Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- First window. Walter Chepman (c. 1471 – 1528) was born circa 1471 in Ayr, Scotland and moved to Edinburgh in 1493, where he pursued a career as a merchant alongside Andrew Halyburton. He concurrently began his career as a notary to the royal household; by 1496, he held the royal signet, and later he received a suit of livery from King James IV. In 1507, Chepman entered a partnership with another prominent Edinburgh figure, Andro Myllar, and together they were granted a royal patent to establish the first printing press in Scotland. In the next year, Chepman and Myllar published the first Scottish book The Maying or Disport of Chaucer. Following publications include The Golden Targe, Orpheus and Eurydice, The Want of Wise Men, and Brevarium Aberdonese; many of these books belong to a series referred to as the "Chepman and Myllar Prints." Chepman continued to print in Edinburgh and held various political offices, both for the city and for James IV, until his death in 1528. Chepman's mark in the Vassar Library is composed of the intricately interlaced initials, W.C. In his full printing device, the monogram appeared on a shield, presented by two sylvan creatures, a woman and man. This imagery recalls the device of French printer Philippe Pigouchet.