Archibald Winterbottom

Archibald Winterbottom

British Victorian entrepreneur and social reformer (1814–1884)

📍 Manchester, New Hampshire USA

Public Career & Background Dossier

Archibald Winterbottom was a British cotton cloth merchant who is best known for becoming the largest producer of bookcloth and tracing cloth in the world. Bookcloth became the dominant bookbinding material in the early 19th century, which was much cheaper and easier to work with than leather, revolutionising the manufacture and distribution of books.

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