Place    From 1900 

Doves Press

Categories: Literature

See Doves Bindery. Our picture shows the only remaining piece of the Doves type, or did until 2015, when some more was retrieved - see Doves Bindery.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Doves Press

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Doves Bindery and Press

Initially (ha-ha) we were puzzled by the letters at the bottom of this plaque...

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Thomas Cobden-Sanderson

Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, 1840-1922, founded the Doves Bindery and Doves...

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