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Henry was born on August 24, 1819 in Barnet, Vermont, United States, third child and second son of Henry and Candace (Salter) Stevens, and brother of Benjamin Franklin Stevens.
According to his own account he was at Middlebury College, 1839; in Washington as a clerk in the Treasury Department and the Senate, 1840; at Yale College, 1841-43, where he took the degree of B. A. ; and at Harvard, 1844, where he studied law, "all the while dabbling in books and manuscripts by way of keeping the pot boiling. "
Stevens reached England just as Sir Anthony Panizzi began his development of the book stock of the British Museum, and had much to do with museum purchases of books relating to the New World. In America he helped build up the collections of John Carter Brown of Providence, Rhod Island, James Lenox of New York City, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Library of Congress, to mention but a few of his outstanding American customers. He came to hold high rank as an authority in the bibliographical history of the English Bible, and in the geographical and historical literature of the western world.
As early as November 14, 1846, in a letter to Lenox, he urged transcription of documents in European archives for the use of American scholars, and he was a pioneer in the use of photography to supplement bibliography. Though he agreed to make a catalogue of the Lenox library, he never fulfilled the promise. His conflicts with such men as Henry Harrisse and Justin Winsor were frequent.
The bookselling business he founded was continued in London by his son and his grandson. He was buried in Hampstead Cemetery, London.
Henry Stevens has been listed as a noteworthy bibliographer by Marquis Who's Who.
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London was his home until his death and the world of books his life.
Quotations: On the title page of his Recollections of Mr. James Lenox of New York and the Formation of His Library (1886) he describes himself as "Bibliographer and Lover of Books, " "Patriarch of Skull & Bones of Yale as well as Citizen of Noviomagus et cetera. "
He became a member of the Society of Antiquaries in 1852, and in 1877 was a member of the committee which organized the Caxton Exhibition, for which he catalogued the collection of Bibles. Stevens was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1854.
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Characterized by Richard Garnett as "genial, expansive, sanguine, and as both crafty and candid", he was called "an enigma" by so restrained and careful a man as George Henry Moore.
On February 25, 1854, he married in London Mary (Newton) Kuczynski, a descendant of Sir Isaac Newton, widow of Vincent Kuczynski of H. M. State Paper Office.
