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Nothing in fiction can excel his legal characters in, for instance, “Bleak House,”—his Mr. Tulkinghorn, Mr. Guppy, the clerk, and Mr. Snagsby, the law stationer.

I was glad to accept of employment as copying clerk to a law stationer, at a salary of seven shillings a-week.

His father was a poor solicitor’s clerk, who also had a small business as a law stationer, and his mother had been a nursemaid.

To have the whole of Shakespeare's Plays copied out by a law stationer would cost more than two hundred pounds, and every new copy would cost as much as the first.

It was here, at Olibar Turner's, a law stationer's, that Eliza Fenning lived, whom we have already mentioned when we entered Hone's shop, in Fleet Street.