T. J. Cobden-Sanderson

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T. J. Cobden-Sanderson
Doves Type
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(m. 1882)​
Page from the Doves Bible by Cobden Sanderson
A book binding by Cobden-Sanderson

Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson (

bookbinder associated with the Arts and Crafts movement
.

Life

Sanderson was born in

Manchester University) and then Trinity College, Cambridge to study law.[1] He left without taking a degree, and entered Lincoln's Inn as a barrister. In 1882 he married (Julia Sarah) Anne Cobden, a socialist, and daughter of Richard Cobden, and they both took the surname Cobden-Sanderson.[3]

As a friend of

letterpress
books, including a five-volume Doves Bible.

By 1909 Cobden-Sanderson and his partner Emery Walker were at the height of a protracted and bitter dispute involving the rights to the Doves Type in the dissolution of their partnership. As part of the partnership dissolution agreement, all rights to the Doves Type were to pass to Emery Walker upon the death of Cobden-Sanderson. Yet, when the press closed in 1916 Cobden-Sanderson threw the type along with its punches and matrices into the Thames. In this time, as there was no digitization, destroying the punches and matrices constituted destroying the typeface itself.

Until recently the Doves Typeface was thought to have been lost forever.[5] However, a digital version of the typeface was painstakingly recreated by Robert Green from 2010 to 2013.

Thames near Hammersmith Bridge with help from the Port of London Authority, Green managed to recover 150 pieces of the original type.[7][8]

Cobden-Sanderson was a friend of

First World War on the side of the United Kingdom, Cobden-Sanderson sent an encouraging letter of support ('with old and constant affection') expressing that he wished Russell's mother was alive to see her son's actions, part of what he considered 'a life fitted to the wonderful scene about (Russell)'.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b "Sanderson (post Cobden-Sanderson), Thomas James (SNDR860TJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ The Bookbindings of T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, Marianne Tidcombe, The British Library, 1984, pg 1
  3. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/56224. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  4. ^ Preston, Emily (April 1902). "T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and the Doves Bindery". The Craftsman (Eastwood, N.Y.). 2 (1).
  5. S2CID 142352700
    .
  6. ^ "The fight over the Doves". The Economist. 21 December 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  7. ^ Steven, Rachael (3 February 2015). "Recovering the Doves Type". CreativeReview Blog. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  8. ^ Wilmshurst, Nick (7 February 2015). "Lost typeface printing blocks found in river Thames". BBC News. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  9. ^ a b The Life of Bertrand Russell, Ronald W. Clark, Penguin Books, 1978, pg 424
  10. ^ The Life of Bertrand Russell, Ronald W. Clark, Penguin Books, 1978, pg 27-8

Further reading

External links
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