stationer
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• noun
A person or company that sells writing materials, paper, envelopes, pens, and related office supplies.
"She ordered custom-engraved wedding invitations from a traditional local stationer."
Historically, a bookseller, publisher, or copyist of manuscripts who operated from a fixed shop rather than as a traveling peddler.
"In sixteenth-century London, every new play had to be entered into the register of the Worshipful Company of Stationers before printing."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Middle English stationer, borrowed from Medieval Latin stationarius ('a tradesman with a fixed stall or shop'), from Latin statio ('a standing still, post, or station'). In medieval university towns, stationers were licensed booksellers and copyists who operated from permanent stalls rather than as itinerant peddlers.