Records, preserves & shares Scotland's printing heritage
Latest news
OTD 6 July 1907
6 July 2025
On 6 July 1907 the Strathearn Herald in Crieff was printed for the first time on the newly-installed … [Read More...]
OTD 11 June 1825
11 June 2025
11 June 1825 The first issue of The Glasgow Looking Glass was published by John Watson in Glasgow. … [Read More...]
Harry McIntosh of Speedspools
9 June 2025
The Trust is sorry to annouce that Harry McIntosh of Speedspools, Edinburgh, known for his … [Read More...]
Museum displays in Scotland
- Biggar Museum Trust
- Callendar House
- Edward Clark Collection at Edinburgh Napier University
- National Museums Scotland, Printing Collections
- Robert Smail’s Printing Works, Innerleithen
- Wick Society
- Writers’ Museum, City of Edinburgh Museums
Online resources
- Aberdeen Breviary online
- Bartholomew archive
- Bartholomew family website
- Boxcar Press – Little letterpress classes on video
- Cossar Web-Fed Flatbed Press
- Edinburgh City of Print image stream
- Edinburgh City of Print YouTube channel
- Edward Raban — Aberdeen’s first printer
- Film of the last ‘hot-metal’ edition of the New York Times
- Glasgow University Press
- HarperCollins 200 years of books
- History of the Fifeshire Advertiser
- Island of San Serriffe
- John Watson, A lifetime in printing
- Letterpress printing in the 1960s
- MacLehose
- Maker Press
- Online exhibitions at the National Print Museum, Ireland
- Photogravure website
- Printers’ Collection at the Marx Memorial Library, London
- Scotland’s first printed books
- Scottish Book Trade Index
- Scottish bookbindings
- Spread of printing in Scotland
- Timperley’s Dictionary of printers and printing
- Typefoundry
- Valentines, Dundee — archive listing
Small presses and print studios
- Chepman and Myllar Press
- Dundee Contemporary Arts Print Studio
- Edinburgh College of Art
- Edinburgh Printmakers Studio and Gallery
- Glasgow Press
- Glasgow Print Studio
- Glasgow School of Art
- Highland Print Studio
- Hunter Press, East Calder
- Pathfoot Press, University of Stirling
- Pen-y-Coe Press, Penicuik
- Periscope Press, Inverness
- Piccolo Press
- Quarto Press / Press Here
Useful sites
- Archives Hub
- Association of European Printing Museums
- Briar Press
- British Book Trade Index
- British Letterpress
- British Printing Society
- Firms out of business
- Metaltype website
- Oxford Guild of Printers
- Print Scotland
- Printing Historical Society
- Society for the History of Authorship Reading and Publishing
- St Brides Foundation and Library, London
- The Printing Charity
SPRAT is grateful for support from The Watson Foundation