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STATIONERY , a See also:term embracing all the various articles sold by " stationers," who were originally booksellers having " stations " or stands in markets, near churches or other buildings for the See also:sale of their goods (see See also:BOOKSELLING for the further See also:history of the word). The stationers were formed into a gild in 1403, the See also:Livery See also:Company not being incorporated till 1556. At the See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall of the company in See also:London, " Stationers' Hall," is kept a See also:book for the See also:registration of copyrights (see See also:COPYRIGHT). The " Stationery See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
Office " is a See also:British See also:government See also:department which supplies stationery to See also:parliament and the government offices and generally controls the See also:printing required by them.
Under the name of stationery are now included all See also:writing materials and implements, together with the numerous appliances of the See also:desk and of See also:mercantile and commercial offices.
The See also:principal articles and operations of the stationery See also:trade are dealt with under such headings as See also:BOOKBINDING; COPYING See also:MACHINES; See also:INK; See also:LITHOGRAPHY; See also:PAPER; See also:PEN; and See also:PENCIL.
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