Monday, May 10, 2010

Lettice Sandford, née Mackintosh Rate, (1902-1993) ..illustrations




Lettice Sandford was born Lettice Mackintosh Rate in St Albans, Hertfordshire. She was one of the foremost female wood engravers of the between-the-wars engraving boom, and illustrated many fine press editions; her husband Christopher Sandford was proprietor of the Golden Cockerel Press one of my favourites along with Black Sun Press.
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from Song of Songs


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from The Golden Bed of Kydno 

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