Phillips entered business life and gradually advanced to the position of head of the firm of Morton, Phillips & Company, stationers and printers, which business was established in 1869.
By 1501 the Company of Stationers was established, and it is highly probable that this was only the Brotherhood of Text-writers and Limners under the more general designation.
It does not surprise us to learn that the stationers did not thrive.
The best and largest books of the stationers were always of a theological nature.
We find a mention of the existence of the Company of Stationers of London in 1405.
Company of Stationers to supervise and control the publication of books.
The Act made registration in the Register Book of the Company of Stationers before publication a condition precedent to an action for the infringement of any book.
Provided that within twelve months after publication demand has been made to the publishers under the hand of the officer of the Company of Stationers or other person authorised thereto by the respective libraries.
Authors of books which have been registered at the Stationers Hall shall have the sole liberty of printing and reprinting such book for 14 years.
By 1629, the speeches of prominent members and the course of proceedings were copied bystationers and sold in a weekly news report.
The Company of Stationers had the authority accompanied by a constable to search all houses and shops where they knew or had "probable reason" to suspect books were being printed.
Only freemen of London who were members of the Company of Stationers could sell books.
Provided that Mr. Barker himselfe print the sayde Testaments at the lowest value by the direction of the Master and Wardens of the Company of Stationers for the tyme being.
See A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, ed.
Reasonable accuracy among the stationers was secured by a system of fines for errors, half of which went to the university, the other half being divided between the supervisor or head proof-reader and the informant who discovered the error.
Charming designs may be had from the stationers with blank spaces to be filled in by the person sending them.
The invitation is usually issued in the name of the hostess alone, and the most fashionable stationers are to-day printing cards that leave a blank space for the name of the person to be invited to be written in by the hostess.
Henry and Sealy Fourdrinier, the house above alluded to, who were at that period, and for several years afterwards, the most considerable stationers and paper-makers in Great Britain.
John and Joseph Williams, stationers in London, for an improved method of binding books of every description.
The white blotting paper sold by the stationers answers extremely well for filters in chemical experiments, provided it be previously washed with dilute muriatic acid, to remove some lime and iron that are generally present in it.
The ordinary steel pens that can be bought ready-made from stationers are fairly available for coarser writing and drawing; but for better work one must have much finer pens.
This paper is cheaper than the paper sold by stationers under the names of straw paper, etc.
At the beginning of the sixteenth century, we find the stationers involved in one of the many disputes between university and town, damaging alike to study and to business.
Companie of Stationers shall pay unto the said Thomas Buck two full third parts of the several prices they cost.
The London Stationers also took alarm and petitioned the Queen.
I went this morning to Earl Rivers, gave him joy of his new employment, and desired him to prefer my printer and bookseller to be stationers to his office.
Ben Tooke and my printer have desired me to make them stationers to the Ordnance, of which Lord Rivers is Master, instead of the Duke of Marlborough.
This morning I presented my printer and bookseller to Lord Rivers, to be stationers to the Ordnance; stationers, that's the word; I did not write it plain at first.
The stationers and other tradespeople in the hall were a privileged class, inasmuch as they were exempt from the pains and penalties relative to the license and regulation of the press.
The monopoly is now gone; almanacks have been forced into improvement by emulation; and the Stationers (naturally enough at the moment) are angry about it.
In 1556 the Company of Stationers was incorporated, and very extensive powers were granted in order that obnoxious books might be repressed.
The privilege of stationers is, in my opinion, a very great hinderance to the advancement of all humane learning[1380].
The priviledge ofstationers is (in my opinion) a very great hinderance to the advancement of all humane learning.
The same plenary powers of the Stationers were strengthened by an additional injunction, by which the government held the whole brotherhood with a closer grasp.
Complaint was made that the London Stationers had already begun to fail in the fulfilment of their agreement.
Hyde went up to London in this year to demand personally of the Company of Stationers the books which were due to the Library by Act of Parliament (1 James II, cap.
She set a wide difference between the gaieties of the sons of fancy stationers with a tidy bit coming in and such diversions as that to which her stepfather had once taken her, pigtail and all.
Why, his father was Mr. Merridew of Merridew and Fry's, the fancy stationers with branches everywhere, so Louie could judge for herself whether that meant a bit or not!
Lastly, he endeavoured to procure employment as a copyist, and applied to the lawyers and stationers about the Temple; but he could find no vacancy.
You will also be able, said he, to form some acquaintance there, and establish a correspondence withstationers and booksellers.
