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Library

Orkney Library 6422
Wigtown Subscription Library 1822
Advocates Library 1529
Royal High School of Edinburgh 963
Chambers' Circulating Library 747
Westerkirk 572
Selkirk Library 441
Leighton Library 398
Innerpeffray Library 108
St Andrews University Library 63
Edinburgh University Library 61
Craigston Castle Library 10
Glasgow University Library 8
Hunterian Museum Library 1

Borrower title

Mr 5151
Reverend Mr 1732
Mrs 760
Captain 701
Dr 559
Miss 307
Reverend 181
Lieutenant 118
Major 67
Reverend Dr 61
Sir 52
Lady 45
Honourable 6
Colonel 5
Brigadier General 3
Corporal 3
Mrs General 2
Professor 2
Sous Lieutenant 2
Sous-Lieutenant 2
Madame 1
Midshipman 1

Borrower gender

Male 11989
Female 1119
Unknown 27
Unclear 8

Borrower occupation

Law 2344
Independent Means 1617
Religion and Clergy 1588
Minister/Priest 1586
Advocate 1510
Education 1439
Church of Scotland 1336
Gentleman 1016
School Child 956
Military 775
Writer/Procurator 678
Politics/Office Holders 648
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 602
Navy 594
Medicine and Health 571
Sheriff 454
Arts and Letters 432
Surgeon 325
Customs Collector 319
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 282
Author 250
Physician 238
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 219
University Student 200
Unknown denomination 195
Merchants/Traders 194
Poet 143
Advocate Depute 141
Agricultural 138
School Master/Dominie 133
Miscellaneous 123
Wife/Spouse 123
University Professor 121
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 112
Lord Provost/Provost 97
Surveyor 97
Mariner 95
Army 93
Ships Owner 93
Librarian 87
Prisoner of War 86
Tax Collector 80
Booksellers 72
Print and Book Trade 72
Service Provision and Hospitality 71
Barrister 67
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 66
Dean of Faculty 65
Land Manager/Factor 65
Farmer 64
Tenant 61
Bookbinder 59
Presbyterian Seceder 53
MP (Britain) 50
Grocer 47
Writer to the Signet (WS) 45
Tanner/Currier 44
Clerk of Session 40
Banker 34
Notaries/Clerks 34
Factor/Agent 32
Accountant 31
Solicitor-General 28
Teacher 28
Watchmaker 28
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 20
Construction 18
Distiller 18
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 16
Judge 15
Architect 13
Publishers 13
Baron of the Exchequer 12
Lord Advocate 10
Baillie 8
Clerks 8
Druggist/Chemist/Apothecary 8
Lord Justice Clerk 7
Dyer 6
Officer 6
Retailer/Shopkeeper 5
Brewer 4
Mason/Miller 4
Messenger-at-arms 4
Engineer 3
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 3
Builder 2
Lay Preacher 2
Lord President 2
Musician 2
Ships Captain 2
Tutor 2
Victualler 2
Chaplain 1
Magistrate 1
Supporting Activities 1

Author

Sir Walter Scott 1959
David Brewster 397
Maria Edgeworth 184
George Gordon Byron Lord Byron 157
Washington Irving 132
David Hume 126
James Hogg 93
Captain Thomas Pococke 92
John Galt 88
Charles Robert Maturin 83
Amelia Alderson Opie 77
Frances Jacson 77
John Gibson Lockhart 76
Mungo Park 76
Edward Daniel Clarke 75
Alexander von Humboldt 73
Arthur Mower 69
Mary Brunton 64
William Scoresby 64
Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan 62
Robert Mudie 60
Thomas Moore 60
Dugald Stewart 54
Morris Birkbeck 54
John Leyden 52
William Cobbett 52
Eaton Stannard Barrett 50
Hugh Murray 50
Major General David Stewart 50
George Chalmers 48
Sir John Leslie 43
Susan Ferrier 42
William Tennant 42
Tobias George Smollett 41
William Bromet 41
Alexander Peterkin 40
Charlotte Champion Willyams 40
George Crabbe 40
Jane Louise Willyams 40
Marquise Marie-Louise-Victoire La Rochejaquelein 40
Thomas McCrie 40
Captain Basil Hall 37
Edmund Burke 35
Andrew Thomson 34
Thomas Brown The Elder 34
Robert Southey 33
Thomas Chalmers 32
Colonel Francis Hall 31
Henry Bradshaw Fearon 31
James Fenimore Cooper 31
Henry Mackenzie 30
John Howison 30
John Shillibeer 30
Lucy Aikin 30
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 30
Vasiliĭ Mikhaĭlovich Golovnin 29
Alexander Ranken 27
John M'Leod 25
John Wilson 'Christopher North' 25
Sir William Edward Parry 25
Baron Horatio Walpole 24
Hugh William Williams 23
Thomas Hope 23
William Henry Curran 23
Alexander Sutherland 22
Ebenezer Henderson 22
Samuel Rogers 22
Dominique Georges Frédéric de Pradt 20
John Cockburn 20
Royal College of Physicians of London 19
William Kirby 19
William Spence 19
William Charles Wentworth 18
William Godwin 18
William Mitford 18
Barbara Hofland 16
Miss E. H. M'Leod 16
Thomas Bewick 16
Barry Edward O'Meara 15
Madame Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël 15
Thomas Campbell 15
William Laurence Brown 15
Frances Wright 14
James Dixon 14
John Chetwode Eustace 14
Sir Francis Beaufort 14
Thomas Legh 13
William Hazlitt 13
Comtesse Stéphanie Félicité Genlis 12
Hugh Blair 12
John Murray 12
John Scott 12
John Thomas James 12
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Mary Godwin 12
Thomas De Quincey 12
Alphonse de Beauchamp 11
David Ricardo 11
Hannah Ann Bullock 11
Henry Grattan 11
James Boswell 11

Book Work

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 2044
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
Tales of my Landlord [First Series] 294
Ivanhoe; a Romance 195
Antiquary 186
New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal 174
Abbot 157
Rob Roy 149
Pirate 143
Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley 136
Works of Lord Byron 130
Tales of my Landlord [Third Series] 127
New Annual Register 126
History of England [David Hume] 125
Monastery. A Romance 119
Kenilworth, a Romance 109
Fortunes of Nigel 104
Eclectic Review 98
Harrington, A Tale, and Ormond, A Tale 98
Journal of a Soldier of the Seventy-First, or Glasgow Regiment Highland Light Infantry, from 1806 to 1815 92
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
Peveril of the Peak 81
Tales of my Landlord [Second Series] 81
Rhoda: A Novel 77
Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa 75
Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal 73
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent during the Years 1799-1804 73
White Cottage. A Tale 69
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797 67
Account of the Arctic Regions, with a History and description of the Northern Whale-Fishery 64
Emmeline. With Some Other Pieces 64
Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 61
Glenfergus 60
Lalla Rookh, an Oriental Romance 57
Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk 57
Edinburgh Annual Register 56
Literary and Statistical Magazine for Scotland 55
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind 54
Valentine's Eve 54
Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk 52
Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels and Asia 50
Sir Andrew Wylie, of that Ilk 50
Six Weeks at Long's 50
Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland 50
France [Lady Morgan] 47
Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Africa, by the Late John Leyden 45
Women 44
Marriage, a Novel 42
Complete History of England [Tobias Smollett] 41
Elements of Geometry and Plane Trigonometry 41
Peregrine in France 41
Coquetry 40
Life of Andrew Melville 40
Notes on Orkney and Zetland 40
Tales of the Hall 40
Bracebridge Hall; or, the Humorists 38
Caledonia: or, An Account, Historical and Topographic, of North Britain 36
Anster Fair ... With Other Poems 34
Dramatic Tales 34
Edinburgh: A Satirical Novel 34
Lectures, expository and practical, on select portions of Scripture 34
Memoirs of the Marchioness de la Rochejaquelein 34
Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke 34
History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty 33
Monthly Magazine and British Register 33
Voyage to Loo-Choo, and Other Places in the Eastern Seas in the Year 1816 32
Sketches of America. A Narrative of a Journey of five Thousand Miles through the Eastern and Western States of America 31
Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground 31
Don Quixote 30
Moral Tales [Edgeworth] 30
Narrative of the Briton's Voyage, to Pitcairn's Island 30
Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation Viewed in Connection with the Modern Astronomy 30
Sketches of Upper Canada ... To which are added, Practical Details for the information of Emigrants of Every Class 30
Works of Henry Mackenzie 30
Year's Residence in the United States of America 30
Bertram, or the Castle of St. Aldobrand 28
Popular Tales [Maria Edgeworth] 28
History of France [Alexander Ranken] 27
Comic Dramas, in Three Acts 26
Winter Evening Tales 26
Narrative of my Captivity in Japan during the years 1811, 1812 and 1813 25
Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste, along the Coast of Corea, to the Island of Lewchew 25
Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale 24
Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford 24
Anastasius, or, Memoirs of a Greek Written at the Close of the Eighteenth Century 23
Life of the Right Honourable John Philpot Curran 23
Travels in Italy, Greece, and the Ionian Islands in a Series of Letters Descriptive of Manners, Scenery, and the Fine Arts 23
Iceland; or the Journal of a Residence in that Island during the years 1814 and 1815 22
Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life, A Selection from the Papers of the Late Arthur Austin 21
Unfortunate Englishman; or, A Faithful Narrative of the Distresses and Adventures of John Cockburn 20
Annals of the Parish; or, The Chronicles of Dalmailing 19
Introduction to Entomology, or, Elements of the Natural History of Insects 19
Journal of the First, Second and Third Voyages for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific in 1819-25 19
Medical Transactions, Published by the College of Physicians in London 19
Travels in France, in 1818 19
History of Greece [William Mitford] 18

Book language

English 12940
French 118
German 41
Latin 35
Greek 15
Italian 4
Urdu 2
Icelandic 1
Spanish 1

Book place of publication

Edinburgh 7933
London 5766
Paris 107
Glasgow 52
Aberdeen 15
Oxford 15
Stuttgart 14
Berlin 11
Leipzig 11
Cambridge 10
Dublin 6
Bath 3
Calcutta 3
Chiswick 3
Tübingen 3
Altenburg 2
Florence 2
Frankfurt am Main 2
Göttingen 2
Leeds 2
Sheffield 2
Utrecht 2
Amsterdam 1
Breslau 1
Caen 1
Copenhagen 1
Erfurt 1
Geneva 1
Halle 1
Heidelberg 1
Inverness 1
Leghorn 1
Leiden 1
Madrid 1
Malacca 1
Munich 1
Preston 1
Siena 1
Verona 1
Weimar 1
York 1

Book format

8vo 7933
12mo 2437
4to 490
folio 406

Genre

Periodicals 5544
Fiction 3279
Travel 1277
Theology 719
History 586
Lives 563
Poetry 478
Reference Works 459
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 396
Belles Lettres 271
Politics, Society and Political Economy 207
Natural Philosophy 138
Philosophy and Morality 119
Medicine 89
Drama 88
Law 74
Education 46
Mathematics 43
Sermons 16
Fine Arts 7
Miscellaneous/Other 1

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