Publishing standards, much like in the mass-marketed shaving industry, have markedly declined over the last 50 years. Go to any bookstore, including Christian bookstores, and you will find "genuine leather" Bibles that are complete garbage. Rarely will you find a true Smyth-sewn binding. Rarely will you find quality leather - most of it is either bonded (which is the bologne of leather) or it is very stiff and thin cowhide. The pages have significant ghosting, such that you can actually read the text on the opposite page. To add insult to injury, these bibles range from $40-90 and will not last 10 years without falling apart.
Enter R. L. Allan: what Merkur and Old School Gillette is to shaving, an Allan Bible is to a bibliophiles.
Check this out:
and this.....
These are handmade, hand-stitched, Bibles. They feel like melted butter in your hands. The paper is like nothing on the shelf today. They lay open flat from Genesis to Revelation. If taken care of, they will last a lifetime.
On a website of people that appreciate the "finer things," for those of you tired of Bibles that feel cheap and fall apart in a few years, Allan Bibles are worth looking into.
Enter R. L. Allan: what Merkur and Old School Gillette is to shaving, an Allan Bible is to a bibliophiles.
Check this out:
and this.....
These are handmade, hand-stitched, Bibles. They feel like melted butter in your hands. The paper is like nothing on the shelf today. They lay open flat from Genesis to Revelation. If taken care of, they will last a lifetime.
On a website of people that appreciate the "finer things," for those of you tired of Bibles that feel cheap and fall apart in a few years, Allan Bibles are worth looking into.
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