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in London, a short walk from the press. In the journals of Cobden-Sanderson, however, he recorded that he began the destruction of the typeface matrices and punches three years later, beginning on 31 August 1916 at midnight, when "it seemed a suitable night, and time". He is said to have completed
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By 1909, on the dissolution of their partnership, Cobden-Sanderson and Walker were in a protracted and bitter dispute involving the rights to Doves Type. As part of the partnership dissolution agreement, all rights to Doves Type were to pass to Walker upon the death of Cobden-Sanderson. Instead of
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that Cobden-Sanderson had set up in 1893 bound the books he and Walker printed. The press produced all its books using a single 16-point size of this house typeface between 1900 and 1916. The press is considered to have been a significant contributor to the
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The first digital revival of Doves Type was made in 1994 by
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In 2013, designer Robert Green began to create a more polished digital version of Doves Type. In 2015, after searching the riverbed of the Thames near
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Cobden-Sanderson had commissioned the press's own typeface – Doves Type – that was drawn under the supervision of Walker. The Doves
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Two variants of Green's re-created Doves Type, Text and
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Other digital revival projects include "Mebinac" by Alan
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to join him). Their partnership was dissolved in 1908, but Cobden-Sanderson continued printing.
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