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The complaint of the Black Knight
John Lydgate's poem "The complaint of the black knight", commonly attributed to Chaucer, was published in Edinburgh in 1508 by Walter Chepman and Andrew Myllar. The tale is written in Middle Scots and printed in black letter. It is the earliest dated book printed in Scotland, and the National Library of Scotland holds the only known surviving copy. You can find out more about Scotland’s earliest printed books here http://www.nls.uk/firstscottis