Sir Christopher Wren and his times: with illustrative sketches and anecdotes of the most distinguished personages in the seventeenth century
Sir Christopher Wren and his times is a 1852 London biography by James Elmes, published by Chapman & Hall, that gathers sketches and anecdotes of seventeenth-century figures for a general reading public. Its pictures are restrained steel-engraved style plates: a heraldic achievement with a lion and unicorn supporters and a ribbon motto, and a bewigged portrait bust set against plain shading. A designer might take from them the period vocabulary of formal heraldry and tonal portrait engraving.
