[1] Motte's place of business in Fleet Street (London) was located in Middle Temple Gate.
[7] Motte took great care to protect the identity of the author and employed five publishing houses to speed production of the book and avoid pirating.
Curll had obtained the works illegitimately and had published them to spite Swift, and he used the controversy with Motte to attempt to generate publicity.
[9] Although Curll was unwilling to do anything about the reproduction, Pope turned from Motte as his publisher for a fourth edition of the Miscellanies over a payment dispute and other publication-related complaints.
The London courts upheld Motte's claim and ordered that Faulkner's edition of Swift's Works to be kept from importation into England.
Although Motte is most known for his production of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, he produced other great works.
[16] Motte's edition of William Giffard's Cases in midwifry is the earliest published record of using Chamberlen forceps during childbirth.