Sentence examples for stationers from inspiring English sources

Since its formation in 1403 from the old fraternities of scriveners, limners, bookbinders, and stationers, it had sought to protect its members and regulate competition.

This system was in effect in late 15th-century Venice as well as in 16th-century England, where the London Stationers' Company achieved a monopoly on the printing of books and was regulated by the Court of Star Chamber.

Sir Thomas Bodley opened his famous library at Oxford in 1602, and in 1610 the Stationers' Company undertook to give it a copy of every book printed in England.

Relevant information must be sought in the published and unpublished records of stationers, printers, booksellers, and publishers and in other archival material.

With the growth in prominence of his press went his steady increase in prestige as a member, an officer, and later master, of the Stationers' Company (the guild for those in the book trade).

After serving as an apprentice to London publisher William Ponsonby, Blount in 1588 became a freeman of the Stationers' Company and opened a bookshop in London.

The book relates how the bishop established good relations with stationers and booksellers in England, France, Germany, and Italy by sending advance payments.

In 1403 the Stationers' Company of London appealed to the city for the right to have their own ordinances.

The benefit to the poor stationers was somewhat marginal and the monopoly and lack of foreign stimulus caused England to lag behind the Continent in standards of production.

Evidence from the same century indicates that the stationers were organized in craft guilds in the same way that other trades were organized.

In this attempt at control, an increasingly prominent part came to be played by the Stationers Companyy.