Allan KJV 44 Longprimer Thinline Purple Goatskin Bible, Silverline Edition

Description

Our popular KJV Longprimer Thinline Bible in a new natural grain goatskin edition for 2025, lined with Meriva calfskin.

Silver Line edition with Purple goatskin, purple Meriva calfskin liner and purple ribbons.

This elegant Thinline edition of our Longprimer Bible is printed in the Netherlands by Jongbloed on a lightweight, high opacity 28gsm Bible paper to create a slimmer, more portable Bible.

The 44 P is bound by Jongbloed in Purple natural grain goatskin with generous semi-yapp and blue under silver page edges, leather-lined in purple Meriva calfskin with silver gilt line inside and three purple ribbon markers. It includes Allan presentation pages and family record, dictionary of proper names, subject index, concordance, 32 pages of Allan feint lined writing paper and 16 pages of Oxford Bible maps.

First printed in 1952, the King James Version Longprimer Bible is a sumptuous, traditional reference setting of the Authorized Version. Developed by Oxford University Press and now published exclusively by R. L. Allan, it has for many years been our flagship Bible, renowned the world over for its clarity of type and our beautiful bindings.

Based on a vintage copy of the classic Longprimer, printed in the period 1952-1958 under Charles Batey, then Printer to the University of Oxford, the page image is as close as possible to the original intentions of the typesetters, emphasising the much-loved large, clear type of the Longprimer. It has a crisp letter form and less of the broken type and ‘spread’ that mark out much-used letterpress typesettings subsequently transferred to film, and only more recently to digital scans.

Printed on best quality, lightweight yet highly opaque 28gsm India Paper * Large, crisp black letter type * 100,000 centre column chain references with dates above * Three purple ribbon markers * Blue under silver page edges * 16 pages of full colour Oxford Bible maps * Concordance, subject index and dictionary of proper names * Exclusively available in Allan’s fine leather bindings.

Page size:  8 3/4 x 6 inches (221 x 150mm)
Spine width: 1 1/4 inch thick (32mm)
Type size: 10/11pt large, clear print
Boxed weight: 1.1kg