A. S. Byatt [Antonia Susan Duffy] — The Virgin in the Garden

London, Chatto & Windus, 1978. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Dame Antonia Susan Duffy"s third novel revolving around a play about Queen Elizabeth I, written under her well-known pseudonym A. S. Byatt, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. First edition.Complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper.This work is the second novel within the 'Frederica Potter' quartet which follows the dynamic between two sisters. This novel in particular is set during the same year as the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and revolves around a play around Elizabeth I of England. A. S. Byatt is an English novelist, poet, as well as Booker Prize Winner. 'The Times' named her as one of the fifty greatest British writers since 1945 in 2008. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, lovely, with the slightest bumping to extremities. Dust wrapper, excellent, with the slightest trace of shelf wear to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.