Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [iv]+564 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Inscribed by the author to her daughter. First British edition. It is a haunting tale of a strange romance between a worldly and dissolute man, James Noel Holland, Earl of Tyne, and the golden-haired young Edward, his ward or perhaps his son. Homosexuality, sadomasochism, and incest are elements in their relationship and so are affection, love, and the saving quality of grace. The time of the story is the beginning of the nineteenth century the pre-Regency years of domestic unrest, of the Napoleonic Wars, and of lawlessness, cruelty, and the vast chasm between the rulers and the ruled. Condition: Inscribed on front end paper and signed on verso. Corners and edges bumped. Jacket spine ends and corners rubbed else a very good copy in like jacket. Seller Inventory # L0632a

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