The Doves Press was founded in 1890 by Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker in Hammersmith, a district of London. Walker is best known for creating the Doves type, which the press used in their printing. Some of Walker's typeface was also used by the Ashendene Press. In 1893, the Doves Bindery was set up in order to bind the books that Cobden-Sanderson and Walker printed. As such, Doves Press books also became known for their binding. The Doves Press closed in 1916. Cobden-Sanderson famously discarded the Doves type into the River Thames following the dissolution of his partnership with Walker in 1908.
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The ideal book or book beautiful, a tract on calligraphy, printing, and illustration & on the book beautiful as a whole by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson
Call Number: Special Collections Stacks | Z116.A3 C63 1900
Publication Date: 1900
William Morris : an address delivered the XIth November MDCCCC at Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, before the Hammersmith Socialist Society by J. W. Mackail
Call Number: Special Collections Stacks | PR5083 .M33 1901
Publication Date: 1901
The English Bible : containing the Old Testament & the New / translated out of the original tongues by special command of His Majesty King James the First and now reprinted with the text revised by a collation of its early and other principal editions by editor Rev. F.H. Scrivener M.A. LL. D. for the syndics of the University Press Cambridge
Call Number: Rare Folio | BS185 1903 .H3 1903
Publication Date: 1903-1905
Catalogue raisonné of books printed & published at the Doves press, 1900-1916 by The Doves Press
Call Number: Special Collections Stacks | Z232.C65 D6 1916
Publication Date: 1916
