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Doves Press

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The opening page from the Doves Press Bible (1903).
The opening page from the Doves Press Bible (1903).

The Doves Press was an English fine printing press founded in 1900 by Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker. It was part of the private-press movement, which emerged in response to the decline in book design quality due to industrialization. The Doves Press aimed to recapture the beauty and high standards of early printing.1234

The press is renowned for its restrained splendor and its masterpiece, the Doves Bible (1903–05). Cobden-Sanderson and Walker designed an exceptional typeface based on the 15th-century roman type of Nicolas Jenson. The partnership ended in 1909, and the press closed in 1916. To prevent its unique type from being used, Cobden-Sanderson famously threw the type into the River Thames.123

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  1. Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson
  2. graphic design - William Morris and the private-press movement
  3. Sir Emery Walker
  4. typography - The private-press movement

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