How the Doves Type was lost - and then found - in the River Thames

The Doves Press was a private printing press based in Hammersmith, jointly founded at the start of the 20th Century by engraver Emery Walker and bookbinder TJ Cobden-Sanderson.
A full set of Doves Type - regarded as the most influential Arts & Crafts typeface and was used to print The Doves Bible, among other books - has never before been exhibited anywhere in the world before 2024.
That’s because Cobden-Sanderson threw the set of metal letters into the river during an estimated 170 clandestine nighttime trips to Hammersmith Bridge following a major falling-out between him and Walker.
Individual letters of the old type have been recovered down the years by mudlarkers exploring the river’s margins at low tide, and now a full set has been assembled. It then made it's public debut at an exhibition at Emery Walkers' House in Hammersmith - which is now a museum.