The Doves Press
by Marianne Tidcombe · first published 2002
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"The Doves Press is the fullest account to date of this, the first and most famous private press of the twentieth century." "Beginning with the full text of T.J. Cobden-Sanderson's 'The Ideal Book', and its author's reaction to the books printed by Willam Morris at the Kelmscott Press, The Doves Press tells the story of the cutting of the famous Doves type, the printing of Paradise Lost, Paradise Regain'd, and The English Bible, and Cobden-Sanderson's close collaboration with the calligrapher Edward Johnston. The saga of Cobden-Sanderson's short and stormy partnership with Emery Walker is reco
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No I mean the Doves Press which Marianne Tidcombe wrote after her work on the Doves Bindery. I'll admit it is expensive at around £70, but I've seen copies for £40 http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Doves-Press-Marianne-Tidcombe/dp...
on “One man's obsession with rediscovering the Doves typeface” ↗…preview of the font and on page 6, there is a more detailed and also concise summary of the history of the type from Robert Green himself. It's worth a read. He finishes with this.. 'In reading about the Doves Press on the internet there is a danger of consuming the story as fiction. I could not have undertaken this digital recreation or the task of recovering the real type without hard facts. I found these in Marianne…
on “One man's obsession with rediscovering the Doves typeface” ↗