Pilgrim
Puritanboard Commissioner
I asked my parents for a "real" bible of my own for my birthday when I was 12, having used a GNFMM or whatever was around as a "hand me down" until then. My father got me a B.B. Kirkbride bound, sewn, maroon "corinthian" leather, red letter KJV Thompson chain. I used that bible daily until Hurricane Katrina got it, so it must have been right at 30 years old, completely limp from use, but with no loose pages, cracks in the boards, etc. I have never seen a better binding on a bible, and still long for all the notes from my childhood and college, when I questioned everything, and tried to jot all the answers in the margins. I would trade several R.L. Allans to have that old Thompson chain again.
So they made Bibles with fine Corinthian leather too?
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