[Jenner (Charles)] The Placid Man: or, Memoirs of Sir Charles Beville, 2 vol., first edition, ink ownership inscription cut away from front free endpapers, occasional light foxing or browning, contemporary calf, spines with dark red morocco label, small loss to head of spines, few light stains, little rubbed with some wear to corners, vol. 1 joints split at head but holding firm, [ESTC T57338; Rothschild 1199], large 12mo, for J. Wilkie, 1770.
⁂ Jenner's only novel, with which he achieved some moderate success, scarce. The work is interesting in its extended comments on contemporary writing and novelists. For Jenner, all contemporary novelists fall into one of two schools of influence: Richardson or Fielding. The superior camp is that of "the ingenious Mr. Henry Fielding, whose memory ought to be as dear to every novel-writer, as his authority ought to be respectable".
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