In 1900, two friends from London’s thriving Arts and Crafts Movement share their vision. It is to print the ultimate edition of the Bible. Together, create a pigeon press and its unique font, pigeon. But in their quest to make something beautiful, their friends spiraled towards an incredible act of ugability.
Read more
Marianne Tidcombe The pigeon presses
JP Romney and Rebecca Romney Printer Error: An Irreverent Story from the History of the Book
Simon Garfield Just my type
Michael Hornby, Indian Doves Press: The Beginning of Worry Edited by Colin Frankin
Carol Cable, “Put Print Types: Their History and Destruction,” Library quarter 44:3 (July 1974), 219-230.
John Dreyfus, “Reconstruction of the Lectures given by Emery Walker on November 15th, 1888”, Matrix 11 (Leminster: Whittington Press, 1991), pp. 27–52.
review Quarterly quarter of “The Doves Press by Marianne Tidcombe” by Marcella D.: Information, Community, Policy, Vol. 74, No. 1 (January 2004), pages 91-93 (pages 4)
“The battle over pigeons” economist December 19, 2013
Justin Keek, “X marks the spot,” Sunday TimesJanuary 11, 2015
BBC News”One man’s obsession with rediscovering lost pigeon types”:
