Early in the summer (June--July) of 1807, a volume, small octavo, named 

Hours of Idleness

--a title henceforth associated with Byron's early poems--was printed and published by S. and J. Ridge of Newark, and was sold by the following London booksellers: Crosby and Co.; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; F. and C. Rivington; and J. Mawman. The full title is, "

Hours of Idleness; a Series of Poems Original and Translated

. By George Gordon, Lord Byron, a Minor". It numbers 187 pages, and consists of thirty-nine poems. Of these, nineteen belonged to the original 

Fugitive Pieces

, eight had first appeared in 

Poems on Various Occasions

, and twelve were published for the first time. The "Fragment of a Translation from the 9th Book of Virgil's Æneid" (

sic

), numbering sixteen lines, reappears as 

The Episode of Nisus and Euryalus, A Paraphrase from the Æneid, Lib. 9

, numbering 406 lines.

 

 The final collection, also in small octavo, bearing the title "

Poems Original and Translated

, by George Gordon, Lord Byron", second edition, was printed and published in 1808 by S. and J. Ridge of Newark, and sold by the same London booksellers as 

Hours of Idleness

. It numbers 174 pages, and consists of seventeen of the original 

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