Roughly a century ago, T. J. Cobden-Sanderson marked the end of the Doves Press by throwing the beautiful typeface that he had created into the River Thames. Inspired by the example of William Morris’s Kelmscott Press, and modelled on type created in Venice in the 1470s, the font had been used to print works by Shakespeare and Milton, as well as a five-volume Bible.

Now, remarkably, an enthusiast for the Doves typeface, who had already gone to the trouble of creating a digital version, has gone fishing for the font, and has recovered  no fewer than 150 pieces from their watery bed in the Thames. You can read the full story here.