1) When you first became a Christian, wasn't there a thrill about owning your very own Bible? Wasn't there something in you that said, "This is my greatest possession"?
2) Didn't that first love, that zeal you had at the first, begin to lag as you bought one bible after another only to see them deteriorate after five or ten years of use? Isn't it true that Bibles are just commodities to you now?
My how low you have become.
Those of you who have put up with leather bibles that come apart at the seams need to wake up and . . . smell the bibles that don't do that. It is a well-known fact that there are a good many bibles today that fancy themselves as "premier editions," when in fact their binding looks like it was assembled by Mrs. Granger's third grade class. For those of you who are interested, it is acknowledged by Bible collectors that the very best Bibles in the world are produced by a company called R. L. Allan and Sons out of Scotland. They have recently put out an ESV in Highland Goatskin that is supposed to be amazing.
Their bibles are distributed through this website www.bibles-direct.com
In second place, although some would say first place, comes Cambridge Bibles. Cambridge has been considered the best Bible maker in the world for many, many years, but Allan has not be as widely known. Cambridge is now offering a semi-compact edition of the ESV called a Pitt-Minion edition. This is a type-setting that was developed many years ago that was designed to be small and very readable. Whereas the Allan Bible is basically the same type-setting as the Crossway ESV Reference Bible, the Pitt-Minion is truly unique. Cambridge Bibles are distrubted in the US by Baker Book House through www.CambridgeBibles.com.
You have the Allan ESV in Tan Goatskin above, and several colors of Goatskin Pitt-Minion ESV's below.
You may be wondering, "Devin, where did you become so savvy about Bibles?" I learned it all on my new favorite blog, Bible Design and Binding, by J. Mark Bertrand.
More of you are probably wondering, "Devin, how much does a Bible like this cost?" You can often find them on eBay for less than $100, but the Bibles I have described here cost about $130 new.
I want to see all of you in the pew with one soon--and can you mention it to my wife before Christmas?
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