Allan 53 Longprimer Olive Green Highland Goatskin FIRST EDITION > 53 OLV (Ships from 13 January)

Allan 53 Longprimer Olive Green Highland Goatskin FIRST EDITION

Product Code
53 OLV (Ships from 13 January)

Product Description

NEW for 2026. Shipping from 13 January 2026.

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.

In recent years, we have reverted to a vintage copy of the classic Longprimer, printed in the period 1952-1958 under Charles Batey, then Printer to the University of Oxford, returning to a page image that is much closer to the original intentions of the typesetters. This new-old page image retains the large, clear type of the Longprimer we all know and love, but has a crisper 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, highly opaque 36gsm India Paper * Large, crisp black letter type * 100,000 centre column chain references with dates above * Three cypress green ribbon markers * Red under gold page edges * Stamped 'FIRST EDITION' inside back cover * 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 150 mm)  

Spine width: 1 3/4 inch thick (45 mm) 

Type size: 10/11pt large, clear print

Boxed weight: 1.4 kg