MANT, Catherine Alicia. The Cottage In The Chalk Pit [c.1830/40s].

MANT, Catherine Alicia (1788-1869).  The Cottage In The Chalk Pit. 

“Residing in one of the largest and best conditioned houses in Broad-street, and enjoying every comfort and advantage that opulence could afford, the young family of Mr Gardiner passed the years of their infancy and childhood.Mr Gardiner was a partner in one of the first mercantile houses in the city: his character for probity and honour, in his commercial transactions, was not more established, than were his manners for those of a gentleman in private society”. 

Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece. 

Interior: Occasional light spotting, marks,  and foxing, offsetting from frontispiece to title page, general internal wear (Front endpapers detached, frontispiece detached, contents page detached).

Exterior: Publisher’s brown cloth (wear and fading to cloth).

8vo. London: Harvey and Darton [no date. c. 1830/40s].

A charming and SCARCE early victorian work. 

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