[Fine Binding | Bumpus] Hours of Idleness Roycrofters outer gilt flower & leaf

outer gilt flower & leaf gilt frame flanked with thick blind tooled rules

Six compartments to spine

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

) This design has been delicately hand-colored

Offsetting to endpapers

[Fine Binding | Bumpus] Hours of Idleness Roycrofters outer gilt flower & leafByron, 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,