DICKENS (CHARLES) The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Charles Tilt, and Mustapha Syried, Constantinople, 1839[DICKENS (CHARLES)]The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "wine" for "vine" on page 13, half-title, engraved plate of music, 11 etched plates by George Cruickshank, 8pp. publisher's advertisements at end, spotting to plates, publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt, extremities slightly rubbed, preserved in cloth solander box, gilt lettered on spine [Eckel, pp. 206-208; Cohn 243], 16mo, Charles Tilt, "and Mustapha Syried, Constantinople", 1839Charles Dickens's anonymously published version of the popular comic ballad telling of an English Lord who travelled to the East, is imprisoned, then released by the jailer's daughter Sophia ("so called doubtless from the mosque of St. Sophia, at Constantinople"). Provenance: Oliver Brett, 3rd Viscount Esher, bookplate; his sale, Sotheby's, 26 March 1940, lot 540; Sotheby's, Charles Dickens. The Lawrence Drizen Collection, 24 September 2019, lot 58.