In 1900, two friends in the flourishing Arts and Crafts Movement in London share a vision: to print the ultimate edition of the Bible. Together they create The Doves Press, and its unique font, Doves. But in their quest to make something beautiful, the friends spiral towards an act of incredible ugliness.
Further reading
Marianne Tidcombe The Doves Press
JP Romney and Rebecca Romney Printers Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History
Simon Garfield Just My Type
Michael Hornby, in Doves Press: The Start of a Worry Edited by Colin Frankin
Carole Cable, “The Printing Types of the Doves Press: Their History and Destruction,” Library Quarterly 44:3 (July 1974), 219-230.
John Dreyfus, ‘A reconstruction of the lecture given by Emery Walker on 15 November 1888’, Matrix 11 (Leominster: The Whittington Press, 1991), pp. 27–52.
Review of “The Doves Press by Marianne Tidcombe” by Marcella D. Genz The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy, Vol. 74, No. 1 (January 2004), pp. 91-93 (4 pages)
“The Fight Over the Doves” The Economist 19 December 2013
Justin Quirk, “X Marks the Spot,” Sunday Times, Jan. 11, 2015
BBC News “One man’s obsession with rediscovering the lost Doves type”:
