Nicholas Wanton 1544?-1618
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Nicholas WANTON 1544?-1618
Biographical Note
Member of the Grocers’ Company in London, lived and died in York in the late 16th/early 17th century.
Books
A number of surviving books in American libraries with Wanton’s inscription, motto and numbering system suggest that he had a library of at least 900 volumes.
Sources
- Williams, F. B. John Bodenham, Studies in philology 31 (1934) 198-214, 213-4.