Book with bookplate of Edwin Augustus Stevens, Hoboken: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor, Edited by George Stillman Hillard. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1856.
Book with bookplate of Edwin Augustus Stevens, Hoboken: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor, Edited by George Stillman Hillard. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1856.
Entry/Object ID
2015.041.0001
Scope and Content
Book with E.A. Stevens, Hoboken, bookplate: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor, Edited by George Stillman Hillard. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856.
Book apparently from the personal library of Edwin Augustus Stevens, (July 28, 1795 – August 8, 1868), son of Colonel John Stevens.
A resident of Stevens Villa and the later Stevens Castle in Hoboken. His 1868 bequest for a school led to the establishment of the Stevens Institute of Technology, Castle Point, Hoboken. The first building erected in 1870 was named in his honor.
Printed paper label on front pastedown.
