Henry Woodfall Junior (1713?–1769; fl. 1737–1768)
Henry Woodfall II, printer and publisher in Little Britain (1738–46); in Paternoster Row (1737–68); Law Printer to the King. Son of printer Henry Woodfall I (1686–1747) and father of printer and newspaper editor Henry Sampson Woodfall (1739–1805),
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)
WOODFAL (HENRY), printer in London, Paternoster Row, 1737–1764 (?). Nichols in his Literary Anecdotes, I. 300, says that Henry Woodfall, who was a printer without Temple Bar, and died about 1747, "had two sons [i.e.] Henry a printer in Paternoster Row and George a bookseller at Charing Cross, both of whom I well remember." But there seems to be considerable confusio between Henry Woodfall and Henry Sampson Woodfall (q. v.). In 1855 there appeared in Notes & Queries some short extracts from the ledgers of Henry Woodfall between 1734 and 1748, but whether these refer to Henry Woodfall, who died about 1747, or to his son, there is nothing to show. But it is clear that the printer had a large business and printed for all the chief publishers of the day, and his prices compared favourably with those of other London printers. One of the Henrys became Master of the Company of Sationers in 1766 and died in 1767. [Arber, Transcript. v. lxviii.]
Notes & Queries "London Booksellers Series" (1931–2)
WOODFALL, HENRY. Best known as a printer, but in 1741 published the London Daily Post and General Advertiser. At this date he was at the Rose and Crown in Little Britain. Nichols declares that "Henry Woodfall Esq., was master of the Stationers' Company in 1766, the year when I became a Freeman. He was an old member of the common council, and died wealthy and respected in 1769." (`Anecdotes' 300).
—Frederick T. Wood, 24 October 1931