JENNER, Thomas

by Thomas Jenner

£1,750 · Offered by Sokol Books

Rare first edition of this interesting work on fisheries and the lack of their exploitation by the British fishing industry, an important early treatise in the benefits of concerted investment in a particular industry. The work set out in eight clear points why such an investment would be beneficial from an Encrease in Shipping and an Encrease of private Wealth to an Encrease of Power abroad . Jenner was one of the main London print publishers and sellers; his active career spanned over half a century. His beginnings remain obscure. He was a member of the Grocers Company, and was possibly the Thomas Jenneu, son of James, who received his freedom in 1619. His earliest publication, a portrait by Delaram (Hind II 229.28), is securely dated to 1618. There are strong reasons for thinking that he took over the short-lived business of Maurice Blount which was at the same address. The prints made for him in 1621 by Willem de Passe, who was married to an Elisabeth Jennerts presumably a relation were the finest produced in London at the time, and were entered into the Stationers register on his behalf by George Fairbeard. Jenner still produced some significant plates in the 1630s (eg the portrait of the Earl of Northumberland by Cornelis van Dalen, Hind III 254.5), but his stock went steadily down-market over the years, and by his death he was only a marginal figure. .. In 1651 he wrote a political pamphlet, London s blame if not its shame , attacking supine government policy over the

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