Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers - History

The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Stationers' Company was founded in 1403; it received a Royal Charter in 1557. It held a monopoly over the publishing industry and was officially responsible for setting and enforcing copyright regulations until the passage of the Statute of Anne in 1709. Today, the Company mostly carries out ceremonial functions. Furthermore, it contributes to educational charities. All its members work in the book or allied trades. In the order of precedence of the ...

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In 1403 the Corporation of London approved the formation of a Guild of stationers. At this time stationers were either booksellers or limners. Booksellers sold manuscript books that they or their employees had copied. They also sold the writing materials that they used. Limners illustrated and decorated manuscripts. Printing gradually displaced manuscript production and by the time that the Guild received a royal charter of incorporation in 1557 it was in effect a Printers' Guild. In 1559 it became the 47th livery ...

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