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Chepman and Myllar Press
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The Chepman and Myllar Press was the first printing press to be established in Scotland.[1]
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The press was founded in 1508 in Edinburgh by Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar, both burgesses of the Scottish capital. The two partners operated under a charter of King James IV issued in 1507 which gave them a monopoly in printed books within Scotland.[2]
Very few products of the press are preserved today. Those that have survived largely intact are nine chapbooks of vernacular literature known collectively as The Chepman and Myllar Prints[3] and a Latin religious text known as The Aberdeen Breviary.[4] Fragments of two other publications also exist. These were editions of The Wallace and The Buke of the Howlat.
The press seems to have had a brief existence. The earliest surviving example of its work dates to 1508[3] and the latest to 1510.[4]
Chepman and Myllar's press is also referred to as The Southgait Press.