Stationers' Company

American  

noun

1. a company or guild of the city of London composed of booksellers, printers, dealers in writing materials, etc., incorporated in 1557.

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Stationers' Company British  

noun

1. a guild, established by Royal Charter from Queen Mary in 1557, composed of booksellers, printers, etc

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Example Sentences

Written with astonishing speed and intensity, the work was registered with the Stationers’ Company on 9 January 1624 and published without delay: rarely has such a dramatic affliction had such an immediate literary outcome.

From The Guardian • Dec. 4, 2017

Spoerer, Hans, block-books printed by, 25 Springinklee, Hans, illustrator, 183, 188 Stagninus, Bernardinus, his illustrated service-books, 195 Stanheim, Melchior, arbitrator on book-illustrating, 63, 103 Stationers’ Company, 221 sq.,

From Fine Books by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)

Charles II in 1684 renewed the charter of the Stationers' Company, approved its register, and confirmed to proprietors of books "the sole right, power, and privilege and authority of printing, as has been usual heretofore."

From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Bowker, Richard Rogers

Cuthbert Burbie, who, like Shakespeare's earliest London friend, Richard Field, was a member of the Stationers' Company, was the publisher, and the printer was one William White of "Cow Lane near Holborn Conduit."

From William Shakespeare His Homes and Haunts by Forestier, A. (Amédée)

Being a member of the Stationers' Company, the master, wardens, and court of assistants of that company proceeded to Mansion House, where they were met by the new lord mayor and his sheriffs.

From Dickens' London by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)