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Library

Orkney Library 4915
Wigtown Subscription Library 2228
Chambers' Circulating Library 1914
Advocates Library 1523
Royal High School of Edinburgh 705
Selkirk Library 441
Westerkirk 403
Leighton Library 370
Edinburgh University Library 59
St Andrews University Library 56
Innerpeffray Library 51
Craigston Castle Library 10
Glasgow University Library 5
Dumfries Presbytery Library 2
Hunterian Museum Library 1

Borrower title

Mr 4730
Reverend Mr 1480
Mrs 1011
Captain 631
Dr 537
Miss 452
Reverend 190
Lady 103
Major 97
Lieutenant 80
Sir 61
Reverend Dr 35
Colonel 9
Honourable 8
Staff Sergeant 8
Professor 5
Brigadier General 3
Corporal 3
Mrs General 2
Sous Lieutenant 2
Sous-Lieutenant 2
General 1
Madame 1
Midshipman 1
Mrs Major 1

Borrower gender

Male 11071
Female 1572
Unknown 33
Unclear 7

Borrower occupation

Law 2418
Advocate 1497
Religion and Clergy 1326
Minister/Priest 1324
Independent Means 1300
Education 1145
Church of Scotland 1095
Gentleman 806
Writer/Procurator 734
School Child 702
Military 670
Politics/Office Holders 586
Medicine and Health 562
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 495
Navy 450
Arts and Letters 419
Sheriff 417
Customs Collector 321
Surgeon 310
Miscellaneous 289
Wife/Spouse 289
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 270
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 247
Physician 245
Author 244
Unknown denomination 176
University Student 154
Agricultural 152
Poet 151
Merchants/Traders 149
Advocate Depute 147
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 141
School Master/Dominie 132
Army 124
University Professor 117
Lord Provost/Provost 100
Barrister 90
Prisoner of War 86
Service Provision and Hospitality 85
Land Manager/Factor 79
Librarian 79
Booksellers 77
Print and Book Trade 77
Mariner 74
Writer to the Signet (WS) 74
Ships Owner 73
Farmer 64
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 62
Tax Collector 62
Tenant 61
Bookbinder 58
Surveyor 54
Accountant 52
Banker 52
Grocer 51
Presbyterian Seceder 51
Tanner/Currier 50
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 46
MP (Britain) 44
Clerk of Session 43
Dean of Faculty 43
Teacher 39
Notaries/Clerks 31
Watchmaker 28
Factor/Agent 25
Solicitor-General 25
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 20
Publishers 19
Construction 18
Distiller 18
Musician 14
Architect 13
Officer 13
Brewer 11
Judge 10
Baron of the Exchequer 9
Lord Advocate 9
Baillie 8
Clerks 8
Druggist/Chemist/Apothecary 7
Lord Justice Clerk 7
Dyer 5
Victualler 5
Messenger-at-arms 4
Builder 3
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 3
Retailer/Shopkeeper 3
Engineer 2
Lay Preacher 2
Lord President 2
Supporting Activities 2
Tutor 2
Chaplain 1
Insurance 1
Magistrate 1
Ships Captain 1

Author

Sir Walter Scott 1571
David Brewster 398
Washington Irving 274
John Galt 147
John Gibson Lockhart 131
George Gordon Byron Lord Byron 130
James Fenimore Cooper 130
Captain Basil Hall 117
John Wilson 'Christopher North' 95
Captain Thomas Pococke 92
Susan Ferrier 78
Alexander von Humboldt 73
Thomas Colley Grattan 71
John Banim 69
Michael Banim 68
Robert Mudie 67
William Scoresby 65
Mary Brunton 64
Sir Thomas Dick Lauder 55
William Cobbett 53
Hugh Murray 50
Major General David Stewart 50
Thomas Alexander Boswell 45
James Hogg 42
Dugald Stewart 41
Alexander Peterkin 40
George Crabbe 40
Mary Russell Mitford 40
Thomas McCrie 40
James Justinian Morier 39
Misses Corbett 39
George Chalmers 38
Morris Birkbeck 36
Edmund Burke 34
Thomas Brown The Elder 34
Alexander Sutherland 32
John Howison 32
Henry Bradshaw Fearon 31
Sir William Edward Parry 30
Amelia Alderson Opie 29
Erskine Neale 29
Moyle Sherer 28
Robert Southey 28
Alexander Ranken 27
Theodore Edward Hook 27
Edward Daniel Clarke 26
Lucy Aikin 26
Anna Maria Porter 25
Benjamin Disraeli 25
Baron Horatio Walpole 24
Robert Chambers 24
Horatio Smith 23
Hugh William Williams 23
Robert Pearse Gillies 23
Thomas Hope 23
William Hazlitt 23
William Henry Curran 23
Louis Simond 22
Thomas Bewick 22
Henry Matthews 21
Colonel Francis Hall 19
James Hook 19
Royal College of Physicians of London 19
William Kirby 19
William Nugent Glascock 19
William Pitt Scargill 19
William Spence 19
Allan Cunningham 18
John Franklin 18
William Charles Wentworth 18
Barbara Hofland 17
Comte Philippe-Paul Ségur 17
Marianne Spencer Stanhope Hudson 17
Charlotte Campbell Lady Bury 16
Eliza Logan 16
John Russell 16
Miss E. H. M'Leod 16
Samuel Rogers 16
Thomas Moore 16
Barry Edward O'Meara 15
Thomas Campbell 15
Alphonse de Beauchamp 14
Felix M'Donogh 14
Frances Wright 14
James Dixon 14
Thomas Crofton Croker 14
Charles Robert Maturin 13
Constantine Henry Phipps Marquess of Normanby 13
James Mill 13
Mme Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Campan 13
Mrs Anna Jameson 13
William Tennant 13
Amelia Bristow 12
Johan Christian Mämpel 12
John Neal 12
Thomas De Quincey 12
Henry Grattan 11
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 11
Samuel William Ryley 11
Commoner 10

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
Ivanhoe; a Romance 195
New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal 174
Abbot 157
Pirate 143
Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley 136
Tales of my Landlord [Third Series] 127
New Annual Register 126
Works of Lord Byron 124
Monastery. A Romance 119
Kenilworth, a Romance 109
Fortunes of Nigel 104
Eclectic Review 98
Journal of a Soldier of the Seventy-First, or Glasgow Regiment Highland Light Infantry, from 1806 to 1815 92
Quentin Durward 84
Woodstock; or, the Cavalier 83
Peveril of the Peak 81
Tales of a Traveller 81
Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 78
Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal 73
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent during the Years 1799-1804 73
Extracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru and Mexico in the Years 1820, 1821 and 1822 69
Tales of the Crusaders 66
Account of the Arctic Regions, with a History and description of the Northern Whale-Fishery 64
Emmeline. With Some Other Pieces 64
Redgauntlet, a Tale of the Eighteenth Century 62
Bracebridge Hall; or, the Humorists 61
Glenfergus 60
St Ronan's Well 58
High-Ways and By-Ways, or, Tales of the Roadside [Second Series] 57
Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk 57
Edinburgh Annual Register 56
Literary and Statistical Magazine for Scotland 55
Lochandhu. A Tale of the Eighteenth Century 55
Reginald Dalton 53
History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty 51
Inheritance [Susan Edmonstone Ferrier] 51
Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels and Asia 50
Sir Andrew Wylie, of that Ilk 50
Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland 50
Voyage to Loo-Choo, and Other Places in the Eastern Seas in the Year 1816 48
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind 41
Life of Andrew Melville 40
Notes on Orkney and Zetland 40
Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery 40
Tales of the Hall 40
Adventures of Hajji Baba, of Ispahan 39
Last of the Mohicans 39
Trials of Margaret Lindsay 39
Caledonia: or, An Account, Historical and Topographic, of North Britain 36
Edinburgh: A Satirical Novel 34
Pilot: A Tale of the Sea 34
Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke 34
Monthly Magazine and British Register 33
Foresters 32
Entail; or The Lairds of Grippy 31
Odd Volume 31
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
Sketches of Upper Canada ... To which are added, Practical Details for the information of Emigrants of Every Class 30
Tales by the O'Hara Family. Second Series. Comprising The Nowlans, and Peter of the Castle 30
Year's Residence in the United States of America 30
Living and the Dead. By a Country Curate 28
Recollections of a Pedestrian 28
Tales of my Landlord [First Series] 28
History of France [Alexander Ranken] 27
Marriage, a Novel 27
Westminster Review 27
Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa 26
Winter Evening Tales 26
Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life, A Selection from the Papers of the Late Arthur Austin 24
Vivian Grey 24
Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford 24
Anastasius, or, Memoirs of a Greek Written at the Close of the Eighteenth Century 23
Autobiography. A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published 23
Life of the Right Honourable John Philpot Curran 23
Tales, by the O'Hara Family: Containing Crohoore of the Bill-hook, The Fetches, and John Doe 23
Travels in Italy, Greece, and the Ionian Islands in a Series of Letters Descriptive of Manners, Scenery, and the Fine Arts 23
Tales of a Voyager to the Arctic Ocean 22
Traditions of Edinburgh 22
Diary of an Invalid; being the Journal of a Tour ... in Portugal, Italy, Switzerland and France in the Years 1817-1819 21
Human Heart 21
Provost 20
Sayings and Doings [Second Series] 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
Naval Sketch Book; or, The Service Afloat and Ashore 19
Travels in France, in 1818 19
Truth. A Novel 19
Friendship's Offering; A Literary Album 18
Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea 18
Statistical, Historical, and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales 18
Almack's: A Novel 17

Book language

English 12538
French 77
German 29
Latin 28
Greek 11
Spanish 4
Anglo-Saxon 3
Italian 3
Icelandic 1

Book place of publication

Edinburgh 7489
London 5615
Paris 69
Glasgow 37
Stuttgart 14
Oxford 12
Berlin 8
Cambridge 7
Dublin 6
Newcastle 6
Leipzig 5
Calcutta 3
New York 3
Tübingen 3
Frankfurt am Main 2
Göttingen 2
Utrecht 2
Amsterdam 1
Breslau 1
Chiswick 1
Copenhagen 1
Geneva 1
Halle 1
Heidelberg 1
Inverness 1
Leiden 1
Londonderry 1
Madrid 1
Malacca 1
Philadelphia 1
Siena 1
Verona 1
Weimar 1
Wellington, Shropshire 1

Book format

8vo 8481
12mo 2041
4to 414
folio 408
18mo 32
16mo 5
24mo 1

Genre

Periodicals 5479
Fiction 3604
Travel 1088
Theology 629
Lives 541
Reference Works 453
Belles Lettres 389
History 371
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 363
Poetry 329
Politics, Society and Political Economy 181
Philosophy and Morality 114
Natural Philosophy 108
Law 73
Medicine 67
Education 35
Drama 32
Fine Arts 18
Sermons 11
Mathematics 3

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