Henry Lintot (17091758; fl. 17301758)

Identifiers

Occupations

  • Printer
  • Bookseller
  • Publisher
  • Stationer
  • Law Printer

Dates

  • Freedom: 1730

Names

  • Henry Lintot
  • Henry Lintott

Henry Lintot, printer, bookseller, publisher, stationer, printer of law (1730–1758); at the Cross Keys against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street; in the Savoy; at Temple Bar; in Paternoster Row. Son of printer and bookseller Bernard Lintot.

Dictionary of National Biography (1885–1900)

Henry Lintot (1703–1758), son of the above [Bernard Lintot], died in 1758. By his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Aubrey, bart., whom he married in 1730 (she died in 1734), he had a son Aubrey, who died young, and a daughter Catherine, who carried on business as a law printer in partnership with Richardson the novelist, made a fortune of 45,000 l., and married, in 1768, Captain Henry Fletcher. She died in 1816, and was buried in the church of Walton-on-Thames. By his second wife, who died in 1763, Henry Lintot had no children.

G.A.A.

Notes & Queries "London Booksellers Series" (1931–2)

LINTOT, HENRY. The son of Bernard. He became a partner in the firm of B. and H. Lintot in 1730, and succeeded to the sole control of the business in 1736. About 1748 he was appointed "Law Printer to His Majesty," and he died in 1758.

—Frederick T. Wood, 12 September 1931

A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1726 to 1775, by Henry Plomer et al. (1932)

LINTOT (HENRY), bookseller and publisher in London, Cross Keys, against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street, 1730. The following is mainly extracted from Timperley [p. 703]: Henry Lintot, son of the great London bookseller Bernard Lintot, was born about August 1709, and became a freeman of the Company of Stationers by patrimony on September 1st, 1730, after which he joined his father in the business, on whose death in 1736 he succeeded to the business in London and also became High Sheriff for the county of Sussex. He was twice married, but left no male heirs. In 1739 he published the third edition of John Keill's Introduction to the true Astronomy, at the end of which is bound up a fourteen-page catalogue of books printed for Bernard Lintot. In this the titles of the books are given at much greater length than in the second edition of this work which was published by Bernard in 1730, and also contains a few additional titles. This was probably one of a number of remainder copies of this catalogue, which Henry got rid of after his father's death in this way. Henry Lintot died in 1758.