A review of Thomas Nelson's King James Version (KJV) Compact Center-Column Reference Bible. This volume, containing the 66 books of the Protestant canon, is bound in black genuine leather (ISBN 9781400333189, Style# 8576BK, Library of Congress Control Number: 2022947111). The words of Christ are in red. This edition was printed in India.
The text is printed in two 64 mm wide columns, broken into individual verses, with in-text headings and chapter numbers printed in black. The in-text headings are sometimes identify parallel or related passages.
Approximately 43,000 cross reference are placed in the center column, along with translation notes designed to assist the reader with older English vocabulary used in the KJV. The cross references and translation notes are printed in a 6 to 7 point font.
The 8 point Comfort Print text is printed crisply in dark ink, though those used to the bolder print in the Cambridge Cameo or the Oxford Brevier Clarendon may consider it too thin. Line spacing is adequate. Variations in print darkness (fading) are occasional and not severe. The text is usually line matched, though it is possible to locate pages on which the print from the two sides of a given page is offset vertically.
The volume is small, measuring 7 7/8 x 5 1/2 x 1.33 inches in dimensions. Margins are narrow: The outer margin is between 10 and 12 mm wide.
Book introductions are not included, but a 115 page concordance appears in the back of the volume. Printed in an 7 to 7.5 point font in two columns, the concordance lists about 1400 key words.
The roughly 32 gsm paper is sufficiently opaque, and show-through (ghosting) is not an issue. The paper is almost white, with a pink tinge. The paper used on Nelson editions printed in India seems to have less gloss on the surface than those printed in China or South Korea.
The volume is sewn but does not lie open in Genesis. Page edges are covered in gold.
Two 10 mm wide ribbon markers are provided, one black, one red. They are long enough to be useful. Head and tail bands are black.
The soft, black genuine leather cover features a line of stitching along the edge and five raised hubs. The construction is paste-off/paste-down, with a coated paper liner.
Seven color maps are located in the back. They are printed on heavy, matte paper. The maps stay out of the gutter, so no geography is lost to the binding.
This edition contains the "Epistle Dedicatory," but the "Translators to the Reader" is absent. The KJV text printed in this volume is not a "Pure Cambridge Edition."
Video contents:
00:00 Introduction
02:34 Page layout
03:45 The text sometimes is not line-matched
04:03 Pronouns, the Tetragrammaton, red letters, italics ...
04:52 Headings
05:15 The font in the text
05:48 Print non-uniformity
06:09 References and translation notes
06:48 More on layout
07:31 Paper
08:32 Reading plan and prayers
09:01 The concordance and color maps
09:54 Liner, head band, ribbons
10:36 The cover
11:00 Sewn binding
11:11 It does not lie open in Genesis
11:28 Presentation, title, and copyright pages
12:12 Table of Contents and Epistle Dedicatory
12:39 How To Use This Reference Bible
13:19 Translation notes
13:44 Throughly vs thoroughly
14:18 Pure Cambridge edition?
14:54 The KJV as a translation
16:51 Font comparisons
17:21 Summary
9 июл 2024
