Printing was one of the themes for Doors Open Days in September 2008 .
Hot metal and cold print: the theme for Local History Week, 1926 April 2008 was printing and newspapers.
Aberdeen Museums & Libraries
Local Word and Image: 500 Years of Printing in Scotland. Provost Skene’s House, Aberdeen. 17 November 2007 16 November 2008.
Exhibition of prints gifted by Peacock Visual Arts to Aberdeen Art Gallery.
Aberdeen: Central Library
Wayzgoose: excursions, sports and socials in the printing industry. Central Library, Rosemount Viaduct, Aberdeen, 1 31 May 2008. Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIRE) touring exhibition.
Rival voices: history of the Aberdeen Press. Exhibition telling the story of Aberdeen Journals, also featuring their rivals. Local Studies Department, Central Library, Rosemount Viaduct, Aberdeen, 22 April 31 May 2008.
Aberdeenshire: Duff House, near Banff
Book of the Month from the eighteenth century Dunimarle Library. Duff House, Banff, all year.
Angus: Montrose Library
Wayzgoose: excursions, sports and socials in the printing industry. Montrose Library, 214 High Street Montrose, 10 28 March 2008. Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIRE) touring exhibition.
Ayrshire: Dick Institute, Kilmarnock
The Kilmarnock edition, South Museum, The Dick Institute, 1 Elmbank Avenue, Kilmarnock. Display of a working replica of the printing press used by publisher John Wilson to print Robert Burns First Edition (or Kilmarnock Edition) in 1786.
Printing, North Museum Gallery, The Dick Institute, 1 Elmbank Avenue, Kilmarnock. An exhibition of East Ayrshire Council Arts and Museum collections relating to the history of printing. 26 Feb 26 May 2008.
Ink, Main Gallery, The Dick Institute, 1 Elmbank Avenue, Kilmarnock. Highlighting the 500th anniversary of printing, Ink makes reference to the way in which we make marks, and the use of repetition and reproduction of those marks by hand or by machine. 5 April 24 May 2008.
Borders: Abbotsford House
Exhibitions of Scottish imprints from Sir Walter Scott’s library, 17 March until 31 October 2008. Scott’s library contains some early and rare Scottish imprints and covers the period to 1832. Abbotsford House, Melrose, Roxburghshire
Borders: Innerleithen
Robert Smail’s Printing Works (National Trust for Scotland), 79 High Street, Innerleithen. Living History Tours of the fully operational Victorian printing works on the last Saturday of the month until the end of October 2008.
Borders: Kelso
Work in print: an exhibition at Kelso Town Hall, Kelso, during St James Fair, 6 7 September 2008.
Work in Print, Kelso Library during Local History Week, 21 26 April 2008.
Borders: Melrose, Borders Book Festival 2122 June 2008
Hands-on workshops run by Robert Smail’s: Print a bookplate printers devils wanted! Traditional letterpress printing / Make a mini notebook bookbinding.
Borders: Peebles
Read all about it: the National Library of Scotland’s newspaper exhibition. January to March 2008, Tweeddale Museum and Gallery, Chambers Institute, High Street, Peebles.
Borders: Scottish Borders Council Museums and Galleries
The Power of the Press: 500 years of printing in Scotland, touring exhibition and learning project for schools.
Old Gala House, Scott House, Galashiels, 22 March-24 May.
Harestanes Visitor Centre, Ancrum, Jedburgh, 5 July-25 August.
Coldstream Museum, 12 Market Square, Coldstream, 30 August-24 October.
Tweeddale Museum and Gallery, Chambers Institute, High Street, Peebles, 1 November-January 2009.
Hawick Museum, Wilton Lodge Park, Hawick, January-May 2009.
Caithness: Wick Heritage Society
Permanent display, which includes a brief history and timeline of printing in Caithness 18252008, a printing press and other artefacts, and a display related to the publication of the John O’Groat Journal from 1832 to date.
Dumfries: Ewart Library
Read all about it: the National Library of Scotland’s newspaper exhibition. 1 13 May 2008. Ewart Library, Catherine Street, Dumfries.
Dumfries: Gracefield Arts Centre
Confluence: exhibition at Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, May 24 June 28 2008 before touring a number of galleries in Scotland. Collaboration by four artists Alfons Bytautas, Norman McBeath, George Macpherson and Bill Scot.
Dundee: Dundee Central Library
Dei Donum celebrating 500 years of printing in Scotland. Exhibition at Dundee Dundee Central Library, Dundee Central Library, The Wellgate, Dundee, 31 March to 26 April 2008.
Dundee: Dundee Contemporary Arts
First Edition: 500 Years of Print in Scotland. Public day of printing, with reading from the poem after 7pm on 4 April 2008. Event based creatively on the original first printed document in Scotland, John Lydgate’s poem The Complaint of the Black Knight, printed on 4 April 1508. Artist printmakers Scott Hudson and Paul Liam Harrison, in collaboration with designer Andy Rice, produced a series of screenprints based on the original texts and print devices. Visual Research Centre, University of Dundee, Dundee Contemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate, Dundee.
Dundee: Friends of Dundee City Archives
Dundee in print. Day conference on 19 April 2008 in the Glasite Hall, St. Andrew’s Church, King Street, Dundee.
Dundee: Tayside Medical History Museum
Medical Impressions the history of printing in medical education in Scotland. Tayside Medical History Museum, Medical School Foyer, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee. 28 March 4 October.
Dundee: University of Dundee Library
Predicaments in Prints: caring for our printed heritage: exhibition of printed matter conserved by the Book and Paper Conservation Studio. Tower Foyer Gallery, University of Dundee, 12 June 26 July 2008.
Dundee: University of Dundee Library
Artistic Impressions: print in art, from etchings and screenprints to limited edition artists books. 11 April 31 May 2008. Main Library, University of Dundee, Smalls Wynd, Dundee. Centre for Artists Books Open Afternoon, 23 May, as part of the Artistic Impressions exhibition in the main University Library.
Edinburgh: 4 April Printing Roadshow
Printing roadshow, sponsored by Heidelberg UK,on Edinburgh’s Princes Street beside the National Galleries. Free demonstration of a modern lithographic printing press, printing souvenir posters to take away. Friday 4 April and Saturday 5 April 2008.
Edinburgh: 12th Medieval & Renaissance Scottish Language & Literature International Conference
The Twelfth Triennial Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature, June 30 to July 4, 2008. Conference hosted by the University of Edinburgh’s School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures.
Edinburgh: Advocates Library
Law and printing in Scotland exhibition highlighting the link between the Scottish printing trade and the practice of law in Scotland. Parliament Hall, Parliament Square, Edinburgh, 11 August 27 September 2008.
Edinburgh: Celebratory Dinner
On 4 April 2008, marking the 500th anniversary of the printing of John Lydgate’s Complaint of the Black Knight, the Centre for the History of the Book at Edinburgh University hosted a dinner in the Playfair Library Hall, University of Edinburgh. The Guest of Honour was Magnus Linklater.
Edinburgh: Chepman & Myllar Press
The only working Monotype installation in Scotland, and a private press, celebrating 40 years in business. Visitors and demonstrations by appointment.
Edinburgh: CILIP Rare Books Group Annual Conference
Imprenting within our Realme: books from Scotland. The annual study conference of CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group, held at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1012 September 2008.
Edinburgh: City of Edinburgh Council
A commemorative plaque was unveiled on 4 April 2008 in Edinburgh’s Cowgate near the site of Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar’s printing press. The plaque is sited at the corner of Blackfriars Street and the Cowgate.
Edinburgh: City of Edinburgh Libraries
Scottish Popular Press: a display on the development of printing in Scotland illustrated by examples from the popular press through the ages, 1 September 31 October 2008.
Workshops: Adult Printing Workshop with Tessa Asquith-Lamb; and Inky Fingers! family printing day. Edinburgh Central Library, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh Bibliographical Society
Lectures in the 2007/2008 series related to the theme of printing in Scotland over the last 500 years.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh College of Art
Edinburgh College of Art marked the opening of its new print workshop facilities with Open Here, an exhibition celebrating printmaking in Scotland. eca Main Building Foyer and printworkshop, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, 412 October 2008; and Open Here… weekend workshops, 45, and 1112 October 2008.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh International Book Festival
The Edinburgh Book Festival programme included bookmaking and printing workshops for children and families. 925 August 2008, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh Printmakers
Gallery 1: Velvet: group exhibition of prints by artists using mezzotint. Stuart Duffin, Nan Mulder, Judith Rothchild and Kouki Tsuritani. 24 May 5 July 2008; Galleries 2 and 3: Akram Rahmanzadeh, imprint. Exhibition of woodcuts, drypoints and monoprints. 24 May 5 July 2008; Open Day: Saturday 14 June 2008; All Galleries: Exhibition of new prints by Chad McCail commissioned by Edinburgh Printmakers, 19 July 6 September 2008.
Printmaking courses: Summer school, Weekend courses, evening classes, and taster classes. Edinburgh Printmakers, Workshop and Gallery, 23 Union Street, Edinburgh.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh’s Festival of Libraries
Week long programme of events across the city, 814 November 2008, starting on Saturday 8 November with the Edinburgh Libraries Fair, with workshops, talks, exhibitions, performances and tours, including guided walks based on the Trust’s Edinburgh Printing Trail leaflet, available through the online shop.
Edinburgh: Heriot-Watt University
Wayzgoose: excursions, sports and socials in the printing industry. The Library, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton Campus, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, 15 29 February 2008. Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIRE) touring exhibition.
Edinburgh: Museum of Edinburgh
The People Behind the Books the book trade in Scotland: exhibition charting the history of the people who worked in the various industries involved in the creation of books and other printed material in Scotland, and documenting the working lives of individuals involved in book production. Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIRE) in association with the Museum of Edinburgh, 142 Canongate, Royal Mile, Edinburgh, 13 September 2008 31 March 2009.
Edinburgh Napier University
Cities of Literature, Cities of Reading: one-day symposium organised by the Scottish Centre for the Book in partnership with the Scottish Arts Council and Edinburgh City of Literature, Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh Napier University, 20 June 2008.
Wayzgoose: excursions, sports and socials in the printing industry. Library, Merchiston Campus Colinton Road, Napier University, Edinburgh, 718 January 2008. Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIRE) touring exhibition.
Bound for Glory the Bible as Book in Scotland: exhibition celebrating the significant role that the Bible played in the development of printing and publishing. It is the only book that has remained continually in print over the past five hundred years. Exhibits drawn from the wider Edward Clark Collection of rare books. Library, Merchiston Campus, Napier University, until December 14, 2007.
Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland
On 4 April 2008, the original of John Lydgate’s The complaint of the Black Knight, printed by Chepman and Myllar, 4 April 1508 was on view to the public. The digital version can be viewed on the National LIbrary’s website.
Spread of Scottish Printing: web feature, listing all cities, towns, and other places in Scotland with a printing press before 1900, and identifying their first presses.
Display of engraving tools from the Bartholomew collections, Map Library, National Library of Scotland, 9 Salisbury Place, Edinburgh.
Imprentit: 500 Years of the Scottish Printed Word: exhibition showing the role print has played in people’s lives, whilst showing off the remarkable breadth and depth of the NLS collections, 27 June 12 October, National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh.
Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland
Printed wishes: making your own beautifully printed postcard to send to a loved one or friend, Hawthornden Court, 1214 February and 2123 October 2008, National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh.
Labels marking 500 years of printing in Scotland were put by relevant objects in the museum.
Edinburgh: National Trust for Scotland
Lasting Impressions the National Trust for Scotland and the printed word: exhibition based on items from Robert Smail’s Printing Works at Wemyss House, 28 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, 1 August until 8 November 2008. Hands-on activities for visitors, drop-in printing and bookbinding demonstrations and a series of talks on printing, paper conservation and the Trust’s libraries and archives.
Edinburgh: Publishing Scotland
Publishing Scotland in collaboration with Edinburgh University and Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature hosted a massive Book Swap on 1 April 2008 at Adam House, 3 Chambers Street, Edinburgh. Scottish publishers donated books of all kinds to get the event started.
Edinburgh: Queen Margaret University
Wayzgoose: excursions, sports and socials in the printing industry. The Library, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 4 15 July 2008. Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIRE) touring exhibition.
Edinburgh: Royal Botanic Garden
Exhibition displaying horticultural/natural history books printed in Scotland. 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, May and June 2008.
Edinburgh: Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Printing and medicine: the impact of print on five centuries of western medicine. Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 9 Queen Street Edinburgh, April October 2008. Digitised items from the library’s collections can be viewed online.
Edinburgh: Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Written on the body exhibition at the Suregon’s Hall Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, August-December 2008.
Edinburgh: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Artists Books in Focus. Dean Gallery Reading Room, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 75 Belford Road, Edinburgh, 4 September; 2 October; 13 November 2008.
Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Portraits of individuals linked to the printing trade on show. Autumn 2008.
Edinburgh: Scottish Poetry Library
In a Different Light, exhibition of new hand-bound books, cards and screen-prints from Julie Johnstone’s Essence Press imprint, 19 April Saturday 19 July 2008.
Embracing the Ephemeral: a practical workshop with Julie Johnstone, editor of Essence Press, creating small book forms and cards, 14 June 2008.
The Space of the Page: exhibition drawing on the Scottish Poetry Library’s extensive twentieth century collections, 26 September 20 December 2008.
By Leaves We Live: a celebration of art and poetry publishing. Annual one-day fair, 27 September 2008. Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crichton’s Close, Canongate, Edinburgh.
Edinburgh: UNESCO City of Literature
Jekyll and Hyde: the graphic novel discussion/workshop with Cam Kennedy (artist) and Alan Grant (writer), 23rd February 2008. National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh.
Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
Centre for the History of the Book, series of seminars.
Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Library
Website feature of the Aberdeen Breviary of 1510.
Edinburgh: Writers Museum
An electric shock of delight: Walter Scott and the Waverley novels, exhibition centred on Sir Walter Scott and the Waverley Press at the Writers Museum. Lady Stair’s Close, Edinburgh, 19 July 2008 3 January 2009.
Falkirk: Callendar House and Park Gallery
Winter Warmth returned with an exhibition to mark the 500th anniversary of print in Scotland, 1 November 2008 3 January 2009, showcasing the diverse aspects of contemporary print-making and the use of printing in applied arts and crafts. The Park Gallery & Large Gallery, Callendar House. Callendar House has areas taking visitors back in time to the early 19th century, including a printmakers workshop and working printing press.
Glasgow: Mitchell Library
Mitchell Treasure of the Month for April 2008: Blind Harry’s Wallace. The earliest Scottish printing to be found in the Mitchell Library, consisting of 12 fragmentary pages of Henry the Minstrel’s poem on William Wallace printed by Chepman and Myllar in 1508. Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow.
The Herald 225 years, 17832008: a celebration of Scotland’s leading quality newspaper, August-September 2008, Main Hall, Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow.
Guid, Black Prent: the Mitchell celebrates 500 years of Printing in Scotland. From Chapbooks to Dabbities a rare glimpse of Scotland’s past in print. August- December 2008, Old Glasgow Room, Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow.
City Wide Family Quiz celebrating 500 years of printing with prizes to be won.
Design a Book Plate: get arty in the Mitchell prizes to be won and an opportunity to have your work displayed in the Mitchell.
Glasgow: Glasgow Metropolitan College
Printing roadshow, sponsored by Heidelberg UK, at Glasgow Metropolitan College, 60 North Hanover Street, 3 April 2008. Free demonstration of a modern lithographic printing press, printing souvenir posters to take away.
Exhibition at Glasgow Metropolitan College, the only college in Scotland providing printing education, at North Hanover Street, Glasgow during their student’s exhibition week commencing 2 June 2008, comprising a number of exhibits of students work with a printing theme.
Glasgow: Glasgow School of Art
Out of Print featured the works of the research cluster of the same name at GSA. 24 March-19 April 2008. Atrium Gallery, GSA, Foulis Building, 167 Renfrew Street Glasgow. The scope of the work from Edwin Pickstone, Andy Stark, Marc Baines, Steve Rigley, and Paul Stickley moves from the typographic elements and traditions of letterpress through comic books, landscape photography and international graphic foraging, through to the interface between digital media, optics and colour theory.
Glasgow: Glasgow Women’s Library
Making our (Book) Marks: a beginner’s course to create personalised designs for our own book collections. Course, run in collaboration with the Glasgow Print Studio: working with an experienced printmaker, participants were shown how to design and print their own individual ex-libris. Start date: August 2008. Glasgow Women’s Library, 81 Parnie Street, Glasgow.
Glasgow: Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow
Scottish imprints from the College Library: medical, botanical and local history books on display in the College Library, 12 May 23 May 2008. College Library, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 232242 St Vincent Street, Glasgow.
Glasgow: Tron Theatre
Display of work by Glasgow School of Art’s Designer in Residence for Letterpress, Edwin Pickstone, in the Victorian Bar of the Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, Glasgow.
Glasgow: University of Glasgow Library
In Aedibus Academicis: the Glasgow University Press: display in the Special Collections showcase at Glasgow University Library, Hillhead Street, Glasgow, G12 8QE. From mid May until the end of August. A web exhibition with the same title, explores in more depth the work of printers associated and appointed by the University of Glasgow, from the first book printed in Glasgow by George Anderson in 1638 through to the last Glasgow University Press, the Maclehose Company.
Highland: Inverness Library
Clò Trom Gaelic Printing in the Highlands, 17781901 or Clò Trom Clò-bhualadh sa Ghàidhlig air a Ghàidhealtachd, 17781901. Exhibition at Inverness Library on books printed in Inverness and other Highland towns in Gaelic (and English), also covering the output of Charles Fraser Mackintosh (d.1901), prolific local historian and Gaelic speaker. Summer 2008 in Inverness Library, Farraline Park, Inverness.
Moray: Elgin Library
Read all about it: the National Library of Scotland’s newspaper exhibition. 17 May 6 June 2008. Elgin Library, Cooper Park, Elgin, Moray.
Perth
From Pen to Print to Pixels, the Scottish Records Association’s Annual Conference, was held in Perth Concert Hall on 21 November 2008. The conference focused on the records relating to printing and publishing in Scotland.
Perth: A K Bell Library
Printing in Perth: exhibition on the local printers/publishers the Morison family in the A K Bell Library during March. A K Bell Library, York Place, Perth.
Local Studies and 500 years of printing: talk to the Friends of the Archive, 28 February 2008. A K Bell Library Theatre.
Read all about it, the National Library of Scotland’s newspaper exhibition, 12 June to 31 July 2008. A K Bell Library, York Place, Perth.
Perthshire: Press Here, Coupar Angus
Press Here a small traditional letterpress workshop. Visitors are welcome but please contact in advance to arrange a visit.
Perthshire: Innerpeffray Library
To celebrate the 500th anniversary of printing in Scotland the Library displayed selected items from all five centuries, including a huge tome printed in 1681, by David Lindsay of Edinburgh and Perth, Laws of Parliament from King James the First to King Charles the Second, and a little book The Laws & Acts made in the First Parliament of our Most High and Dread Sovereign James VII, printed by Perth’s first printer Robert Fairbairn in 1731.
Shetland: Shetland Museum and Archives
Printing: a display of items of local printing and some printing artefacts. 25 July 23 October 2008. Shetland Museum and Archives, Hay’s Dock, Hay’s Dock, Lerwick, Shetland.
St Andrews: University of St Andrews
Exhibition exploring the history of printing in Fife. Exhibits ranged from the first book printed in St Andrews in 1552 to the products of a contemporary private press. A programme of events and activities accompanied the exhibition. 10 October 18 December 2008, Gateway Galleries, North Haugh, St Andrews.
Stirling: Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum
Publishing Scotland: Eneas Mackay, Stirling 1 December 200716 April 2008, Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum, Dumbarton Road, Stirling. Exhibition focusing on the press of Eneas Mackay, father and son, which operated in Stirling c1880-1943 and became the Stirling Observer Press. Booklet, and events programme.
Stirling: Tolbooth
Monument: an exhibition by David Bellingham at the Changing Room in the Tolbooth, Jail Wynd, Stirling. The exhibition consisted of bound copies of the Stirling Journal and Advertiser running from 1852 to 1968, representing over 100 years of continuous publishing. 13 September 4 October 2008.
David Bellingham also launched Fresh fruit and tables, a new book of texts and drawings, published by Changing Room to coincide with the Off the page Book Festival in Stirling.
SPRAT is grateful for support from The Watson Foundation