Contemporary sources
Defoe, D, A tour through the whole island of Great Britain, 1723, G D H Cole and D C Browning (eds), London, 1974.
Forsyth, R, The Beauties of Scotland, 5 vols, Edinburgh, 1805-08.
Kyd, J G, Scottish Population Statistics, including Webster’s Analysis of Population 1755, Edinburgh, 1975.
Loch, D, Essays on the trade, commerce, manufactures and fisheries of Scotland, 3 vols, Edinburgh, 1778.
Statistical Account of Scotland, 15 vols, Edinburgh, 1845.
Pigot and Co’s New Commercial Directory of Scotland for 1825-6, London and Manchester.
Pococke, R, Tours in Scotland 1747, 1750, 1760, D W Kemp (ed), Edinburgh, 1887.
Sinclair, Sir John (ed), Statistical Account of Scotland, 21 vols, Edinburgh, 1791-99.
Wood, John, Wood's Town Atlas, Edinburgh, 1818-28.
Wood, John, Descriptive Account of the Principal Towns in Scotland: to accompany Wood's town atlas, Edinburgh, 1828.

In addition, there are a number of travellers accounts (though many took the same fashionable route, and some towns were hardly visited), gazetteers, local directories, and other local publications. But be aware that many commentators from the 1790s to the 1820s plagiarised the Statistical Account.

Architecture and townscape
Aston, M, and Bond, J, The Landscape of Towns, London, 1976.
Ayres, J, Building the Georgian City, New Haven and London, 1998.
Chalklin, C W, The Provincial Towns of Georgian England: a Study of the Building Process 1740-1820, London, 1974.
McWilliam, C, Scottish Townscape, London, 1975.
Markus, T A (ed), Order in Space and Society: architectural form and its context in the Scottish Enlightenment, Edinburgh, 1982.
Naismith, R, The Story of Scotland’s Towns, Edinburgh, 1989.
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Tolbooths and Town-houses, civic architecture in Scotland to 1833, Edinburgh, 1996.

In addition, there are architectural guide books. The series produced by the RIAS and the Rutland Press covers much of Scotland, and is well illustrated. The Pevsner series covers less of Scotland. These books are more detailed, but less imaginative, and have fewer illustrations.

Material culture
Bermingham, A and Brewer, J (eds), The Consumption of Culture 1600-1800, London and New York, 1995.
Brewer, J and Porter, R (eds), Consumption and the World of Goods, London and New York, 1993.
Carruthers, A (ed), The Scottish Home, Edinburgh, 1996.
Lubar, S and Kingery, W D (eds), History from Things: Essays on Material Culture, Washington and London, 1993.
Weatherill, L, Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in Britain 1660-1760, London, 1988.
Wright, L, Clean and Decent: the fascinating history of the bathroom and the water closet, London, 1960.

British and European
Clark, P (ed), The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, vol.2, 1540-1840, Cambridge, 2000.
Colley, L, Britons: forging the nation 1707-1837, London, 1992.
Corfield, P J, Power and the Professions in Britain 1700-1850, London and New York, 1995.
Fraser, D and Sutcliffe, A (eds), The Pursuit of Urban History, London, 1983.
de Vries, J, European Urbanisation 1500-1800, London, 1984.
Walton, J K and Walvin, J (eds), Leisure in Britain 1780-1939, Manchester, 1983.

English
Borsay, P, The English Urban Renaissance, Culture and Society in the Provincial Town 1660-1770, Oxford 1989.
Borsay, P (ed), The Eighteenth-century Town, a Reader in English Urban History, 1688-1820, London 1990.
Clark, P (ed.), The Transformation of English Provincial Towns 1600-1800, London, 1984.
Corfield, P J, The Impact of English towns 1700-1800, Oxford, 1982.
Everitt, A (ed), Perspectives in English Urban History, London, 1973.

Scottish
Anderson, R D, Education and the Scottish People 1750-1918, Oxford, 1995.
Brown, C G, Religion and Society in Scotland since 1707, Edinburgh, 1997.
Cameron, J, Prisons and Punishment in Scotland from the Middle Ages to the Present, Edinburgh, 1983.
Campbell, R H, Scotland since 1707: the rise of an industrial society, 2nd edn, Edinburgh, 1985.
Checkland, S G, Scottish Banking, A History, 1695-1973, Glasgow and London, 1975.
Cooke, A, Donnachie, I, MacSween, A and Whatley, C A (eds), Modern Scottish History 1707 to the Present, Volume I: The Transformation of Scotland, 1707-1850, East Linton, 1998.
Devine, T M and Mitchison, R (eds), People and Society in Scotland, vol I, 1760-1830, Edinburgh, 1988.
Devine, T M and Young, J R (eds), Eighteenth Century Scotland: New Perspectives, East Linton, 1999.
Hamilton, H, An Economic History of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century, Oxford, 1963.
Houston, R A and Whyte, I D, Scottish Society 1500-1800, Cambridge, 1989.
Houston, R A, Social Change in the Age of Enlightenment: Edinburgh 1660-1760, Oxford, 1994.
Leneman, L and Mitchison, R, Sin in the City: sexuality and social control in urban Scotland 1660-1780, Edinburgh, 1998.
Logue, K, Popular Disturbances in Scotland 1780-1815, Edinburgh, 1979.
Munn, C W, The Scottish Provincial Banking Companies, 1747-1864, Edinburgh, 1981.
Sanderson, E, Women and work in eighteenth century Edinburgh, Basingstoke, 1996.
Smout, T C, A History of the Scottish People 1560-1830, London, 1969.
Whatley, C A, The Industrial Revolution in Scotland, Cambridge, 1997.
Whatley, C A, Scottish Society 1707-1830: beyond Jacobitism, towards industrialisation, Manchester, 2000.

In addition there are books on individual towns, including the series of Historic Burgh Surveys produced by Historic Scotland. There are also books on specific topics such as the militia, literacy or county administration, or dealing with specific businesses or industries.