The greater portion, however, of this foreign importation consisted of service-books, at least forty editions being sent over from abroad before 1501. From Venice were sent Breviaries and Missals, printed for the most part by Johannes de Landoia dictus Hertog. As we have said, the first edition of the _Sarum Breviary_ was printed at Cologne by an unknown printer, and the first edition of the _Sarum Missal_ at Basle by Wenssler about 1486. From Paris and Rouen came the greater number of _Horæ_, and such books as the _Legenda_, _Manuale_, and _Liber Festivalis_. It is impossible to enter here with any fulness into the history of the earliest stationers and the books printed abroad for sale in England. It is rather foreign to our present subject, but would well repay careful study. CHAPTER XI. THE SPREAD OF THE ART IN GREAT BRITAIN. The introduction of printing into Scotland did not take place till 1508, in which year a printer named Andrew Myllar set up his press in the Southgait at Edinburgh. At this time the countries of Scotland and France were in close business communications, and many Scotsmen sought employment on the Continent. In 1496 a certain David Lauxius, a native of Edinburgh, was in the employment of Hopyl, the Paris printer, as a press corrector, an employment often undertaken by men of learning. Lauxius afterwards became a schoolmaster at Arras, and is several times spoken of by Badius Ascensius in the prefatory letters which he prefixed to his grammars. Such books as were needed were sent over to Scotland from France, and the probable cause of the introduction of printing into the former country was the desire of William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen, to have his adaptation of the _Sarum Breviary_ for the use of Aberdeen produced under his own personal supervision. Two men were readily found to undertake the work; one, Walter Chepman, a wealthy merchant, who supplied the necessary capital; the other, Andrew Myllar, a bookseller, who had several times employed foreign presses to print books for him, and had himself been abroad on business expeditions. The books which had been printed for Myllar were, _Multorum vocabulorum equivocorum interpretatio magistri Johannis de Garlandia_, in 1505, and _Expositio sequentiarum secundum usum Sarum_, in 1506; both being without a printer’s name, but most probably from the press of P. Violette of Rouen.[37] [37] Dr. Dickson, relying on the authority of M. Claudin, has ascribed these books to the press of Lawrence Hostingue of Rouen. From the facsimiles which he gives it is clear that the types are not identical. The books should rather be ascribed to Pierre Violette, who used, as far as can be seen, the same type; and who also used in his _Expositio Hymnorum et Sequentiarum ad usum Sarum_, printed in 1507, the woodcut of a man seated at a reading desk, which is found on the title-page of Myllar’s _Garlandia_.