A campaign has been launched to promote Edinburgh as a world-leading City of Print under plans to celebrate a 500-year history of the printing and publishing trade in the capital.
The archive, charting the rise and fall of an industry that supported more than 7,000 jobs in the city at its peak, has been created following more than nine years of intensive research. Thousands of documents, photographs, books, artworks, company records, and old machinery have been brought together for the City of Print collection.
The archive reveals how Edinburgh led the way in the production of printed material; books, newspapers, journals, diaries, calendars, greetings cards, wrapping paper and stationery.
The City of Print campaign, is being promoted at museums, libraries and arts centres throughout the capital, and is the result of a major collaboration between the City of Edinburgh Museums and the Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIRE). City of Print is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Museum Galleries Scotland.
Checkout City of Print for more details or contact sapphire@napier.ac.uk
