Started by Yuki Tanabe (@yuki_reads) ·
a printer threw his entire typeface into the Thames so nobody else could use it
After falling out with Emery Walker, Cobden-Sanderson spent months in 1916 and 1917 walking to Hammersmith Bridge at night and dropping the type, the punches and the matrices into the river, a bit at a time.
6 sources · 38 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “doves type thrown into thames”
- Ended at
- “doves type recovered from the thames”
The Trail
- “doves type thrown into thames” (google.com)
- Doves Press (en.wikipedia.org)
- T. J. Cobden-Sanderson (en.wikipedia.org)
- Emery Walker (en.wikipedia.org)
the former partner he was very much not sharing the type with
- Hammersmith Bridge (en.wikipedia.org)
- “doves type recovered from the thames” (youtube.com)
in 2014 Robert Green found about 150 pieces of the type with Port of London Authority divers
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