George Anderson, the first printer in the city, was admitted as Burgess and Guild Brother in Glasgow on 27 December 1638.
Scotland's Printing Heritage
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The first ever edition of The Scotsman, or Edinburgh Political and Literary Journal was produced on Saturday, January 25 1817, from premises in Edinburgh’s High Street. It was originally published weekly, and became a daily newspaper in 1850. The proprietors announced that their ‘first desire is to be honest, the second is to be useful’.
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