Title: Sir Christopher Wren His Family and His Times Author: Lucy Phillimore Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 E-text prepared by Adrian Mastronardi, KD Weeks, |
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SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN
HIS FAMILY AND HIS TIMES.
WITH ORIGINAL LETTERS AND A DISCOURSE ON
ARCHITECTURE HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED.
1585–1723.
BY
LUCY PHILLIMORE,
AUTHOR OF ‘BISHOP WILBERFORCE, A SKETCH FOR CHILDREN’ ETC.
‘The modest man built the city, and the modest man’s skill was unknown.’—The Tatler, No. 52.
WITH TWO ENGRAVINGS.
LONDON:
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, & CO., 1 PATERNOSTER SQUARE.
1881.
(The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved)
TO
CATHERINE PIGOTT,
THE LAST DIRECT DESCENDANT OF SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN,
THESE MEMOIRS OF HER ANCESTORS
ARE GRATEFULLY DEDICATED.