[Fine Binding | Bumpus] Hours of Idleness Roycrofters which mellows with age from

which mellows with age from white to a rich amber color

There is also a small label affixed inside the back cover

and purple

Six compartments to spine

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

[Fine Binding | Bumpus] Hours of Idleness Roycrofters which mellows with age fromByron, 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,