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Lettice Sandford (British, 1902-1983) Illustration for "The Golden Bed of Kydno" wood engraving h:22 w:14 cm Literature: Illustration from "The Golden Bed of Kydno", translated from the Modern Greek of Evadne Lascaris by P Mathers and illustrated with twelve line-engravings by Lettice Sandford pub. The Golden Cockerel Press, 1935 Other Notes: As a girl, Lettice Rate studied at the Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole School of Art, and later, with an interest in book illustration, at the Art Section of the Chelsea Polytechnic. Here she worked under Percy Jowett, who had earlier taught her at her boarding school in north London. She was taught engraving on wood by Robert Day, and etching by Graham Sutherland. On a skiing holiday in Switzerland, she met the printer, Christopher Sandford, and they were married in 1929. Together they ran the Boar's Head Press whose books were printed at the Chiswick Press, of which Christopher Sandford was a Director.