2-634-580 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Interior of Stationers' Hall, City of London, c1910 (1911). The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers (until 1937 the Worshipful Company of Stationers) is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Stationers' Company was formed as an organisation in 1403 and received a Royal Charter in 1557. It held a monopoly over the publishing industry and was officially responsible for setting and enforcing regulations until the enactment of the Statute of Anne in 1710. From London - The City, by Sir Walter Besant. [Adam & Charles Black, London, 1911]