The Doves Press

"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…