1991 The Summer of the Royal Visit

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First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, With Dustwrapper

The signed first edition of The Summer of the Royal Visit, by English novelist Isabel Colegate. Published in 1991 by Hamish Hamilton

In the publisher's original cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The author's signature on the title page.

Author of the BBC adapted The Shooting Party, Colegate specialises in telling stories involving high society. In this novel, Colegate tells a dramatisation of Queen Victoria's visit to Bath, involving both rumours, imposters and clairvoyants. Colegate lived in Bath for nearly half a century, and her husband was a long-time chair of the Bath Preservation Trust.