Definition of "law-stationer" [law-stationer]

• A stationer who keeps on sale the articles required by lawyers, such as parchment, tape, foolscap, brief-paper, etc., and who sometimes, in England, takes in drafts or writings to be fairly copied or engrossed for lawyers. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "She was a kindly good motherly soul, whose husband was a journeyman law-stationer, and who kept a very decent house in Great"
• "Edmund (who was the daughter of a law-stationer) had much difficulty in behaving to Mrs Alfred with show of suavity."
• "He was the son of John Milton, a prosperous scrivener (i. e., attorney and law-stationer), a man of good family and considerable culture, especially devoted to music."