In 1817, he printed for private circulation ‘Journal of a Tour through part of France, Flanders, and Holland, including a visit to Paris and a walk over the Field of Waterloo in the summer of 1816.’ This work was dedicated to the Society of United Friars of Norwich, a literary society of which he was almost the last survivor.
In 1827, he published in two volumes ‘A Tour in France, Savoy, Northern Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands,’ and in the same year was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
This work, with illustrations by Frederick William Fairholt, was left incomplete at the time of his death, as to the last letters U to Z.
It was then revised in part by Charles Roach Smith, and, being completed by Frederic William Madden, was published, after many delays, in 1889 under the title of ‘A Dictionary of Roman Coins, Republican and Imperial,’ and remains the standard work on the subject.
Stevenson died at Cambridge on 22 December 1853, in the house of his son-in-law, John Deighton, surgeon.