Henry Overton II (d. 1751; fl. 1704–1751)

OVERTON (HENRY), bookseller and printseller in London, White Horse without Newgate, 1707–9. Son of John Overton. His father sold him his stock of maps, prints, and engravings on his marriage in 1707; he is mentioned in the Term Catalogue of 1709. [T.C. m. 647.] He had taken his brother Philip (q. v.) into partnership 1709.

OVERTON, HENRY. Succeeded to the business of his father at the White Horse without Newgate in 1707. Plomer (op. cit., pp. 225–6) states that he retired two years later, in 1709, but his advertisements appear in the daily press in 1710. By this date he had taken his brother Philip into partnership with him. (See below). He was still living, though he may not have been in business, in 1712, for he subscribed to the Bowyer relief fund.

—Frederick T. Wood, 26 September 1931

OVERTON, HENRY. It was John Overton—not his son Henry—who, according to Plomer, retired in 1707 (not 1709 as quoted). Henry Overton succeeded his father at the White Horse, without Newgate, in 1707; took his brother Philip into partnership, and was still there in 1758. I have records of more than a dozen copy-books which bear his imprint, and were published between these two dates. In addition to those mentioned I have imprints of H. Overton and J. Hoole in partnership at the same address between 1716 and 1731. There was of course an earlier Henry Overton at the White Horse, 1629–48 (Plomer). See also 'D.N.B.'

—Ambrose Heal, 21 November 1931