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Goldsmith, Oliver, The poems and plays of Oliver Goldsmith with the addition of The Vicar of Wakefield, Memoir, etc. Goldsmith, Oliver, The poems and plays of Oliver Goldsmith with the addition of The Vicar of Wakefield, Memoir, etc. Goldsmith, Oliver, The poems and plays of Oliver Goldsmith with the addition of The Vicar of Wakefield, Memoir, etc.
• Goldsmith, Oliver
  The poems and plays of Oliver Goldsmith with the addition of The Vicar of Wakefield, Memoir, etc.
  Ira Bradley and Co., Boston, , Decorative Cloth, , , Very Good /No Jacket
  
  

  A nicely preserved example of an uncommon imprint of Ira Bradley from the early 1880s. Brown beveled cloth stamped in relief in black and gold. Lovely floral design on spine and front board. Exquisite rendition of 'Goldsmith' in gold. AEG. Frontis portrait. Several illustrations, decorative head- and tail-pieces, initials.

  

SONG: from 'She Stoops to Conquer'

LET school-masters puzzle their brain,
With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;
Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,
Gives 'genus' a better discerning.
Let them brag of their heathenish gods,
Their Lethes, their Styxes, and Stygians:
Their Quis, and their Quaes, and their Quods,
They're all but a parcel of Pigeons.
          Toroddle, toroddle, toroll.

When Methodist preachers come down
A-preaching that drinking is sinful,
I'll wager the rascals a crown
They always preach best with a skinful.
But when you come down with your pence,
For a slice of their scurvy religion,
I'll leave it to all men of sense,
But you, my good friend, are the pigeon.
          Toroddle, toroddle, toroll.

Then come, put the jorum about,
And let us be merry and clever;
Our hearts and our liquors are stout;
Here's the Three Jolly Pigeons for ever.
Let some cry up woodcock or hare,
Your bustards, your ducks, and your widgeons;
But of all the birds in the air,
Here's a health to the Three Jolly Pigeons.
          Toroddle, toroddle, toroll.