In com­mon with oth­er Euro­pean coun­tries, Guilds were formed where men had com­mon eco­nom­ic inter­ests and objec­tives and these had dif­fer­ent degrees of con­trol on their trades until the end of the 18th cen­tu­ry, or begin­ning of the indus­tri­al rev­o­lu­tion.

In Lon­don, the May­or and Cham­ber­lain leased sta­tions for trad­ing pur­pos­es around St. Paul’s and the name ​‘sta­tion­er’ might come from the sta­tions these traders occu­pied, but there is no defin­i­tive ori­gin of the term sta­tion­er ((R S Hutch­ings, Edi­tor, British Print­er, April 1957)) .

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