Saurin 62
James Macpherson 62
Académie royale des sciences et belles lettres (Berlin, Germany) 61
John Campbell 61
Joseph Butler 59
James Harris 58
John Brown 58
Richard Mead 55
James Ferguson 52
John Angell 48
Ange Goudar 45
John Byrom 45
Samuel Chandler 44
Pietro Metastasio 43
Richard Price 43
Simon Patrick Bishop of Ely 43
Catherine Macaulay 42
Sir William Blackstone 42
William Warburton 42
Tobias George Smollett 40
Walter Harte 40
Anton de Haen 37
Conyers Middleton 36
William Duff 36
William Hillary 36
William Lewis 36
Alexander Gerard 35
Henry Home Lord Kames 35
John Potter 35
Marie Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mezières Riccoboni 35
Bonnell Thornton 34
George Colman 34
William Shenstone 34
Temple Stanyan 33
Jane Marshall 31
Matthew Bacon 30
Thomas Percival 30
Adam Fitz-Adam 29
Bernard de Fontenelle 29
François Gayot de Pitaval 29
John Mair 29
Laurence Sterne 29
Abbé Prévost 28
Hippocrates 28
James Burrow 28
Samuel Mihles 28
Virgil 28
George Campbell 27
Joseph Addison 27
James Lee 26
Bishop George Berkeley 25
Jean-Henri-Samuel Formey 25
Linnaeus 25
Louis-Jean Lévesque de Pouilly 25
Robert Dossie 25
David Cranz 24
Giambattista Morgagni 23
John Bell 23
Benjamin Hoadly 22

Book Work

Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 497
New Collection of Voyages, Discoveries and Travels 369
Modern Part of an Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time 358
General History of Scotland [William Guthrie] 304
Roman History, from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth 256
Ecclesiastical History, Antient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Present Century 207
Monthly Review. A Periodical Work, Giving an Account ... of, and Extracts from, the New Books, Pamphlets, &c. 199
Scots Magazine 185
Inquiry into the Human Mind, on the Principles of Common Sense 179
Fool of Quality, or, The History of Henry Earl of Moreland 174
Works of Henry Fielding 173
Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes 172
History of England [David Hume] 172
Natural History, General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon 170
Observations on the Diseases of the Army 148
New History of the Holy Bible 144
Sermons on Practical Subjects [Robert Walker] 144
Christian in Compleat Armour 139
Biographia Britannica: or, the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons who have Flourished in Great Britain and Ireland 126
Essays and Observations, Physical and Literary 116
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 115
Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery 108
Adventurer ... . On Vent'rous Wing in Quest of Praise I Go, And Leave the Gazing Multitude Below 105
Dictionnaire de Chymie, Contenant la Théorie & la Pratique de Cette Science 105
Philosophical Transactions: Giving some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World 103
Moral Tales 99
Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers 95
Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects 90
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
Account of the Diseases which were Most Frequent in the British Military Hospitals in Germany 80
Experimental Essays [David Macbride] 77
View of the Principal Deistical Writers 77
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres 76
History and Present State of Electricity, with Original Experiments 75
Rambler 75
Discourses on Several Important Subjects [Jeremiah Seed] 73
Advantage and Necessity of the Christian Revelation 72
Comparative View of the State and Faculties of Man with those of the Animal World 71
History of the Popes, from the Foundation of the See of Rome, to the Present Time 70
Essay on the History of Civil Society 68
Plays of William Shakespeare 67
Several Discourses Preached at the Temple Church [Thomas Sherlock] 66
Van Swieten's Commentaries Abridged 66
Observations on the Nature, Causes, and Cure of those Disorders which have been commonly called Nervous 64
Sermons sur Divers Textes de l'Écriture Sainte 62
Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal ... Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian 62
Histoire de l'Acádemie Royale des Sciences et des Belles Lettres de Berlin 61
Lives of the Admirals and Other Eminent British Seamen 61
History of Charles XII, King of Sweden 60
Hermes, or, A Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Universal Grammar 56
Medical Works of Richard Mead 55
Works of William Shakespeare 55
Elementa Physiologiae Corporis Humani [Albrecht von Haller] 54
Primae Lineae Physiologiae, in Usum Praelectionum Academicarum 53
Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Optics 51
Stenography; or, Short-hand Improved 48
Arabian Nights Entertainments 47
Chinese Spy 45
Universal English Short-hand 45
Belisarius [Jean-François Marmontel] 44
Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau 44
Four Dissertations [Richard Price] 43
Commentaries on the Laws of England 42
Commentary upon the Historical Books of the Old Testament Part 1 42
Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated, on the Principes of a Religious Deist 42
History of England [Catherine Macaulay] 42
History of the Life of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden 40
Poesie del Signor Abate Pietro Metastasio 39
Sermons on the Following Subjects [Samuel Chandler] 39
Modern Part of the Universal History 38
Sermons on Various Subjects [John Brown] 38
Ratio Medendi in Nosocomio Practico Vindobonensi 37
Commercium Philosophico-Technicum; or, The Philosophical Commerce of Arts 36
Essay on Original Genius 36
History of the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero 36
Observations on the Changes of the Air and the Concomitant Epidemical Diseases, in the Island of Barbadoes 36
Archaelogia Graeca: or, The Antiquities of Greece 35
Connoisseur. By Mr Town, Critic and Censor-General 34
Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone 34
Grecian History [Temple Stanyan] 33
Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature 32
History of Miss Indiana Danby 32
History of Alicia Montague 31
Essays Medical and Experimental [Thomas Percival] 30
History of Miss Jenny Salisbury; Addressed to the Countess of Roscommond 30
History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and his friend Mr Abraham Adams 30
Medical Observations and Inquiries 30
New Abridgment of the Law 30
Arithmetic, Rational and Practical 29
Causes Célèbres et Intéressantes avec les Jugemens qui les ont Decidées 29
Collection of State-Trials, and Proceedings, upon High-Treason, and other Crimes and Misdemeanours, from the Reign of Queen Anne, to the Present Time. Volume IX [-X]. 29
Eloisa: or, A Series of Original Letters 29
Sermons of Mr Yorick 29
Works of Fontenelle 29
World 29
Aphorisms of Hippocrates 28
Elements of Surgery [Samuel Mihles] 28
Histoire Générale des Voyages 28
Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, since the Death of Lord Raymond 28
Works of Virgil 28

Book language

English 9145
French 1156
Latin 498
Italian 57
Greek 22
Arabic 4
Gaelic 4
German 3

Book place of publication

London 7179
Edinburgh 1560
Paris 748
Glasgow 163
Dublin 147
The Hague 140
Neuchâtel 127
Amsterdam 103
Oxford 81
Leipzig 76
Berlin 73
Lausanne 66
Vienna 50
Manchester 45
Leiden 31
Birmingham 26
Passau 23
Stockholm 22
Cambridge 18
Halle 10
Florence 9
Lyon 9
Naples 8
Dundee 7
Helmstedt 7
Strawberry Hill 7
Bologna 6
Gloucester 6
Geneva 5
Louvain 5
New Haven, CT 5
Norwich 5
St Petersburg 4
Bristol 3
Göttingen 3
Nuremberg 3
Twickenham 3
Cologne 2
Frankfurt am Main 2
Harlem 2
Helmstadt 2
Lille 2
Livorno 2
Lucca 2
Pesaro 2
Rome 2
Rouen 2
Venice 2
Verona 2
Yverdon 2
Basel 1
Brescia 1
Erlangen 1
Jena 1
La Rochelle 1
Madrid 1
Newcastle 1
Reading 1
Siena 1
Sélestat 1
Toulouse 1
unknown 1

Book format

8vo 6223
4to 2220
12mo 1693
folio 596
18mo 2
24mo 1

Genre

History 2018
Periodicals 1523
Medicine 1203
Theology 1160
Natural Philosophy 824
Fiction 822
Travel 706
Philosophy and Morality 694
Belles Lettres 681
Sermons 585
Lives 442
Poetry 380
Law 267
Politics, Society and Political Economy 231
Education 224
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 216
Drama 158
Reference Works 157
Fine Arts 98
Mathematics 74

Added in data version

1.0 10823

Page 85 of 109