The Chepman and Myllar Prints
Offer to Members:
Only £14.99/$27.95 (until 31 December 2008)
The Chepman and Myllar Prints, Edited by SALLY MAPSTONE:
Digitised facsimiles, with introduction, notes and
transcription, of the earliest printed texts produced in Scotland.
In 1508 the partnership of
Andrew Myllar and Walter Chepman brought printing to Scotland.
Their early publications included print works by
three of medieval
Scotland’s most celebrated
poets, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Walter Kennedy;
they also contain less well-known but important poems and
prose in Scots and in English by other writers. The prints
feature a wide variety of genres: romance; fable; advice to
princes; chivalric treatise; lyric; dream vision; along with
a classic example of the Scots genre of ‘flyting’, a
stylised but scurrilous exchange of poetic insults.
In celebration of the
anniversary, the Scottish Text Society, in association with
the National Library for Scotland, has
published a DVD of prints produced by Chepman and Myllar in
or close to 1508, containing digitised facsimiles of each of
the twenty printed items. Each facsimile is accompanied by a
headnote, explaining the print’s literary significance and
technical features, and a transcription. There is also an
introduction by the general editor, SALLY MAPSTONE, which
sets the Chepman and Myllar press within the context of
early sixteenth-century Scotland and Scottish book history.
The edition thus gives readers informative access to Scotland’s earliest texts; easily
navigable, it will become a vital teaching and research
tool.
Contributors: PRISCILLA
BAWCUTT, A.S.G. EDWARDS, JANET HADLEY WILLIAMS, RALPH
HANNA, LUUK HOUWEN, EMILY
LYLE, SALLY MAPSTONE, JOANNA MARTIN, NICOLE MEIER, RHIANNON
PURDIE
This DVD is offered to individual members of the Society at
the special price of £14.99 (or US$27.95) inclusive of VAT
(for UK members), and post and packing
until 31 December 2008. (The price for institutional members
is £25/ $47.95). Orders should be sent to The
Membership
Secretary, c/o Scottish Text Society, 27 George Square, Edinburgh
EH8 9LD
or via email at
membershipsecretary@scottishtextsociety.org.
You must quote your STS membership number in the
special instructions space to secure this special price.
The Scottish Text Society is a registered charity,
registered in
Scotland, number SCO2130
