| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | [description of work while employed as an apprentice at the warehouse of Mr Tait, proprietor of 'Tait's Edinburgh Maga... | James Glass Bertram | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At the beginning of each month, too, there fell to be collected from the various agents a large number of English mag... | James Glass Bertram | [unknown] | [various English periodicals] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'At the beginning of each month, too, there fell to be collected from the various agents a large number of English mag... | James Glass Bertram | [n/a] | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | William Cobbett | Advice to young men | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | George L. Craik | Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | William Tait | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | Walter Scott | The Bride of Lammermoor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | Walter Scott | St Ronan's Well | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My father, who was in the employment of Mr Cadell, Sir Walter's publisher, brought home "The Monastery" and "The Fort... | | Walter Scott | The Monastery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My father, who was in the employment of Mr Cadell, Sir Walter's publisher, brought home "The Monastery" and "The Fort... | | Walter Scott | The Fortunes of Nigel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, includin... | James Glass Bertram | John Galt | Lives of the players | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, includin... | James Glass Bertram | John Galt | Sir Andrew Wyllie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, includin... | James Glass Bertram | John Galt | Annals of the Parish | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As an apprentice I was a subscriber to the Mechanic's Library, from which I borrowed a great supply of books - my tas... | James Glass Bertram | Samuel Smiles | [biographies of men] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Another book I read with much zest was the autobiography of Lackington, the bookseller, a copy of which amusing and i... | James Glass Bertram | James Lackington | [autobiography] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In Mr Tait's warehouse I read Hogg's "Shepherd's Calendar" and some of his poems also, while, at various times, many ... | James Glass Bertram | James Hogg | Shepherd's Calendar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I pursued a similar plan with others of the magazines whenever I got a chance, especially "Bentley's Miscellany", whi... | James Glass Bertram | [n/a] | Bentley's Miscellany | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'One Saturday afternoon in the summer of 1838, whilst crossing Brumsfield links on my way home to Morningside, endeavo... | James Glass Bertram | Robert Chambers | Chambers's Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I pursued a similar plan with others of the magazines whenever I got a chance, especially "Bentley's Miscellany", whi... | James Glass Bertram | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'When, in the course of a year or two, we removed to the vicinity of Edinburgh, matters in respect of books brightened... | James Glass Bertram | Mrs Johnstone | The Schoolmaster | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the la... | James Glass Bertram | Samuel Warren | Diary of a late physician | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the la... | James Glass Bertram | Samuel Warren | Ten thousand a year | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'In Mr Tait's warehouse I read Hogg's "Shepherd's Calendar" and some of his poems also, while, at various times, many ... | James Glass Bertram | James Hogg | [poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the la... | James Glass Bertram | [n/a] | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |