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BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord (1788-1824). Hours of Idleness, a Series of Poems, Original and Translated. Newark: S. and J. Ridge, and others, 1807.
8o (186 x 119 mm). Half-title. Wove paper, watermarked "LL 1806." (Some tiny repairs to some uncut edges, tear crossing text repaired on Y4, "s" sort of "Translations" on K4 dislodged and faultily printed.) 19th-century mottled calf gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, by F. Bedford (slightest edgewear). Provenance: Edward Huth (armorial bookplate) sold Sotheby's London, 3 July 1923, lot 49 -- Herbert William Walmisley (bookplate) -- purchased at Sotheby's London, 10 March 1939, lot 111 ("Property of a Gentleman") through Dawsons, London. Exhibited: Grolier Club, 'This powerfull rime,' 1975, no. 51.
FIRST EDITION, with the following points of the first edition: sheets watermarked "LL 1806"; D3 has been cancelled (reset and without footnote); p.5 lines 2-3 read "where where"; p.114 line 4 reads "thnnder"; and p.181 line 21 reads "Thc." Hours of Idleness is Byron's first commercially printed book, rearranging 28 poems from the privately printed Fugitive Pieces and Poems on Various Occasions, and including 12 new poems. Byron was only 19 at the time of publication, and several reviewers attacked the lack of maturity in the work. The most hostile review, Brougham's, lead Byron to write his great satire, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, a work which fully set the tone for Byron's mature work (see lot 157). Hayward 218; Randolph, p.9; Wise Byron I, pp.7-8.
8o (186 x 119 mm). Half-title. Wove paper, watermarked "LL 1806." (Some tiny repairs to some uncut edges, tear crossing text repaired on Y4, "s" sort of "Translations" on K4 dislodged and faultily printed.) 19th-century mottled calf gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, by F. Bedford (slightest edgewear). Provenance: Edward Huth (armorial bookplate) sold Sotheby's London, 3 July 1923, lot 49 -- Herbert William Walmisley (bookplate) -- purchased at Sotheby's London, 10 March 1939, lot 111 ("Property of a Gentleman") through Dawsons, London. Exhibited: Grolier Club, 'This powerfull rime,' 1975, no. 51.
FIRST EDITION, with the following points of the first edition: sheets watermarked "LL 1806"; D3 has been cancelled (reset and without footnote); p.5 lines 2-3 read "where where"; p.114 line 4 reads "thnnder"; and p.181 line 21 reads "Thc." Hours of Idleness is Byron's first commercially printed book, rearranging 28 poems from the privately printed Fugitive Pieces and Poems on Various Occasions, and including 12 new poems. Byron was only 19 at the time of publication, and several reviewers attacked the lack of maturity in the work. The most hostile review, Brougham's, lead Byron to write his great satire, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, a work which fully set the tone for Byron's mature work (see lot 157). Hayward 218; Randolph, p.9; Wise Byron I, pp.7-8.