Publishing Firsts
- The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1768–81)
- The first English textbook on surgery(1597)
- The first modern pharmacopaedia, William Cullen (1776). The book became 'Europe’s principal text on the classification and treatment of disease'. His ideas survive in the terms nervous energy and neuroses (a word that Cullen coined).
- The first postcards and picture postcards in the UK
- The first eBook from a UK administration (March 2012). Scottish Government publishes 'Your Scotland, Your Referendum'.
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“While you continue to grow fatter and richer publishing your nauseating confectionery, I shall become a mole, digging here, rooting there, stirring up the whole rotten mess where life is hard, raw and ugly.”
—Norman Reilly Raine (1895–1971)