Passing north of the Tweed, where the most formidable competitors of the London printers now abide, we find the first Scottish press at work at Edinburgh in 1508. In September of the previous year Andrew Myllar, a bookseller who had gained some experience of printing at Rouen, and Walter Chapman, a merchant, had been granted leave to import a press, chiefly that they might print an Aberdeen Breviary, which duly appeared in 1509-10. The books which anticipated it in 1508 were a number of thin quartos, _The Maying or Disport of Chaucer_, dated 4 April, the _Knightly Tale of Golagros and Gawane_, dated 8 April, the _Porteous of Noblenes_, "translated out of franche in scottis be Maistir Andrew Cadiou," dated 20 April, and eight undated pieces, three of them by Dunbar (_The Goldyn Targe_, _The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy_, and the _Twa Marrit Wemen and the Wedo_, with other poems), the others being the _Ballad of Lord Barnard Stewart_, _Orpheus and Eurydice_, the _Buke of Gude Counsale_, _Sir Eglamoure of Artoys_, and _A Gest of Robyn Hode_. All these have survived (some of them much mutilated) in a single volume, and it is at the reader's pleasure to decide whether they represent the harvest of some careful person who bought up all Chapman and Myllar's fugitive pieces, or are merely the remnants of a much larger output. The Aberdeen Breviary, which the printers were encouraged to produce by protection against the importation of Sarum books from England or abroad, is really handsomely printed in black and red. At the end of one of the four or five copies of it now known is an addendum, the _Officium Compassionis Beatae Virginis_ (commemorated on the Wednesday in Holy Week), which bears the colophon "Impressum Edinburgi per Johannem Story nomine & mandato Karoli Stule," which Scottish bibliographers assign to about 1520. A fragment of a _Book of the Howlat_ may belong to the same period. Thus although Scottish writers, such as John Vaus and Hector Boece of Aberdeen, had to send their books to France to be printed, it is possible that presses were at work in Edinburgh or elsewhere in Scotland, of which nothing is now known. The next printer of whom we have certain information is Thomas Davidson, who in February, 1541 (1542), produced a handsome edition of _The New Actis and Constitutionis of Parliament maid be the Rycht Excellent Prince Iames the Fift_. This was his only dated book, but he issued also a fine edition of _The hystory and croniklis of Scotland_, translated by "Johne Bellenden, Archdene of Murray, chanon of Ros," from the Latin of Hector Boece, and some smaller works.