1. stationer - Noun
2. stationer - Adjective
A bookseller or publisher; -- formerly so called from his occupying a stand, or station, in the market place or elsewhere.
One who sells paper, pens, quills, inkstands, pencils, blank books, and other articles used in writing.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft. Honoré de Balzac
He packaged his crayons into decorative boxes and offered them through stationer clients he knew. Source: Internet
The solution, stationer, is an anagram of into tears, the letters of which have burst out of their original arrangement to form the name of a type of businessman. Source: Internet
The first indication of this change in approach comes from the 1706 pamphlet by John How, a stationer, titled Reasons humbly Offer'd for a Bill for the Encouragement of Learning and the Improvement of Printing. Source: Internet