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

Penalties were provided, which could not be exacted unless the books were registered with the Stationers' Company, and which must be sued for within three months after the offence.

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

The severity of his satire, and the obviousness of the allusions, caused two of his works to be burnt, first publicly, and then in the hall kitchen of the Stationers' Company, in October 1600.

From Books Condemned to be Burnt by Farrer, James Anson

The great treasure of the Stationers' Company is its series of registers of works entered for publication.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

A marble bust of him was placed by public subscription in the Council Chamber of that town, and two scholarships, bearing his name, were founded in the school of the Stationers’ Company.

From The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress by Jackson, Mason