This rustic pull-up leather wrap cover is a study in contrasts -- the fine and elegant gilt-edged text wrapped in a very rugged, distressed pull-up leather binding. I left the edge of the flap raw to add to the ancient look.
Choose either THE ILLUMINATED FAMILY BIBLE (KJV) represented in the second piucture below OR The CATHOLIC FAMILY BIBLE(NAB) represented in the third picture below:
1. ILLUMINATED FAMILY BIBLE has hundreds of gorgeous Renaissance paintings. It is 8 3/8 x 11 1/4 inches, has 875 smooth ivory pages with gilt edges, and has numerous illuminations painted by Renaissance masters. Each page has decorative borders, column dividers, and illuminated and historiated initial capitals. These are decorated with the delicate vines and fanciful images that only great medieval scribes and illuminators could invent! It has 12 pages for Family records - births, marriages deaths. Click here for pictures of the ILLUMINATED FAMILY BIBLE
2. CATHOLIC FAMILY BIBLE The New American Bible published by Catholic Bible Publishers with Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur, 1970. It includes pictures of the Vatican and its treasures, Pope Benedict VI, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, illuminated pages for marriages, the family tree, husband and wife's geneologies, births, a beautiful New Testament with 14 pages of full color paintings of the masters, a gorgeous Life of the Blessed Virgin with the story of the Rosary and other beautiful Marian prayers with 7 pages of full color paintings of the masters, and a Catholic Encyclopedic Dictionary and Biblical Reference guide. It has 1250 pages; words of Christ in red; Pope Paul VI's Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation of 1965, an introduction to the Bible, a Harmony of the Gospels, and Synchronous History of the nations. 8 3/4 x 11 3/4 x 2 14 inches, gilt edges. Click here for pictures of CATHOLIC FAMILY BIBLE
