BIB_ID
81507
Accession number
MA 62.23
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1807 Nov. 11.
Credit line
Acquired before 1923.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Ridge / Bookseller / Newark / Notts."
From the Kaye Dowland Byron collection.
High reserve.
John Ridge, a printer based in Newark (near Newstead Abbey), was Byron's original printer.
Part of a large collection of autograph letters from Byron to various recipients; see main record for MA 62 for more information.
With postmark and seal.
From the Kaye Dowland Byron collection.
High reserve.
John Ridge, a printer based in Newark (near Newstead Abbey), was Byron's original printer.
Part of a large collection of autograph letters from Byron to various recipients; see main record for MA 62 for more information.
With postmark and seal.
Summary
Discussing a second edition of his Hours of Idleness; telling him that the next edition should be "printed & bound in the same manner, & in the same coloured Boards as Little" [Thomas Moore's Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Little]; noting that the title should be altered "simply to 'Poems'"; adding that the preface and the second poem (Stanzas on a view of Harrow) should be omitted; asking if the second edition can be printed in London so he can "superintend the proofs in person"; reporting that he has new poems to add to the end of the volume.
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