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Library

Leighton Library 1006
Advocates Library 788
Royal High School of Edinburgh 274
Orkney Library 243
Chambers' Circulating Library 204
Selkirk Library 192
Haddington Library 103
Glasgow University Library 53
St Andrews University Library 38
Edinburgh University Library 24
Aberdeen Theological Library 12
Innerpeffray Library 5
Hunterian Museum Library 2

Borrower title

Mr 1021
Reverend Mr 696
Reverend Dr 253
Dr 241
Mrs 144
Lady 70
Sir 61
Professor 45
Reverend 4

Borrower gender

Male 2730
Female 214

Borrower occupation

Arts and Letters 2944
Author 2944
Religion and Clergy 1227
Minister/Priest 1187
Law 975
Advocate 789
Church of Scotland 787
Education 377
Presbyterian Seceder 374
Sheriff 324
University Professor 322
Poet 208
Politics/Office Holders 156
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 137
Clerk of Session 124
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 68
Independent Means 62
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 62
Baron of the Exchequer 61
Lord Provost/Provost 61
Medicine and Health 55
Banker 54
Customs Collector 53
Physician 50
Surveyor 42
Lay Preacher 36
Tutor 36
Barrister 32
Bishop 24
Episcopalian 24
University Student 20
Merchants/Traders 14
Writer to the Signet (WS) 12
Miscellaneous 11
Widow 11
Surgeon 5
Advocate Depute 4
Elder 4
Writer/Procurator 4
Solicitor-General 2
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 1
Notaries/Clerks 1
Unknown denomination 1

Author

Sir Walter Scott 45
Sir John Sinclair 37
William Robertson 33
David Hume 30
Richard Watson Bishop of Llandaff 23
Hugh Blair 19
George Campbell 17
Charles Rollin 16
Thomas Reid 16
Henry Home Lord Kames 15
Virgil 15
Mrs Elizabeth Inchbald 14
Simon Patrick Bishop of Ely 14
Dr John Moore 13
Dugald Stewart 13
Maria Edgeworth 13
William Paley 13
Gilbert Burnet 12
James Beattie 12
James Macpherson 12
Terence 12
Edward Gibbon 11
Elizabeth Hamilton 11
Cornelius Tacitus 10
Dr Samuel Johnson 10
John Spottiswood 10
John Strype 10
Tobias George Smollett 10
William Guthrie 10
Claude Étienne Savary 9
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy 9
Malcolm Laing 9
Richard Hurd 9
Voltaire 9
William Warburton 9
Vicesimus Knox 8
John Knox 8
John Millar 8
Marcus Tullius Cicero 8
Mary Russell Mitford 8
Mungo Park 8
William Coxe 8
William Russell 8
Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon 7
George Chalmers 7
Henry Mackenzie 7
John Banim 7
John Campbell 7
Michael Banim 7
Robert Burns 7
Robert Lowth 7
Royal Society of Edinburgh 7
William Hayley 7
Adam Smith 6
Benjamin Hoadly 6
Charles de Brosses 6
Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton 6
Frederick II King of Prussia 6
James Boswell 6
James Macknight 6
Jean-Baptiste Massillon 6
Jeremiah Seed 6
Johann Lorenz Mosheim 6
John Leland 6
John Owen 6
John Pinkerton 6
Joseph Addison 6
Marie Huber 6
Oliver Goldsmith 6
Plutarch 6
Robert Henry 6
Robert Leighton 6
Sir David Dalrymple Lord Hailes 6
Sir Ralph Sadler 6
Thomas Innes 6
Thomas Percival 6
Thomas Stackhouse 6
Adam Ferguson 5
Arthur Edmondston 5
Conyers Middleton 5
Daniel Defoe 5
Daniel Neal 5
Frances Burney 5
Henry Fielding 5
Hugo Arnot 5
Jacques Saurin 5
James Sibbald 5
Jane Austen 5
Jeremy Taylor 5
John Barclay 5
John Bell 5
John Erskine 5
John Jamieson 5
John Milton 5
Marquise de Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Sévigné 5
Noël Antoine Pluche 5
Philip Doddridge 5
Pliny the Younger 5
Polybius 5
Richard Graves 5

Book Work

Encyclopaedia Britannica 36
Statistical Account of Scotland 36
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 27
History of England [David Hume] 27
Edinburgh Review, or, Critical Journal 18
New Annual Register 17
Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill 16
British Theatre; or, a Collection of Plays ... acted at the Theatre Royal 14
Collection of Theological Tracts, in Six Volumes [Richard Watson] 14
Quarterly Review 14
Commentary upon the Historical Books of the Old Testament Part 1 13
History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and King James VI 13
New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal 13
Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 12
Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians 11
Comedies [Terence] 11
History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V 11
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres 11
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 10
History of the Church of Scotland, Beginning the Year of our Lord 203, and Continued to the End of the Reign of King James the VI 10
Works of Tacitus 10
Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man 9
General History of Scotland [William Guthrie] 9
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 9
Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece 9
Works of Virgil 9
Chemical Essays [Richard Watson] 8
History of Modern Europe 8
Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery 8
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797 8
Works of Voltaire 8
Biographia Britannica: or, the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons who have Flourished in Great Britain and Ireland 7
British Essayists 7
Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated, on the Principes of a Religious Deist 7
Four Gospels, Translated from the Greek 7
Historie of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland 7
Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy 7
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 7
Continuation of the Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews, Chapters 6-10 6
Critical Essay on the Ancient Inhabitants of the Northern parts of Britain, or Scotland 6
Discourses on Several Important Subjects [Jeremiah Seed] 6
Ecclesiastical History, Antient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Present Century 6
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind 6
Essays on the Active Powers of Man 6
Harmony of the Four Gospels 6
Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes 6
History of Great Britain [Robert Henry] 6
Lives [Plutarch] 6
New History of the Holy Bible 6
Posthumous Works of Frederick II King of Prussia 6
Sermons [Hugh Blair] 6
Sermons of Jean-Baptiste Massillon 6
Account of the Life and Writings of William Robertson 5
Annals of Scotland [David Dalrymple] 5
Caledonia: or, An Account, Historical and Topographic, of North Britain 5
Chronicle of Scottish Poetry; From the Thirteenth Century, to the Union of the Crowns 5
Cottagers of Glenburnie 5
Edinburgh Christian Instructor 5
General History of Stirlingshire 5
Histories [Polybius] 5
History and Proceedings of the House of Commons from the Restoration to the Present Time 5
History of the Puritans [Daniel Neal] 5
History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641 5
Horae Paulinae, or The Truth of the Scripture History of St Paul Evinced 5
Institute of the Law of Scotland 5
Letters on Greece: Being a Sequel to Letters on Egypt 5
Lettres sur la Religion Essentielle à l'Homme, Distinguée de ce qui n'en est que l'Accessoire 5
Modern Part of the Universal History 5
Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions [Robert South] 5
Spiritual Quixote: or, The Summer's Ramble of Mr Geoffry Wildgoose 5
Tales by the O'Hara Family. Second Series. Comprising The Nowlans, and Peter of the Castle 5
Travels from St Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia 5
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark 5
View of the Ancient and Present State of the Zetland Islands 5
Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans, in the Years 1789 and 1793 5
Works of Cicero 5
Works of Horace 5
Zeluco 5
Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time 4
Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress 4
Criterion; or, Rules by which the True Miracles Recorded in the New Testament are Distinguished from the Spurious Miracles of Pagans and Papists 4
Critica Sacra [Edward Leigh] 4
Dissertations Moral and Critical 4
Dr Goldsmith's Roman History abridged by Himself for the Use of Schools 4
Enquiry into the History of Scotland Preceding the Reign of Malcom III 4
Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species 4
Essays, Political, Economical, and Philosophical 4
Evidences of the Christian Religion; Briefly and Plainly Stated 4
General Description of China 4
Historical View of the English Government, from the Settlement of the Saxons in Britain to the Accession of the House of Stewart 4
History of America [William Robertson] 4
History of Rome [Livy] 4
History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic 4
History of the Reformation in Scotland [George Cook] 4
History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, from the Restauration [sic] to the Revolution 4
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 4
Introduction to the Study of the Prophecies Concerning the Christian Church 4
Isaiah. A New Translation; with a Preliminary Dissertation, and Notes Critical, Philological, and Explanatory 4
Lay of the Last Minstrel, a Poem 4
Letters on Egypt [Claude Étienne Savary] 4

Book language

English 2196
Latin 282
French 151
Greek 33
Italian 23
German 4
Hebrew 4
Spanish 4
Scots 3
Gaelic 2
Arabic 1
Icelandic 1
Russian 1
Various 1
Welsh 1

Book place of publication

London 1611
Edinburgh 533
Paris 104
Amsterdam 41
Oxford 37
Glasgow 33
Leiden 29
Geneva 23
Dublin 21
The Hague 21
Lyon 17
Basel 16
Cambridge 16
Venice 15
Frankfurt am Main 13
Leipzig 11
Neuchâtel 8
Copenhagen 7
Perth 7
Bath 6
Warrington 6
Florence 5
Utrecht 5
York 4
Halle 3
Kehl 3
Kelso 3
Nuremberg 3
St Petersburg 3
Aberdeen 2
Aldershot 2
Antwerp 2
Berlin 2
Chester 2
Cologne 2
Dundee 2
Frankfurt 2
Hamburg 2
Liverpool 2
Louvain 2
New York 2
Philadelphia 2
Rotterdam 2
Rouen 2
Zurich 2
Altdorf 1
Amberg 1
Anvers 1
Bergamo 1
Birmingham 1
Bologna 1
Brussels 1
Burgos 1
Caen 1
Chambéry 1
Chichester 1
Chiswick 1
Cordoba 1
Delft 1
Douai 1
Erlangen 1
Frankfurt an der Oder 1
Giessen 1
Gloucester 1
Hafod 1
Hague 1
Hanover 1
Hawick 1
Ingolstadt 1
Königsberg 1
La Rochelle 1
Lausanne 1
Leith 1
Liège 1
Luxembourg 1
Madrid 1
Mainz 1
Marseille 1
Milan 1
Naples 1
Newcastle 1
Newcastle upon Tyne 1
Osnabrück 1
Padua 1
Paisley 1
Pisa 1
Preston 1
Pwllpeiran 1
Rome 1
S. I. 1
Southwark 1
Strasbourg 1
Turin 1
Uppsala 1
Wittenberg 1
Zierizee 1
i.e. Aberdeen? 1
unknown 1

Book format

8vo 1242
4to 556
12mo 408
folio 324
18mo 22
16mo 3
24mo 1

Genre

History 617
Theology 308
Fiction 280
Lives 271
Travel 250
Belles Lettres 185
Poetry 174
Periodicals 159
Politics, Society and Political Economy 157
Law 147
Philosophy and Morality 129
Sermons 90
Natural Philosophy 82
Reference Works 79
Drama 57
Education 48
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 39
Medicine 38
Fine Arts 14
Mathematics 7
Miscellaneous/Other 1

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