The Allan NRSV1 Classic Reference Edition with Apocrypha

A review of the R.L. Allan New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Classic Reference Edition with Apocrypha, edge-lined in black highland goatskin with a blue leather liner. Rather than art-gilt page edges, this Bible "features unique antiquarian-style hand-speckled page edges with red underlay and blue, gold and pearlescent speckles".

In this Anglicized edition, pages are formatted in two columns, with text broken into paragraphs. References are in a narrow center column. The font is 8.5 points in height, while the line spacing is 10 points. The words of Christ are in black. The binding is sewn, and the Bible lies flat in Genesis. The paper weight is 36 grams per square meter (gsm).

In this video, I compare the Allan NRSV1 to the Cambridge NRSV Reference Edition with Apocrypha.

Detailed Contents

00:00 Details (dimensions, margins, layout, font …) four charts
00:38 Dimensions compared to the Allan ESV1
01:07 Dimensions compared to a hardback Cambridge NRSV Reference Edition with Apocrypha
01:35 A glance at the box
01:51 Measurements (including yapp)
02:20 Page layout
02:54 Page dimensions
03:28 Margins
04:04 The font in the text
04:52 The text is line-matched
05:07 The center-column references
05:30 The translation notes at page bottom
05:38 Paper qualities
06:23 Print non-uniformity (how the printed characters vary in darkness)
08:32 The words of Christ are in black ink!
09:38 Blank pages after the book of Revelation
09:47 The Oxford maps
10:10 The map index
10:43 The lined paper in the back
11:02 The edge-lined construction
11:12 The cover’s semi-yapp style
11:25 The leather liner, which states that the Bible was bound by Charfleet
12:21 The three Navy blue ribbon markers, plus the white head and tail bands
12:33 The unique antiquarian-style hand-speckled page edges with red underlay and blue, gold and pearlescent speckles
13:16 The text block is not quite centered in the cover
14:02 The presentation and family records pages
14:28 The Bible has only four lines of stitching, but holes for five
15:51 The title pages – the Bible was printed by SPCK in the UK
16:49 The table of contents
17:32 The preface to the NRSV and the preface to its Anglicized edition
18:32 A close-up look at the font
19:30 The font compared to that in the Cambridge NRSV Reference Edition with Apocrypha
20:15 Additional contrasts between the Allan NRSV1 and the Cambridge NRSV Reference Edition with Apocrypha
21:00 The font compared to that in the New Oxford Annotated Bible in the NRSV, 5th Edition
21:52 The font compared to that in the ESV Classic Reference Edition (Allan ESV1)
22:40 The corner work compared to that in my circa 2011 Allan ESV1
23:51 The text drops away into the gutter, but not as badly as in my hardback copy of the Cambridge NRSV Reference Edition with Apocrypha
25:05 The Deuterocanonical/Apocryphal books included – the Allan and Cambridge Bibles have the same books and fragments of books
26:00 More Allan and Cambridge NRSV contrasts – maps, lined paper, glossary, table of weights and measures
27:00 The summary
27:32 How literal is the NRSV? A look at my translation continuum chart
29:14 The Allan NRSV1 is Anglicized; the Cambridge NRSV Reference Edition with Apocrypha is not
30:17 End