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BYRON, George Gordon Lord (1788-1824). Hours of Idlesness. Newark: S. and J. Ridge, 1807. Crown 8° (195 x 127mm). Half-title. (Upper margin of title restored, small stain at lower margin of early leaves.) Full blue morocco gilt by Riviere and Sons, top edge gilt, others uncut.
BYRON, George Gordon Lord (1788-1824). Hours of Idlesness. Newark: S. and J. Ridge, 1807. Crown 8° (195 x 127mm). Half-title. (Upper margin of title restored, small stain at lower margin of early leaves.) Full blue morocco gilt by Riviere and Sons, top edge gilt, others uncut. FIRST EDITION of Byron's third book, with twelve of the forty pieces appearing here for the first time. In crown octavo size, though without the two misprints mentioned by Wise on pp. 114 and 181. Page 5 has 'where where' in lines 2 and 3; p. 171 is misnumbered. Watermarked 1806. Wise only recognises the smaller crown octavo as the first edition; today the demy octavo, though regarded as unauthorised by E.H. Coleridge and Randolph, is usually treated as a second issue. Hayward 218; Randolph p. 7; Wise Byron I, p. 7. DE QUINCEY, Thomas (1785-1859). Confessions of an English Opium-Eater . London: for Taylor and Hessey, 1822. 12° (165 x 95mm). Half-title (lacking L4, the final advertisement leaf.) Modern brown morocco gilt by Riviere, inner dentelles, gilt edges. FIRST EDITION of 'the most famous account of drug addiction in English literature'. Norman 619. (2)