My Daily Reader, An Oxford Brevier Clarendon with Apocrypha

A review of the Anglican Parishes Association combination 1928 American Book of Common Prayer and Oxford Brevier Clarendon with Apocryphya (ISBN 9780977714827). The translation is the King James Version (KJV). This volume, containing the 66 books of the Protestant canon along with the KJV Apocrypha, is bound in black genuine leather. The words of Christ are in black.

This edition may be purchased here: https://anglican-parishes-association...

The Biblical text is printed in two 43 mm wide columns, each verse constituting a separate paragraph, with page-top headings in italics and chapter summaries at the beginning of each chapter. Cross references and text and translation notes appear between the two columns. Cross references are present in the Apocryphal section, but cross references to the Apocryphal works are minimal to nonexistent.

The Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books are placed in a separate section between the Old and New Testaments. The KJV Apocrypha contains more material than is usually printed in Roman Catholic Bibles.

The 8 point text is printed boldly with a reasonable degree of uniformity. Unhappily, the print is sometimes slightly blurred, and broken characters are not hard to find. Center-column cross references are in a roughly 6 point font.

The volume is small but thick, measuring 7 3/8 x 4 7/8 x 2 inches in dimensions. Margins are narrow: The inner margin, in particular, is so narrow that the text disappears into the gutter.

Book introductions are not included. There is no concordance, and there are no maps. The Epistle Dedicatory is present, but not the Translators to the Reader.

The roughly 32 gsm paper is opaque, and show-through (ghosting) is not an issue. The paper is almost white, with a decidedly glossy surface.

The volume is sewn and lies open in Genesis. Page edges are covered in gold.

Six 7 mm wide ribbon markers are provided. Head and tail bands are black and yellow.

The black genuine leather cover features a cross on the front. The construction is paste-off/paste-down, with a coated black paper liner.

The 1928 American Book of Common Prayer is placed at the front of the volume. It is printed darkly and evenly in an approximately 11.5 point font. That font is slightly smaller (~95%) than that in the commonly available Oxford edition of the same work, but larger than that in vest-pocket editions, and larger than that in the Deus Publications edition. (The Deus Publications edition, however, is printed more crisply on better (matte) paper.)

This Anglican Parishes Association edition was printed in United States in 2015. It was shipped to me in an envelope with bubble wrap -- there was no box.


Video contents:

00:00 Introduction
01:40 Page layout
03:49 Center column references
04:26 Text features
05:16 The font and print quality
07:19 Paper
08:21 Liner, head band, ribbons
09:41 The cover
09:59 Sewn binding
10:11 Presentation page, copyright page ...
11:38 Prayer book font comparisons
11:53 The spine
12:25 The Apocrypha
14:19 References in the Apocrypha
15:33 Why so many ribbons?
18:30 The volume lies open
19:09 Closing comments