William Nott was a 17th-century London bookbinder who has been tentatively identified as "Queen's Bookbinder A."[1] Samuel Pepys reports in his diary in 1668 that he visited a bookbinder named Nott, likely William, and obtained a binding from him:[2]
"...having sent for W. Howe to me to discourse with him about the Patent Office records, wherein I remembered his brother to be concerned, I took him in my coach with W. Hewer and myself towards Westminster; and there he carried me to Nott’s, the famous bookbinder, that bound for my Lord Chancellor’s library; and here I did take occasion for curiosity to bespeak a book to be bound, only that I might have one of his binding." (March 12, 1668/9)[3]
References edit
- ^ "British Bookbindings: 16th-19th century". University of Glasgow Special Collections. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
- ^ Marks, P.J.M. (1998). The British Library Guide to Bookbinding: History and Techniques. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.
- ^ Gyford, Phil. "Friday 12 March 1668/69". The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Retrieved 7 July 2017.