Thomas Sawbridge (d. 1692; fl. 1669–1692)
Identifiers
- Grubstreet: 27289
Occupations
- Bookseller
- Publisher
Dates
- Apprenticeship: 1658
- Clothed: 1675
Thomas Sawbridge, bookseller, 1669–1692; next to the Anchor in Duck Lane; at the Three Flower de Luces in Little Britain. He was baptized 16 January 1642; apprenticed 2 August 1658; clothed 2 August 1675; buried 20 November 1692. Succeeded by George Sawbridge the Younger.
A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)
SAWBRIDGE (THOMAS), bookseller in London, (1) next the Anchor, Duck Lane; (2) Three Flower de Luces, Little Britain, 1669–92. For the relationship between George and Thomas Sawbridge see above. Thomas Sawbridge began to publish in 1669, with William Leybourn's Art of Dialling. [T.C. I. 18.] He quickly rose to a high position in the trade, and between 1678 and 1681 was associated with John Dunmore, T. Dring, Charles Mearne,and Benjamin Tooke in the publication of a series of classics which may rank amongst the finest examples of book production of that period. The type for this series came from the foundry of J. Grover. Sawbridge was a prolific publisher. He made his last entry in the Term Catalogues in Mich. 1692 [T.C. 11.430], and was succeeded by his son (?) George Sawbridge, the Younger (q.v.).