[Fine Binding | Bumpus] Hours of Idleness Roycrofters featuring an elegant inlaid Arts

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

There is also a small label affixed inside the back cover

Features seven borders

which mellows with age from white to a rich amber color

[Fine Binding | Bumpus] Hours of Idleness Roycrofters featuring an elegant inlaid ArtsByron, 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,