What is recorded here
This black commemorative plaque records: 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.
Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar were Scottish printers who established Scotland's first printing press in Edinburgh; they are remembered for publishing "The Complaint of the Black Knight" in 1508, marking the beginning of printed literature in Scotland.
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