Thomas Harbin (d. 1737; fl. 1693–1726)
Thomas Harbin, bookseller, at the Wheat Sheafe, over against the Golden Tun Tavern in the Strand, 1693; at the Rose in the Strand, 1702; at the Bible and Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange in the Strand, 1712–1726.
A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)
HARBIN (THOMAS), bookseller in London, (i) Wheatsheaf against the Tun Tavern, near Hungerford Market; (2) Bible and Anchor in the New Exchange in the Strand. 1693–1737. In 1693 he published for John Whittel, Constantinus Redivivus. [Haz. II. 643.] On June 11th, 1694, his name occurs in an advertisement of patent medicines in The City Mercury. In 1721 he published Sir Francis Hubert's Life of Edward II, with the imprint of the Bible and Anchor. Harbin was also noted as selling ink of good quality. He died November 18th, 1737. [Timperley, p. 660.]