Author: [JENNER Charles)]:
Title: Letters from Altamont in the Capital, to His Friend in the Country.
Description: London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, in the Strand, 1767. ?FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 156 x 96 mms., pp. xi [xii blank], 272, contemporary calf, red leather label; binding slightly worn, corners crushed, front joint slightly cracked, but firm; a good copy, with two inscriptions on the title-page in the same hand: "Cavendish Socity/ 1767/" and "J Young." Reviewed in The Critical Review for 1767: "These letters are in general written with taste and sentiment; and contains several pertinent remarks on the manners of t he Capital. They afford some instances of that pleasing simplicity of thought, which an observation of the world may naturally be supposed to waken in the mind of a person who has lived extracted from society; and an acquaintance with false refinement; and whose understanding is untainted with the prejudice of popular customs, as his heart with the depravity of mankind." The notice in The Monthly Review was rather less bland and more perceptive: "As the the merit of his observations, we shall briefly say, that in our opinion they speak the juvenility of the Writer; from whom better things may be expected, when farther experience, and more extensive knowlege shall have matured his judgment." The writer and poet Charles Jenner, who was also the author of libretti for Handel, including The Messiah, was 41 in 1767.

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