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RYDER—SANDERS.

RYDER, see Rider, Th.

SADLER (LAURENCE), bookseller in London; Golden Lion in Little Britain, 1631-64. Possibly a son of the Lawrence Sadler found publishing in 1599. [Arber, v. civ.] Smyth in his Obituary, p. 60, records "Augt. 2, 1664. Mr. Laur. Sadler, bookseller, died at ye Hague, of ye Plague."

SADLER (THEODORE), bookseller in London, (1) Bible, over against the little North Door of St. Paul's Church, 1660; (2) Next door to the Golden Dolphin, over against Exeter House in the Strand, 1663; (3) Little Britain, 1666 (1660-6.) Probably a relative of Laurence Sadler, q.v., whom he seems to have succeeded. At the outset of his career he was in partnership with T. Davies at the Bible in St. Paul's Churchyard. He is mentioned in the Hearth Tax Roll for the half-year ending Lady Day, 1666, as a bookseller in Little Britain. [P.R.O. Lay Subsidy, 252/32]

SALMON (JAMES), bookseller (?) Grub Streete, neere to the Flying Horse, 1641. Associated with M. Rookes, q.v., in publishing the following political pamphlets relating to Ireland: (1) Bloody News from Ireland, 1641. [E. 179 (9)]; (2) Treacherous plot of a confederacie in Ireland, 1641. [E. 179 (15).]

SAMUEL (G), bookseller (?) in London, 1651. His name occurs in the imprint to a pamphlet entitled A Great Fight at Sea … Imprinted at London for G. Samuel, 1651. [Hazlitt, ii. 550.]

SANDERS (JAMES), bookseller in Glasgow, 1625-42. Sold a bible to the Cathedral authorities in 1625. One of the debtors in J. Bryson's inventory, 1642. [H. G. Aldis, List of books, p. 119.]

SANDERS (ROBERT), printer in Glasgow, 1661-96; "Printer to the Toun," 1662; Printer to the City and University, 1672; One of His Majesties printers, 1683. Succeeded Andrew Anderson as printer at Glasgow, and during his thirty years' work produced a large amount of literature. Nephew of William Sanders, Professor of Mathematics in St. Andrew's University. On September 23rd, 1661, the town council of Glasgow granted him an annual subsidy of forty pounds Scots. One of the debtors in Lithgow's inventory, 1662. Prosecuted in 1671 by A. Anderson, and by his heir in 1680 for infringement of their patent. About 1683 purchased