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Henry Stevens & Son

Also known as: Henry Stevens & Son; primary name: Stevens, Henry; other name: Henry Stevens & Son; other name: Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles
Details: unknown; dealer/auction house; British; American (USA); Male
Other dates: 1840s-1900s
Address: BUSINESS ADDRESSES 4 Trafalgar Square (in 1867) 115 St Martin's Lane ( in 1887) 39 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury ( by 1891) HOME ADDRESSES 2 Byng Place, Tottenham Court Road (residence of Henry Stevens - 1861) Upper Avenue, Regents Park (residence of Henry Stevens - 1886) Vermont Cottage, Paragon Grove, Surbiton (residence of Henry Newton Stevens - 1878-1891)
Biography: Henry Stevens of Vermont (1819-1886) settled in England in the mid 1840s and set up as a bookseller specialising in Americana and selling to great collectors such as Pierpont Morgan, Henry Huntington, William Folger. The business was continued by his son Henry Newton Stevens (1855-1930); grandson, Henry Stevens, and great-grandson Henry Robert Peter Stevens; Robert Stiles (1869-1937) became a partner c.1905.
Bibliography: http://www.aba.org.uk/aba-past-presidents/319-henry-newton-stevens-1907 (accessed 10 March 2014)

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