India paper is no more! A few years ago I bought from Cambridge the last few hundred sheets of their very fine KJV Pitt Minion text setting. One of the selling points for me was that it had been printed on
real India paper, something you don't find nowadays. 'Real' india paper had rag content and was marvellously thin and strong. Modern lightweight, acid-free 'India' papers are designed for web offset printing and are more environmentally friendly.
The Allan Pitt Minion text Bible also had the elusive 'Pure Cambridge text', that will-o-the-wisp setting which seems to carry added cachet for KJV aficionados. Now out of print, it was bound in
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I remember my saintly mother telling a ‘fib’ only once. (This is a British expression for ‘misspeaking’, as some politicians are wont to say.)
A missionary was visiting our family home for Sunday lunch after church. My mother had bought a delicious-looking apple pie from the local bakery for dessert. It looked home made, but it wasn’t.
“Would you be baking this delicious pie, Lois?” said the missionary. “Sure”, she said, “Momma’s apple pie!” and glared at me in case the boy gave the game away.
Now it’s my turn to confess. As you may know, our best bibles are bound in
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When Robert Allan first opened the doors of his Bible publishing office on Glasgow's famous Sauchiehall Street back in 1863, he could hardly have dreamed that almost 150 years later, those same storefront premises would house a French patisserie selling continental delicacies.
In 1903 a couple of blocks away, my grandfather started work as a Christian publisher, and then in 1970 my father merged our family business with the Allan Bible firm .
Robert Allan was a 'King James' man - in Victorian times there wasn't much choice. The KJV was The Bible, so R. L .Allan became known for our fine-bound Authorized Version Bibles, and still are
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