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A REPUTATION FOR EXCELLENCE
A History of the Edinburgh Printing Industry
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Portuus is a portable breviary (Scottish National Dictionary).
2 A printer by the name of John Story was active in Edinburgh during
the early 1520’s using the equipment of Chepman and Myllar.
Very little evidence of his career survives, although there is surviving
testimony to the difficulty of getting books printed in Scotland
around this time. See Annals of Scottish Printing.
3 Quoted from an official document stripping Tyler of his title
and awarding it to an Edinburgh bookseller by the name of Duncan
Mun, ‘whose studie and endeavour has been all his tyme for
the knowledge and science of Printing and so is become able and
qualified thairfor’. W.J. Couper, Scottish Rebel Printers.
4 These examples, and more, can be seen on p.5 of William T. Dobson’s
The Introduction of Printing into Edinburgh.
5 According to an Act of Parliament, dating from the publication
of Bassandyne’s Bible, it was a punishable offence for any
householder above a certain,, not particularly high, financial level
not to have a Bible in the house.
6 Quoted in the Scottish Typographical Circular from a meeting held
in October 1860.
7 Scottish Typographical Circular, 1 September 1869.
8 The invitation read: ‘For one evening let us lay aside care
or irksome duty, and come out with those we love best, and let us
look each other fairly in the face. In the matter of head we do
not much differ; at heart we are agreed. We need to have the bow
unstrung occasionally. Let us do so in company for once, and see
if we can help each other to a happy evening’.
9 He also wrote a series of articles on the subject of Friendly
Societies in general for the New Edinburgh Philosophical Society
in 1827—1828.
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Volume 1, published 1990
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