{"id":9571,"date":"2012-12-10T11:29:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T17:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=9571"},"modified":"2012-12-10T11:29:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T17:29:39","slug":"a-book-collector-more-obsessive-than-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=9571","title":{"rendered":"A Book Collector More Obsessive Than I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poking around the Internet, I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilab.org\/eng\/documentation\/81-literary_property_changing_hands_the_peyraud_collection.html\">this description<\/a> of the personal collection of American librarian Paula Peyraud, who assembled a vast and impressive collection of books, letters, and art for the Georgian period (1760\u20131820), including important work by Samuel Johnson, Jane Austen, and hundreds of less famous figures. <\/p>\n<p>A more complete description of her collection can be found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilab.org\/download.php?object=documentation&#038;id=81\">this PDF<\/a>, and if you&#8217;re interested in books and collecting it&#8217;s well worth a read. Though not my collecting vector, the collection Peyraud was amazing not only in quality (though she favored extensively hand-annotated works by contemporary figures over pristine copies), but also in the sheer vastness of her holdings. &#8220;By the time of Peyraud\u2019s sad death in 2008, the complete collection ran to approximately half a million printed books.&#8221; Having assembled a bit over 1% of that number, the sheer size of her library (which she kept, meticulously cataloged, in a subterranean book gallery at the big family home she inherited) is stunning. I&#8217;m also tickled by the idea of an American librarian outbidding a Viscountess for a choice item. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.veerybooks.com\/imgs\/Peyraud13.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poking around the Internet, I came across this description of the personal collection of American librarian Paula Peyraud, who assembled a vast and impressive collection of books, letters, and art for the Georgian period (1760\u20131820), including important work by Samuel Johnson, Jane Austen, and hundreds of less famous figures. A more complete description of her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[436,98,1973],"class_list":["post-9571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book-auction","tag-book-collecting","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9571"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9603,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9571\/revisions\/9603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}