Bibliophile, born at Braunston, Northamptonshire, England, on the 9th of December 1821. He was for some years a bookseller in Oxford, but in 1848 he came to the United States, and ultimately settled in New York as an antiquarian bookseller and publisher. From 1856 to 1861 he pursued his calling in Philadelphia, but at the outbreak of the civil war returned to New York. As a bibliographer he had scarcely an equal, and such was his devotion to his specialty that he crossed the ocean twenty-five times in his hunt after old and rare works. He prepared catalogues of most of the valuable libraries that were sold at auction in his time in New York, among which may be specified those of Dr. Samuel F. Jarvis (1851), E. B. Curran (1856), G. B. Hazewell (1856), W. E. Burton (1861), Edwin Forrest (1863), John Allan (1864), and T. W. Fields (1875). Sabin republished on large paper limited editions of various old works illustrative of American history, and edited and published for several years the American Bibliophilist commencing in 1869. In 1867 he undertook the publication in parts of a Dictionary of Books relating to America, from its Discovery to the Present Time, of which he completed 13 volumes. He died at Brooklyn, on the 5th of June 1881.
