Allan 1863 Longprimer Sovereign Desk Edition Purple Highland Goatskin FIRST EDITION > KJV 1863 P (Out of Stock)
Allan 1863 Longprimer Sovereign Desk Edition Purple Highland Goatskin FIRST EDITION
Product Code
KJV 1863 P (Out of Stock)
Product Description
Final handful of copies discounted from £400 (pounds sterling) to £250 (pounds sterling) for creased pages (mostly just in the margins) and a little excess ink in the cartridge pages in the front and back of the Bible. Text unaffected in all cases.
This handsome new edition of the KJV Longprimer Sovereign, one of only a hundred made, is bound in Purple Highland Goatskin over hard boards with gold embossing and raised spine bands, with antiquarian style page edges in purple with green, gold and pearlescent speckles. Presented in a dark green cloth-covered clamshell box, exclusively designed and handmade for R L Allan.
Presented in a handmade Solander clamshell presentation box covered in dark green cloth with ‘Allan 1863’ embossed logo and lined in contrasting purple, made by hand exclusively for R.L. Allan. The Solander box was invented by Swedish botanist Daniel Solander during the late 1700s while working at the British Museum, and they were used by him when travelling with Captain James Cook on his voyage of discovery to Australia and New Zealand.
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.
The Longprimer Sovereign edition retains the same clear type as the standard Longprimer but is printed on a 40gsm writable Bible paper with the highest levels of opacity, and increased margins (one inch on outside and bottom edges) to show the text block off to greatest effect and further enhance the reading experience.
Printed on best quality, highly opaque 40gsm writable India Paper * Large, clear black letter type * 100,000 centre column chain references with dates above * Three purple ribbon markers * Speckled page edges in purple underlay with green, gold and pearlescent speckles * 16 pages of full colour Oxford Bible maps * Concordance, subject index and dictionary of proper names * Clamshell Solander cloth-covered box with ‘Allan 1863’ embossing * Published exclusively by R L Allan * Only 100 copies made
Page size: 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches (234 x 165mm)
Margins: 1 inch outer and bottom margins
Spine width: 2 inch (50mm) thick
Type size: 10/11pt
Boxed weight: 5 lbs 1 oz / 2.3 kg
