Scotland's Printing Heritage

OTD 4 April 1508

Scotland’s first printers, Walter Chepman and Andro Myllar, completed printing John Lydgate’s poem The Complaint of the Black Knight, at their press in Edinburgh’s Old Town.

Did you know?

Andrew Foulis was born on 23 November 1712. With his brother Robert, he founded the Foulis Press, printer to the University of Glasgow. The Foulis Press was known for the high quality of the books it produced.