Cautionary Tales – “Dangerously close to to absolute perfection”


In 1900, two mates within the flourishing Arts and Crafts Motion in London share a imaginative and prescient: to print the final word version of the Bible. Collectively they create The Doves Press, and its distinctive font, Doves. However of their quest to make one thing stunning, the buddies spiral in direction of an act of unbelievable ugliness. 

Additional studying

Marianne Tidcombe The Doves Press

JP Romney and Rebecca Romney Printers Error: Irreverent Tales from Guide Historical past

Simon Garfield Simply My Kind

Michael Hornby, in Doves Press: The Begin of a Fear Edited by Colin Frankin

Carole Cable, “The Printing Forms of the Doves Press: Their Historical past 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.

Evaluation of “The Doves Press by Marianne Tidcombe” by Marcella D. Genz The Library Quarterly: Data, Group, Coverage, Vol. 74, No. 1 (January 2004), pp. 91-93 (4 pages)

The Combat Over the DovesThe Economist 19 December 2013

Justin Quirk, “X Marks the Spot,” Sunday Occasions, Jan. 11, 2015

BBC Information “One man’s obsession with rediscovering the misplaced Doves kind”:

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