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No Dove Lost
Posted by Guy Fairbank on 5th April 2022 in Literature | hammersmith,hammersmith bridge,doves press,emery walker,cobden-sanderson,arts and crafts,hammersmith terrace,printing,the dove,dove hammersmith
Emery Walker House
During the First World War, if you’d been walking across Hammersmith Bridge at night you might have spotted a shifty looking gentleman surreptitiously throwing bits of metal off the bridge and into the River Thames. This mysterious dumper was a disgruntled bookbinder by the name of Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, who died 100 years ago this year. As for the metal, they were his collection of doves Type, a beautifully designed font created with his partner Emery Walker.
In the last years of the 19th century Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson (1840-1922) decided to abandon his life as a barrister and become a bookbinder. With his wif...![travellers-choice-2023-logo [travellers-choice-2023-logo.png]](/uploads/tcbr_white_bf_logo_ll_2025_rgb-white.png){kind=logo}