The tables within this book present but a part (albeit a significant part) of the material we have collected during the course of an ESRC-funded research project on Scottish wages and prices. This larger body of data which, in addition to further wage and price material, includes a number of long-term demographic and meterological series for Edinburgh, is held on computer and is being deposited with the ESRC Data Archive at University of Essex. Hardcopy printout is also being deposited with the Scottish Record Office in Edinburgh and in St Andrews University Library. In addition, the full database has been retained for developmental purposes at Exeter University, and may be retrieved, in whole or in part, using remote file transfer via the Joint Academic Network (JANET). Any academic interested in obtaining the data in such a way should in the first instance contact the authors via electronic mail at the following address: ajgibson@uk.ac.exeter