Matthew Wotton (fl. 1685–1725)
Identifiers
- Grubstreet: 1375
- VIAF: 304946112
- Wikidata: Q107008188
Occupations
- Bookseller
- Publisher
Dates
- Apprenticeship: 1677
- Freedom: 1685
Matthew Wotton, publisher and bookseller, 1685–1725; at the Three Pigeons against / over against the Inner Temple Gate in Fleet Street, 1682–1691; at the Three Daggers, Fleet Street, 1687 to at least 1725.
A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)
WOTTON (MATTHEW), bookseller in London, (1) Three Pigeons, Fleet Street, 1687; (a) Three Daggers, Fleet Street, 1687–1725 (?). 1687–1725 (?). This well-known publisher is first met with in Hil. 1687, when, in company with George Conyers, he advertised Thomas York's Practical Treatise of Arithmetick. [T.C. II. 187.] From that time his output of books increased rapidly. He published law-books, histories, travels, and medical works, and also romances and chap-books, such as The History of the Seven Wise Masters, Greene's Dorastus and Fawnia, and A Thousand Notable Things. A list of books printed for him is given at the end of Richard Willis's Sermon before the Lord Mayor, 1702. [Bodl. Sermons 21.] In most of his later publications he only held a share with Chiswell, Tooke, Sawbridge, Conyers, and others. Writing in 1703 Dunton [p. 210] spoke of Wotton as "a very courteous, obliging man. His trade lies much among the lawyers ... I hear he is a rising man". He was still publishing in 1725, and was succeeded by his son Thomas.