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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Henry Stevens (1819–1886)

Stevens, Henry. An American bibliographer; born in Barnet, VT, Aug. 24, 1819; died in South Hampstead, England, Feb. 28, 1886. He was a prominent collector and authority on ‘Americana,’ and the agent for many American libraries. He published: ‘Catalogue Raisonné of English Bibles’ (1854); ‘Historical Collections’; ‘Historical and Geographical Notes’; ‘Bibliotheca Americana’ (1861); ‘Bibles in the Caxton Exhibition’ (1878); ‘Indexes to State Papers in London Relating to Virginia, Maryland, Rhode Island, and New Jersey’; edited ‘The Dawn of British Trade to the East Indies’ (1886); etc.