Walter Chepman

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Walter Chepman (died 1532) was a Scottish merchant, notary and civil servant active in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Chepman served at the Scottish court during the reigns of James IV and James V. In partnership with Androw Myllar he established Scotland's first printing press in 1508. Chepman was also a significant patron of Saint Giles' Kirk in Edinburgh.

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On 4 April 1508 in the Cowgate, Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar completed The Complaint of the Black Knight on Scotland's first printing press.

Blackfriars Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom where they printed Scotland's first book (1508)