BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL, Lord. Hours of Idleness, a Series of Poems, Original and Translated. Newark: Printed and sold by S. and J. Ridge...1807. 8vo, early 19th-century calf, blind-tooled, blue speckled edges, rebacked, extremities worn, front cover beginning to loosen. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, of Byron's first "published" book, with the half-title, with points: paper watermarked "1806," [D3] is a cancel, with the two typographical errors on pp. 114 and 181, "where" printed twice in lines 2 and 3 of p. 5, p. 171 correctly numbered. Randolph, p. 9; PMM 270; Hayward 218. "Ex Libris L.J. Lloyd" in an early hand on front flyleaf.

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BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL, Lord. Hours of Idleness, a Series of Poems, Original and Translated. Newark: Printed and sold by S. and J. Ridge...1807. 8vo, early 19th-century calf, blind-tooled, blue speckled edges, rebacked, extremities worn, front cover beginning to loosen. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, of Byron's first "published" book, with the half-title, with points: paper watermarked "1806," [D3] is a cancel, with the two typographical errors on pp. 114 and 181, "where" printed twice in lines 2 and 3 of p. 5, p. 171 correctly numbered. Randolph, p. 9; PMM 270; Hayward 218. "Ex Libris L.J. Lloyd" in an early hand on front flyleaf.

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