Career
In 1725, Ged successfully made a cast of a type page on alloy similar to that used for the manufacture of type, thus producing a stereotype. Ged was unable to interest the printers of Edinburgh in his invention and therefore went to London, where he entered into partnership with William Fenner and Thomas James. In 1731 he obtained a contract for printing Bibles and prayer books for Cambridge University, but only two of the prayer books were ever completed, and were the first works printed entirely from stereotype. Because of the opposition of rival compositors and the dishonesty of his partners, Ged was no more successful in London than he had been in Edinburgh, and in 1733 he returned to Scotland.