Scotland's Printing Heritage

Designer Bookbindings at the National Library of Scotland

As part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Designer Bookbinders are presenting an exhibition on contemporary bookbinding at the National Library of Scotland building on George IV Bridge building. More details and opening times on the National Library of Scotland’s website.

Did you know?

30 October 1577 Thomas Bassendyne died in Edinburgh on 30 October 1577. Together with Alexander Arbuthnot, he printed the first translation of the Bible in Scotland, known as the Bassendyne Bible. The New Testament, printed by Bassendyne, was completed first, and the Bible as a whole is known as ‘the Bassendyne Bible’.