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Hours of idleness : a series of poems, original and translated / by George Gordon, Lord Byron, a minor.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824, author.
- Language:
- English
- Multiple languages
- Subjects (All):
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824. English bards and Scotch reviewers.
- Byron, George Gordon Byron.
- Genre:
- English poetry -- 19th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Pinney, John Frederick, 1773-1845 (bookplate) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)
- Hayhurst, Robert J., 1929-2016 (bookplate) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)
- Physical Description:
- [8], 158, [2] pages ; 18 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Paris: : Published by Galignani, at the French, English, Italian, German and Spanish Library, no. 18, rue Vivienne, 1819.
- Notes:
- With a half title.
- A reissue of Poems original and translated (second edition; Newark : S. & J. Ridge, 1808) "as the latter contains several poems not comprised in the first."--Advertisement, preliminary page [5]. The first edition of this French edition also dated 1819; see Kohler number 3. The original first edition (1807) had title: Hours of idleness.
- "Critique extracted from The Edinburgh Review No. 22, for January 1808:" Pages [150]-158 "which gave rise to ... 'English bards and Scotch reviewers.'"--Advertisement.
- Local Notes:
- Singer-Mendenhall copy bound with: Polidori, John William. The vampyre. Paris: Published by Galignani, at the French, English, Italian, German and Spanish Library, no. 18, rue Vivienne, 1819.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy acquired for the Penn Libraries in 2021 from Antiquates Ltd. with assistance from the Faye and Gerson Blatnick Special Collections Fund.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy has armorial bookplate of John Frederick Pinney (1773-1845) on front pastedown; illustrated bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst and manuscript note in pencil in his hand on front free endpaper.
- Cited in:
- Coleridge, E.H. Bibliography of Byron's poetical works, page 252
- Kohler, C.C. Byron, number 4
- Contains:
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824. Critique extracted from the Edinburgh Review, No. 22, for January 1808.
- OCLC:
- 228674936
- Online:
- The Faye and Gerson Blatnick Special Collections Fund Home Page
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