Bloomsbury Auctions (New York)

(30 cm), 277 (11) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 483 lots. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - The Library of Paula Fentress Peyraud (1947-2008), the so-called “Dark Lady” of rare book collectors (Maureen E. Mulvihill, in Eighteenth-Century Studies, volume 43, 2009, pp.151-63). Hester Thrale’s heavily annotated set of The Spectator (lot 422) realised $140,300 (now Beinecke Library, Yale University) and Thrales’s annotated copy of Richard Cumberland’s Memoirs (lot 426) fetched $42,700 (now Hyde Collection, Harvard College Library). ¶ As new.