He only wanted to commit his designs to the "most beautiful words"
February 18, 2015 9:55 AM Subscribe
The Gorgeous Typeface That Drove Men Mad and Sparked a 100-Year Mystery. Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan on the destruction and recovery of the Doves typeface.
Over the course of more than a hundred illicit nightly trips, this man was committing a crime—against his partner, a man who owned half of what was being heaved into the Thames, and against himself, the force that had spurred its creation. This venerable figure, founder of the legendary Doves Press and the mastermind of its typeface, was a man named T.J. Cobden Sanderson. And he was taking the metal type that he had painstakingly overseen and dumping thousands of pounds of it into the river.
This post was deleted for the following reason: *lights clove cigarette, adjusts ironic vintage coat* "i only read first editions" -- cortex
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