Allan 43 Longprimer Thinline Purple Highland Goatskin with Red Liner > 43 P R (Sold Out)
Allan 43 Longprimer Thinline Purple Highland Goatskin with Red Liner
Product Code
43 P R (Sold Out)
Product Description
Final copies discounted to £145 (from £185) for marks/variations on the gilding, minor leather imperfections on cover inside or out and some copies may have a little art gilt bleed (but text is unaffected).
New colourway for 2023 with contrasting red liner and red under gold page edges
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, this Bible returns 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.
This Longprimer Thinline 43 edition is printed in the Netherlands by Royal Jongbloed, and bound in the UK in Purple Highland goatskin with a generous semi-yapp and red under gold page edges, leather-lined in crimson red with gilt line inside, three purple ribbon markers, with Allan presentation pages and family record, dictionary of proper names, subject index, concordance, 32 pages of lined writing paper and 16 pages of Oxford Bible maps.
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 * Red under gold 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
