[Fine Binding | Bumpus] Hours of Idleness Roycrofters Six compartments to spine

Six compartments to spine

) This design has been delicately hand-colored

featuring an elegant inlaid Arts & Crafts design of a large inlaid burgundy central ornament with navy border and four inlaid teal flowers and small green leaves

and light wear to spine label and horse illustration to front cover

[Fine Binding | Bumpus] Hours of Idleness Roycrofters Six compartments to spineByron, Lord George Gordon. Hours of Idleness: A Series of Poems, Original and Illustrated. London: Printed for W. T. Sherwin, 1820. The sixth edition overall, and the first authorized edition. With an engraved frontispiece after J. Halsted. Also with the misprint 'lngth' for 'length' on line 1 of p. 160. Bound in full navy morocco for Bumpus (almost certainly by Riviere & Son) with exquisite inlaid floral red and green mosaic panels to both boards,