Tim: A Story of Eton
London: McMillan (1891). 318pp.
Item #9196
The first of the "Arcadian" English public-school novels written four years before the Wilde prosecution. The story revolves around the love between two Eton boys- "thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women." Forrest Reid, among others, admired the work and admitted that it emboldened him to write his Garden God on a similar theme. Edward Prime-Stevenson called the book "strikingly pathetic, graceful and delicately written." It was also much admired by E. M. Forster, Henry James and Edith Wharton. The book was written pseudonymously and went through several printings. Laid in is a 3pp ALS from Sturgis to a cousin (dated Queen's Acre Windsor, 1917), enclosing an ink portrait of the recipient's mother done by Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Bruce Hamley KCB KCMG (1824 –1893). Bookplate on endpaper of Algernon Drummond (who was a student of William Johnson Cory and the composer of the "Eton Boating Song.")
Very good in original blue boards, slight spine roll, light bumps to edges, light fraying to edges. Young 3696*.
Price: $1,400.00