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Worshipful Company of Stationers

Categories: Liveries & Guilds

Initially a Guild of Stationers - booksellers who copied, decorated and sold manuscript books. By about 1650 the printers had largely taken over from the manuscript boys. In 1557 they received a Royal Charter of Incorporation.

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Worshipful Company of Stationers

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Stationers' War Memorial

A beautiful, hand-crafted plaque - not just the frame, the gold lettering has...

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Worshipful Company of Stationers

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Stationers' War Memorial

A beautiful, hand-crafted plaque - not just the frame, the gold lettering has...

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Wynkyn de Worde

The sun-burst was part of de Worde's printer's device - printed at the front ...

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Innholders' Hall

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1 memorial
The Worshipful Company of Loriners

The Worshipful Company of Loriners

Loriners make and sell bits, bridles, spurs, stirrups, saddle trees and the minor metal items of a horse's harness. The company was incorporated in 1711. Women were not admitted until 1989 - bette...

Group, Commerce, Liveries & Guilds

2 memorials
Frank Nathaniel Steiner

Frank Nathaniel Steiner

Frank Nathaniel Steiner was Chairman of the City of London Planning & Communications Committee in 1973. 1973-1984 Clerk to the Company of Gardeners.  From The Brotherhood: The Secret World of...

Person, Law, Liveries & Guilds, Politics & Administration

1 memorial