Author: DOBELL, Bertram (Editor).
Title: A Prospect of Society. By Oliver Goldsmith. Being the earliest form of his poem The Traveller. Now reprinted from the unique original with a reprint of the first edition ...
Description: London: published by the Editor, 1902. 8vo. xvi, 12[4], [iv], iv, 22pp, viii pp notes and Editor's adverts. Original brown cloth gilt, teg o/w uncut. * Published as a result of Dobell's 'discovery' of a trial issue of 'A prospect of society', sold to the British Library in 1902. Not of any especial value this copy is enhanced by the presentation inscription to the M.P. John Burns together with a fine ALS from Dobell to Burns on the subject of bookselling from barrows. The relevant text is appended below: 'I don't think I ever thanked you (as I ought to have done) for what you did for us when our bookstalls were threatened. It seems that after all the bother we are to be graciously permitted to "obstruct" the thoroughfare as we have done for the last fifteen years. Strange to say I don't feel in the least grateful to the busybodies who, after worrying me as they did, have at last concluded to let me alone. I fear that if I met one of them I should follow Mr. Dilbon's example, and use some unparliamentary expressions! Hurrah! for John Burns, and all other good fellows - and down with Joseph!'

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