Hours of Idleness, A Series of Poems, Original and Translated, finely bound in full Morocco

by Hatchards, housed in a quarter Morocco solander box by Lord Byron George Gordon Noel Byron

$2,250 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

First edition

Newark: Printed and sold by S. and J. Ridge, 1807. First edition, first issue. Leather. This is the first edition, first issue, of Lord Byron's first published volume of poetry. First issue is confirmed by: repetition of where at page 5, lines 2-3; absence of a footnote at p.22 and the line Those tisses of falsehood which folly has wove ; the misprint thnndr at page 114, line 4; the misprint Thc at page 181, line 21.

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