Lettice Sandford (born Lettice Mackintosh Rate; 1902–1993) was a draftsman, wood-engraver, pioneer

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revivalist and watercolourist of her beloved Herefordshire. She was a daughter of Lachlan Mackintosh Rate of

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, Surrey, a director of the Imperial

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, the central bank of the Ottoman Empire, and wife of

Christopher Sandford Christopher Sandford (1902–1983) of Eye Manor, Herefordshire, was a book designer, proprietor of the Golden Cockerel Press, a founding director of the Folio Society, and husband of the wood engraver and pioneer Corn dolly revivalist, Lettice San ...

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, Herefordshire, proprietor of the

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, for which she provided wood-engravings. She was the mother of playwright

Jeremy Sandford Christopher Jeremy Sandford (5 December 1930 – 12 May 2003) was an English television screenwriter who came to prominence in 1966 with ''Cathy Come Home'', his controversial entry in BBC1's ''The Wednesday Play'' anthology strand, which wa ...

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'', 15 December 1993. * Sandford, Christopher & Sandford, Lettice: ''The Magic Forest : a story'' ith wood engravings London: Chiswick Press, 1931. * Sandford, Lettice: ''Coo my Doo''. London: Frederick Muller, 1943. * Sandford, Lettice & Davis, Philla: ''Decorative straw work and corn dollies''. London: Batsford, 1964. * Sandford, Lettice & Davis, Philla: ''Corn dollies and how to make them''. New ed. Hereford: Herefordshire Federation of Women's Institutes, 1966. * Sandford, Lettice: ''Straw Work and Corn Dollies''. London: Batsford, 1974. * Dyer, Anne, Sandford, Lettice & Edwards, Zena: ''Country Crafts''. London: Macdonald Educational, 1979. * Sandford, Lettice: ''Wood Engravings''. Pinner: David Chambers, 1985. * Sandford, Jeremy: ''Figures and Landscapes: the art of Lettice Sandford''. London: Roc Sandford, 1991. 1902 births 1993 deaths 20th-century British printmakers 20th-century English women artists 20th-century engravers British engravers British illustrators English wood engravers English watercolourists English women painters People from Surrey Women engravers Women watercolorists {{England-painter-stub