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noun

Stationer n.

A bookseller or publisher; formerly so called from his occupying a stand, or station, in the market place or elsewhere. (Obs.)

One who sells paper, pens, quills, inkstands, pencils, blank books, and other articles used in writing.

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"Stationer" Quotes from Famous Books

... to his shop one day, Mr. Snagsby, the law-stationer (in whose employ the dead man was, and who has always been kind to Jo when chance has thrown him in his way), descends to find a police constable holding a ragged boy by the arm. "Why, bless my heart," says ...

— Ten Boys from Dickens • Kate Dickinson Sweetser

... vulgar disguise of stucco, which converted the warm-toned bricks into commonplace colourless greyness. It was on one side of this street that the principal shops were, and Beth stood for some time gazing at a print in a stationer's window—a lovely little composition of waves lapping in gently towards a sheltered nook on a sandy beach. Beth, wafted there instantly, heard the dreamy murmur and felt the delicious freshness of the sea, yet the picture did ...

— The Beth Book - Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius • Sarah Grand

... de before her husband's surname, since the de cost nothing and gave "quality" to the name, signing herself "Victorina de los Reyes de De Espadana." This de was such a mania with her that neither the stationer nor her husband could get it out of her head. "If I write only one de it may be thought that you don't have it, you fool!" she ...

— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal

... we now use was not then to be had by going into a stationer's shop. Else he would have accomplished this in ...

— History of Astronomy • George Forbes

... you will see a few books. Tennyson in gilt. Volumes of the Temple Classics or Everyman. Hymn-books, Bibles. The latest cheap Shakespeare. Of new books no example except the brothers Hocking. The stationer will tell you that there is no demand for books; but that he can procure anything you specially want by return of post. He will also tell you that on the whole he makes no profit out of books; what trifle he captures on his meagre sales he loses on books unsold. He may inform you that his rival ...

— Books and Persons - Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 • Arnold Bennett

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