Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Hours of Idleness, a Series of Poems, Original and Translated.

      Good+ with no dj. First edition. Very Scarce. J & S Ridge, 1807, Newark. Brown full leather binding, all marbled edges, marbled endpapers. Binding is solid but front cover is detached from the binding, rear board still attached, pges are unusually clean, cover are clean with some abrasion and rubbing but binding still supple, spine strip toe has a 2 inch chip, no markings inside. .Has a paper noteincluded with 1930s auction records for book. .187 pages, 7.25" by 4.75".. Binding looks like a nineteenth century binding. As issue point, Half-title not present. page 171 numbered correctly, pp 114 Thnnder misprinted for thunder, pp181 has "thc" for "the on next to last line. pp 22 has "Those tissues of falsehood which Folly has wove" and no footnote [Publisher: Newark: S. and J. Ridge]