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{{Short description|Bookbinder}}
'''William Nott''' was a 17th-century [[London]] [[bookbinder]] who has been tentatively identified as "[[Queens' Binder|Queen's Bookbinder]] A."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/bindings/|title=British Bookbindings: 16th-19th century|publisher=University of Glasgow Special Collections|accessdate=7 July 2017}}</ref> [[Samuel Pepys]] reports in his diary in 1668 that he visited a bookbinder named Nott, likely William, and obtained a binding from him:<ref>{{cite book|last1=Marks|first1=P.J.M.|title=The British Library Guide to Bookbinding: History and Techniques|date=1998|publisher=University of Toronto Press|location=Toronto, ON}}</ref>
<blockquote>"...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)<ref>{{cite web|last1=Gyford|first1=Phil|title=Friday 12 March 1668/69|url=http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1669/03/12/|website=The Diary of Samuel Pepys|accessdate=7 July 2017}}</ref></blockquote>
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