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

Nor had he abandoned his connexion with the book trade, and in 1578 he was admitted a freeman of the Stationers’ Company.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various

In fact, till the Stationers' Company made the sale of books or printed matter a separate industry, the typographer was his own binder and vendor.

From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Hazlitt, William Carew

The Stationers' Company was interested only in protecting its members from prosecution and from competition.

From An Introduction to Shakespeare by MacCracken, H. N.

In this history of the progress of the press in our country, the Stationers’ Company now appears.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac