Author: Charles Dickens
Title: The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman
Description: London, David Bogue, 1851. Cloth. The third edition of this popular ballad collaboration between Dickens and Cruikshank, with Cruikshank's humorous cartoons. The third edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and ten plates.Collated, complete.A charming poem by Charles Dickens, the last of his collaborations with George Cruikshank.This poem began life when Cruikshank overheard a cockney version of the traditional ballad outside a public house, subsequently repeating it to Dickens, who revamped it into this version here.The authorship of this poem has seen a lot of debate, with people believing that William Makepeace Thackeray was the author and that Dickens provided the notes and preface, however it seems that Cruikshank told people that Dickens wrote the ballad for him.Illustrations by George Cruikshank, the well known caricaturist. In the original publisher's limp cloth binding. Externally, with a dampstain to the board, causing discolouration. Some marks to the boards, including a black ink mark to the front board. A little wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with some spots, and a tidemark to a four pages to the rear, including plates. Tape repair to the reverse of plate 8, and to page 36. Good . Ill.: George Cruikshank. Good .
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Title: The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman
Description: London, David Bogue, 1851. Cloth. The third edition of this popular ballad collaboration between Dickens and Cruikshank, with Cruikshank's humorous cartoons. The third edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and ten plates.Collated, complete.A charming poem by Charles Dickens, the last of his collaborations with George Cruikshank.This poem began life when Cruikshank overheard a cockney version of the traditional ballad outside a public house, subsequently repeating it to Dickens, who revamped it into this version here.The authorship of this poem has seen a lot of debate, with people believing that William Makepeace Thackeray was the author and that Dickens provided the notes and preface, however it seems that Cruikshank told people that Dickens wrote the ballad for him.Illustrations by George Cruikshank, the well known caricaturist. In the original publisher's limp cloth binding. Externally, with a dampstain to the board, causing discolouration. Some marks to the boards, including a black ink mark to the front board. A little wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with some spots, and a tidemark to a four pages to the rear, including plates. Tape repair to the reverse of plate 8, and to page 36. Good . Ill.: George Cruikshank. Good .
Keywords: The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman charles dickens george cruikshank dickens charles dickens lord bateman George Cruikshank
Price: GBP 55.00 = appr. US$ 78.54 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 828P16
- Book number: 828P16
See more books from our catalog: English Literature Pre 1900