Joseph Sabin

Joseph Sabin (9 December 1821—5 June 1881) was a Braunston, England-born bibliographer and bookseller in Oxford, Philadelphia, and New York City. He compiled the "stupendous" multivolume ''Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America'', considered a "bibliophilic monument;" and published the ''American Bibliopolist'', a trade magazine.

Sabin was apprenticed to a bookdealer in Oxford in 1821 to learn bookbinding and established a partnership as a bookseller. He married his partner's sister and was father to two sons. Provided by Wikipedia