Sanderson’s type recovered from the River Thames
“This venerable figure, founder of the legendary Doves Press and the mastermind of its typeface, was a man named T.J. Cobden Sanderson. And he was taking the metal type that he had painstakingly overseen and dumping thousands of pounds of it into the river.”
http://gizmodo.com/the-gorgeous-typeface-that-drove-men-mad-and-sparked-...
And a film from the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31534032
This was previously discussed here:
http://briarpress.org/41441