Christopher Sandford of Eye Manor, Herefordshire (1902-1983), book designer, was 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 Sandford, née Mackintosh Rate. Eye Manor, at Eye Herefordshire, is a Carolean or Restoration style Manor house that was described by Lord Euston as 'The perfect Golden Cockerel Press was a major English Private press operating between 1920 and 1961 The Folio Society is a publisher of fine books based in London Wood engraving is a Relief printing technique where the end grain of Wood is used as a medium for Engraving, thus differing from the older technique of Corn dollies are a form of Straw work made for and associated with Harvest customs of Europe before mechanisation Lettice Sandford, née Mackintosh Rate (1902-1993 was a draftsman wood-engraver pioneer Corn dolly revivalist and watercolourist of her beloved Herefordshire He was born in Cork, Ireland, son of Professor Arthur Wellesley Sandford and Mary Carbery, the Irish author. Cork (Corcaigh is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland and the island of Ireland 's third most populous city after Dublin and Belfast Mary Carbery (1867-1949 pen name and married name of Mary Vanessa Toulmin who married first Algernon 9th Baron Carbery of Castle Freke County Cork Ireland and second Professor He was the father of the playwright and musician, Jeremy Sandford. Jeremy Sandford ( December 5 1930 &ndash May 12 2003) was an English Television writer who came to prominence in 1966 with
References
- Printing for Love, Christopher Sandford, in Books and Printing, ed. Paul A. Bennet, World Publishing Co, Cleveland, Ohio, 1963
- A History of the Golden Cockerel Press, R. Cave & S. Manson, The British Library and The Oak Knoll Press, 2002
- Obituary, Christopher Sandford, The Times, 21 March 1983
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