Androw Myllar was the first Scottish printer. Little is known about his life. He is known to have been a bookseller from at least 1503 and to have solicited the printing of at least two books in 1505 and 1506, most likely in Rouen. On 15 September 1507, Myllar, together with Walter Chepman, was granted a patent by James IV for establishing a printing press in Scotland. They established their print shop in Edinburgh and on 4 April 1508 they issued the first book known to have been printed in Scotland, The Complaint of the Black Knight. Nothing of his life after 1508 is known and there is no evidence that he was involved with the printing of the Aberdeen Breviary in 1510 which was financed by Chepman and was the main reason for the introduction of the printing press to Scotland.
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