Edward Prince

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File:Doves Press Bible.jpg
A printing of the Bible from the Doves Press. The body text type is the "Doves Type", cut into metal by Prince.
File:Kelmscott Press Typefaces.jpg
Prince's Golden Type, cut for William Morris, among other typefaces used by the Kelmscott Press.

Edward Philip Prince (1846–1923) was a British engraver and punchcutter, a cutter of the punches used to stamp the matrices used to cast metal type.[1][2][3][4][5]

Working during the period of the Arts and Crafts movement, after William Morris's Kelmscott Press commissioned him to cut a typeface known as the Golden Type to Morris's design he became known for cutting private typefaces for fine book printing presses.[6] Another client was the Doves Press, whose Doves Type he cut; it was famously thrown into the Thames following a business disagreement.[7][8] He also worked with the Ashendene Press to cut the Subiaco and Ptolemy types.[9] A somewhat retiring figure, only two photographs of him are known to exist.[10]

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