Joseph Sabin (9 December 1821—5 June 1881) was a Braunston, England-born bibliographer and bookseller in Oxford, Philadelphia, and New York City.[1][2] He compiled the "stupendous" multivolume Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, considered a "bibliophilic monument;"[3] and published the American Bibliopolist, a trade magazine.[4][5] His sons Robert T. Sabin and William W. Sabin also worked in the bookselling business.[6]
At the sale of the library of the musicologist and rare book collector, Edward Francis Rimbault, in 1877, Sabin served as an agent for the banker and collector, Joseph W. Drexel, in his large purchase of portions of the 1877 auction, held in London from July 31 to August 7.[7]
^Donald W. Krummel (2005), "Early American Imprint Bibliography and Its Stories: An Introductory Course in Bibliographical Civics", Libraries & Culture, 40 (3): 239–250, doi:10.1353/lac.2005.0050, JSTOR25541929, S2CID161647315
^Donna Dennis (2009). Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York. Harvard University Press. ISBN978-0-674-05373-1.
^A. Hyatt King, Catalog of the Music Library of Edward Francis Rimbault Sold at London 31 July-7 August 1877, with the Library of Dr. Rainbeau, reprint (Buren: Frits Knuf, 1975), p. viii.
Further reading
"American Bibliopolist", Sabin & Sons' American Bibliopolist1869-1872, 1–9, NY: J. Sabin & Sons: 9 v. in 8, 1869–1877
Joseph Sabin (1877), A Bibliography of Bibliography; or, A handy book about books which relate to books, New York: J. Sabin, OCLC2017974, OL7222810M
Adolph Growoll (1939) [1898]. "Joseph Sabin". Book Trade Bibliography in the United States in the Nineteenth Century. E. B. Hackett, The Brick Row Book Shop. hdl:2027/mdp.39015033668214.
Charles F. Heartman (1925–26), "Joseph F. Sabin", American Collector, vol. 1, OCLC7401125
William S. Reese (1984), "Joseph Sabin", American Book Collector, vol. 5, no. 1, ISSN0196-5654
Joel Silver (22 March 1993), "Joseph Sabin and The American Bibliopolist", AB Bookman's Weekly, no. 91
Joseph Rosenblum (1997), "Joseph Sabin", in Rosenblum (ed.), American Book Collectors and Bibliographers
Bibliotheca Americana
Joseph Sabin; Wilberforce Eames; R. W. G. Vail, eds. (1868–1936). Bibliotheca Americana: a Dictionary of Books relating to America, from its Discovery to the Present Time. New York. OCLC13972268.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) + via Hathi Trust
