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Christopher Sandford

Christopher Sandford

British book designer and publisher

For the actor, see Chris Sandford. For the biographer, see Christopher Sandford (biographer).

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 Sandford, née Mackintosh Rate. During the war he organised preparations for underground resistance from Eye Manor in the event of a Nazi invasion.

Biography

He was born in Cork, Ireland, son of Professor Arthur Wellesley Sandford and Mary Carbery, the Anglo-Irish author. By her first marriage he had a half-brother in the Happy Valley set in Kenya. He married engraver Lettice Mackintosh Rate in 1929.[1] Their son was playwright and musician, Jeremy Sandford.[2]

References

Notes

  1. [1]
    "Obituary: Lettice Sandford". Independent.co.uk. 7 December 1993. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  2. [2]
    "Sandford, (Christopher) Jeremy (1930–2003), writer - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/90003. Retrieved 17 February 2018. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Other sources

  • "Printing for Love", Sandford, C. in Books and Printing (1963), Bennett, Paul A. (ed), World Publishing Co, Cleveland, Ohio
  • A History of the Golden Cockerel Press (2002), Cave, R. and Manson, S., British Library and Oak Knoll Press
  • The Mercian Maquis (2002), Lowry, B. and Mick Wilks, M. (2002), Logaston Press
  • The Last Ditch: Britain's Resistance Plans Against the Nazis (1968), Lampe, D., Cassell
  • "Obituary: Christopher Sandford" in The Times, 21 March 1983


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