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unusual facts about stationer



Causton

Richard Causton, 1st Baron Southwark PC, DL (1843–1929), English stationer and Liberal politician

Donald Banks

Banks was born in Guernsey on 31 March 1891, the son of Thomas Brownsort Banks, a stationer, and Margaret Elizabeth (née Roebuck).

Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai

Born in Paris as the son of a stationer, he became a bookseller's clerk, and first attracted attention with the first part of his novel Les Amours du chevalier de Faublas (Paris, 1787; English translation illustrated by etchings by Louis Monzies in 1898); it was followed in 1788 by Six semaines de la vie du chevalier de Faublas and in 1790 by La Fin des amours du chevalier de Faublas.

John Dickinson Stationery

Dickinson patented his ideas in 1809 and in the same year he gained financial backing from George Longman, whose family controlled the Longman publishing firm.

Moleskine

In this book, Chatwin tells the story of his original supplier of notebooks, a Paris stationer who in 1986 informed him that the last notebook manufacturer, a small family-run firm in Tours, had discontinued production that year, after the death of the owner.

Pagliero

Leonard Pagliero, British stationer and Chairman of The Kennel Club

Pauline Auzou

On Frimaire 19 Year II (December 9, 1793) she married the stationer Charles-Marie Auzou.

The Troublesome Reign of King John

Q1, 1591, was published by the stationer Sampson Clarke, with no attribution of authorship.

The True Tragedy of Richard III

The play was entered into the Stationers' Register on 19 June 1594; it appeared in print later that year, in a quarto printed and published by Thomas Creede and sold by the stationer William Barley, "at his shop in Newgate Market, near Christ Church door."


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