T. J. Cobden-Sanderson founded the Doves Bindery in 1893, but had expanded into printing by 1900, in which year he invited Emery Walker to become his partner at the Doves Press. Both men had previously been associated with William Morris's Kelmscott Press. Their collaboration continued until 1909, at which point they fell out over the rights to the famous Doves type, which Walker had designed for the Press. Walker played no further part in the Press; Cobden-Sanderson continued on alone, but in 1913 threw the matrices for the type into the Thames, and between 1916 and 1917 he did the same with the type itself.

Special Collections has the following items printed at or published by the Doves Press:

• Doves Press. Catalogue Raisonné of Books Printed & Published at the Doves Press, No. 1, the Terrace, Hammersmith. Hammersmith: 1908. Z232.C65 D 1908
• The English Bible, Containing the Old Testament & the New, Translated out of the Original Tongues by Special Command of His Majesty James the First. Vol. III. Hammersmith: 1904. [Single leaf only]. Z232.C65 C2
• Goethe, Johann. Auserlesene Lieder, Gedichte, und Balladen: Ein Strauss. Hammersmith: 1916. [Single leaf only] Z232.C65 C2
• Milton, John. Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England. Hammersmith: 1907. PR3570 .A7 1644c
• Ruskin, John. Unto This Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy. Hammersmith: 1907. HB161 .R95 1907
• Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Coriolanvs. Hammersmith: 1914. PR2805 .A1 1914
• Winship, George. William Caxton: A Paper Read at a Meeting of the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston, Massachusetts, U. S. A., in January M.D.C.C.C.C.V.I.I.I. Hammersmith: 1909. Z232.C38 W5 1909

Special Collections has the following secondary resources relating to the Doves Press:

• Doves Press. Catalogue Raisonné of Books Printed & Published at the Doves Press, No. 1, the Terrace, Hammersmith. Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1908. Z232.C65 D 1908
• Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. The Ideal Book, or, Book Beautiful: A Tract on Calligraphy, Printing and Illustration and on the Book Beautiful as a Whole. New York: 1929. Z116.A3 C7 1929
• Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. The Journals of Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson: 1879-1922. New York: Macmillan, 1926. Z232 .C65 1926
• Dreyfus, John. Cobden-Sanderson’s partnership with Emery Walker, by John Dreyfus. Harper Woods: Adagio Press, 1969. Z232.C65 C2
• Ransom, Will. Kelmscott, Doves and Ashendene: The Private Press Credos. Los Angeles: The Typophiles, 1952. Z231 .R35 1952
• Strouse, Norman H. C-S the master craftsman. : An account of the work of T. J. Cobden-Sanderson / by Norman H. Strouse. Harper Woods: Adagio Press, 1969. Z232.C65 C2