Thomas Sabine I (fl. 1758–1834)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 3901

Occupations

  • Printer
  • Bookseller

Thomas Sabine, printer and bookseller (1758–1834); at 17 Little New Street, Shoe Lane (1777–85?); at 81 Shoe Lane, Fleet Street (1780–1825); at 7 Fleet Lane (1826–34).

Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History, ed. Ian Maxted (2005–)

SABINE, Thomas I, printer and bookseller, 81, Shoe Lane 1785P–1825; 7, Fleet Lane 1826-34. Trading: as Thomas Sabine 1785P–1804; as Sabine and son 1808–25; as Thomas Sabine junior 1826–34. S. of Cornelius S. of Steeple Ashton, Wilts., schoolmaster. App. Thomas Bailey 1758, free Sta. Co. 1765, livery 1780, 1775–95 15 apps. Registered press 1799. Son Thomas II partner by 1799 and successor. Howe; Todd; Brown; McKenzie.

—Ian Maxted, The London Book Trades 1775-1800: A Preliminary Checklist of Members