| Date: 1900 Designer:
T.J. Cobden Sanderson / Emery Walker / Edward Prince Foundry:
Doves Press Location:
London, England Current equivalent:
Doves by Torbjörn Olsson
See also:
ATF / Ludlow Nicolas Jenson, Eusebius, Cloister Old Style (shown above), Golden Type, Montaigne Type Technologies:
Metal (foundry) | | Famous for:
A legendary late 19th century recut of Jenson's roman. Applications: Prestige and Private Press Ubiquity:
Very rarely used Category:
Venetian Roman Stress: Angled
Serifs: Oblique | | Design history:
Although William Morris's Golden Type predated this design, it is thought that the Doves Type was more faithful to the design of the original Venetian type of the fifteenth century. Punches were cut by Edward Prince on the instructions of Walker and Cobden Sanderson in a single size and weight only, and used for printing the Doves Press edition of the Bible. This celebrated type was used privately for sixteen years and never released to the general trade. It was lost to history forever when Cobden Sanderson threw the entire font into the Thames river, provoking a bitter argument with his business partner, the master printer Emery Walker. | |  |
